Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
at least nine animals died and many sea lions, giant tortoises, colourful blue-footed boobie birds and other pelicans were affected due to an oilspill near Galapagos, an archipelago straddling the equator 1,000 km west of Ecuador. The accident happened when a vessel, Jessica, ran aground after hitting rocks on January …
A recent massive oil and fertiliser spill off Sri Lanka's southern coast has triggered a grave ecological and humanitarian crisis. "The pollutants have spread over an area of eight square kilometres along the coastline. This has threatened the marine life. Every day fisherfolk remove several tonnes of dead fish from …
More than half of the total African penguin population, which was on the verge of dying, were saved due to the efforts of thousands of people. The penguins of the Dassen Island and the Robben Island, had faced a threat of extinction when oil from a sunken ship had leaked …
Continuos oil slicks and coastal water pollution off the Chittagong coast of Bangladesh are reported to have killed 160 species of rare fishes and aquatic plants. Research has also indicated that oil spills are affecting the reproductive cycle of certain species. Oil spills from tankers cruising through the Bay of …
An oil spill of about 100 litres of crude oil has been reported from one of the refineries of Petrobras, Brazil's oil giant. The spill is spread over an area of 2 square kilometres, off the coast of northeastern Ceara state. Petrobras officials are trying to remove the oil stain …
The leakage of four million litres of crude oil from a refinery operated by state-owned Petrobras Limited has resulted in Brazil's worst enviornmental disaster in 26 years. The oil spill has contaminated the Iguacu river and endangered its acquatic life. Jose Sarney Filho, environmental minister has warned Petrobras to control …
the us department of justice has ordered a shipping company to pay compen-sation for an oil spill, which killed millions of lobsters and other wildlife of the Block Island Sound, near Rhode Island, usa . The department has directed Eklof Marine Corporation ( emc ) to pay us $16 million, …
The Madras High Court has ordered the Central Ground Water Board to conduct a scientific study on the groundwater in Erode area of Tamil Nadu within two months. It has also directed the Tamil Nadu state Pollution Control Board to take appropriate action depending on the findings. The decision was …
GARBAGE and oil have choked up the source of Huangpu River in south China. This is bad news for Shanghai, which draws about 80 per cent of its drinking water from the Huangpu. According to state officials, the river water is unsuitable for human consumption. The greatest source of contamination …
AFTER Rachel Carson's passionate polemic Silent Spring was published in 1962, environmentalism in the West assumed urgency and a sense of purpose. The pervasive popularity of this particular philosophy has transformed Western society through legislation, popular pressure, and individual initiatives. Although transparent and virtually inflexible procedures for safeguarding the environment …
Scientists in the US have developed a new model of fire boom which can be used to control fire in an oil spill. It is now a common practice to use fire booms to encircle oil spills and burn them. It is estimated that almost 95 per cent of oil …
Scientists in the UK claim to have developed a liquid that can replace the traditional methods of cleaning up the sea after an oil spill. Stephen Mudge, a marine scientist at the School of Ocean Sciences at the University of Wales, UK, and his team has found that biodiesel, a …
as france pressed on with mopping-up operations to cleanse parts of its Atlantic coastline polluted by an oil spill recently, a Dutch orinthologist said that oil from the sunken tanker Erika may contain cancer-causing additives. French president Jacques Chiraq, who toured the area along the coast which was badly damaged …
on december 13, Erika, a 25-year-old tanker carrying over 30,000 tonnes of TotalFina crude broke into two and sank just south of the English Channel. The massive oil slick spread along 500 km of the French coast. For over three weeks after the incident, the company, French oil giant TotalFina, …
Pakistan federal minister for environment, local government and rural development, Umar Asghar Khan, has said that an emergency response system should be developed in the Port Qasim Area (PQA) to check incidents of oil spillage in the future. The PQA, Maritime Security Agency (MSA), Karachi Port Trust (KPT), Pakistan Environment …
the world's second-largest passenger cruise line the Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd has been fined us $6.5 million for dumping oily bilge water and other pollutants into Alaskan waters. "What happened is inexcusable. The company should have been able to avoid such an accident,' ruled John Sedwick, a us district court …
about 10 tonnes of heating oil spilled into the Neva River after a tanker ran aground in St Petersburg. Fortunately, there was no immediate threat to drinking water or the environment, officials said. "We are talking about a spill of about 10 tonnes. No more than that,' Andrei Alyabiev, local …
the European Union (eu) will grant Syria us $406,200 to help the country protect its territorial seas and coasts from accidental oil pollution, an eu official said recently. He said the grant, part of the eu 's Life Third Countries (ltc) programme for 1999, will be implemented by the Regional …
iron powder and magnets may come to the rescue of birds caught in oil spills. John Orbell and his colleagues at the Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, said the iron is sprinkled on the affected areas of the birds and combing the feathers with a magnet removes oil …
About 110,000 litres (24,200 gallons) of diesel oil was spilled after two tankers collided near southern Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, an official from the city's environment department said. The accident took place 500 metres from the Nha Be Petroleum Storage Depot. "About 110,000 litres of diesel spilled into …
