Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
The adverse effects of climate change will be felt more in the South than the North. If preference for fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas is not curbed, developing nations will have to bear the brunt of an environmental catastrophe. While the developed nations of the Organisation for Economic …
If only 16 per cent of the world's population behaved in a more responsible manner, many environmental problems would have been resolved. Consider this. In 1997, the 29 industrialised member-nations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( oecd ) contributed 53.2 per cent of the total carbon dioxide …
There is a continuing preference for energy sources like coal, oil and gas among the industrialised nations. This trend persists against the use of more environment-friendly energy sources like geothermal, solar, hydro and combustible renewables and waste. Even today, despite the environmental concerns expressed worldwide, the total primary energy supply …
the German capital of Berlin is today showing what the future of energy may look like. When the German government moved from Bonn to Berlin in 1991, it was proposed that solar power should be featured in the form of photovolataic ( pv ) facades in the governmental quarter. One …
a study conducted by the Coimbatore-based psg Science and Technology Entrepreneurial Park ( psgstep ) has said that the projected Ninth Five Year Plan target of 1,000 mw wind energy would fall short by around 600 mw, largely due to withdrawal of tax benefits by the government. It suggests the …
In the fight against increasing pollution from vehicular emissions, new alternatives to fossil fuels have emerged. Till recently diesel was considered an environment-friendly fuel. However, researchers have now proved that diesel is a masked killer. New mediums like fuel cells and compressed natural gas are the energy sources of the …
air quality levels this summer were some of the worst this decade in several eastern states of the us , according to the Environmental Protection Agency ( epa) . "It's not the worst on record, but far from what it should be to ensure public safety,' said Carol Browner, epa …
for the first time in five years, global carbon emissions from combustion of fossil fuels declined in 1998, according to new estimates released by the us -based Worldwatch Institute. The emission rate fell by 0.5 per cent, which in real terms means around 6.32 billion tonnes. Interestingly, this decline took …
HYBRID VEHICLE: Nissan Motor Company Limited of Tokyo said that it aimed to start sales of gasoline-electric hybrid cars in Japan at the beginning of the year 2000. The company's first hybrid vehicle is based on its Tino wagon, which was introduced in the Japanese market December of 1998. It …
as early as the ninth century, "sea coales', found in the northeast coast of England, were burned as fuel. Soon the air was reeking of dirty fumes, making it intolerable to breathe in London. A few centuries later, the then monarch of England, King Edward I (1272-1307), banned its use …
A study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( noaa ) shows that 1998 was likely to be the warmest year in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 1,200 years. Scientists also believe that the heat wave was due to carbon dioxide and emissions from the burning of fossil …
THE price of fuel oil has always played a major role in shaping global events in the 20th Century. Many would like to link the collapse of the communist bloc to the big tumble that the price of oil took in 1984. A fall therefore in the price of oil …
RESEARCHERS have developed a new catalytic process to turn a common industrial chemical into an essential ingredient used in energy efficient alternative fuels. The technique could be the first to make the process economically attractive to chemical companies. Scientists at the US department of energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory claim …
A NEW revolutionary energy process could end up powering cities and industries in the next century, says a team of Australian scientists. The scientists, who conducted a feasibility study, suggested that a hybrid solar fossil fuel system has the potential to produce sustainable amount of power, while emitting very little …
WITHIN 10 years, the world will begin to run out of its principal fuel - oil. We are rapidly approaching the point where global output of oil will begin to contract while the demand for petro-energy products will rise sharply. Oil industry executives and energy planners have reached the consensus …
THE Kyoto Protocol, forged in December 1997, appears only to advocate planting and conserving forests (afforestation and reforestation) in order to create carbon sinks in trees and also in soils. Little is said about using trees and other forms of biomass as an energy source to substitute the use of …
This year is the hottest year since temperature records have been kept. Scientists believe that the Earth is getting warmer because of the build-up of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, produced largely by the burning of fossil fuels. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, an international …
THE Kyoto Protocol is only a first step - that too a timid one - to stabilise the atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to a non-dangerous level. The protocol stipulates GHG reduction of 5.2 per cent in the industrialised world. As relevant reductions have already been achieved through the economic …
Taking the lead Developing countries must take the lead in proposing a system of entitlements, and North-South trading, which is both ecologically effective and socially just THE KEY ISSUES PREVENTlNG, global warming raises a very serious question for the world"s nations. It means putting a cap or a limit on …
scientists in Australia have recently developed a revolutionary new system that could reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 10 per cent. The system, the developers claim, converts tree and wood residues into electricity. Wood, the source of renewable energy for this system, is derived from residues …
