Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
All serious butterfly collectors remember their first gynandromorph: a butterfly with a colour and pattern that are distinctly male on one wing and female on the other. Seeing one sparks wonder and curiosity. For biologist Nipam H. Patel, the sighting offered a possible answer to a question he had been …
Antarctica is melting more than six times faster than it did in the 1980s, a new study shows. Scientists used aerial photographs, satellite measurements and computer models to track how fast the southern-most continent has been melting since 1979 in 176 individual basins. They found the ice loss to be …
During the upcoming Char Dham yatra, the Uttarakhand government will ensure the ban on the use of plastic and thermacol on the route is strictly enforced. Garhwal Commissioner and Uttarakhand Tourism Secretary Dilip Jawalkar said that the onus will be on the district administration to ensure the ban on plastic …
While seminars, films and talks on environmental science are part of the week long fair, the focus on ancient Indian culture, particularly, as sketched out in Sanskrit and Vedic literature is hard to miss. The afternoon session of the second day at the World Book Fair in Pragati Maidan was …
Meghalaya politicians have usually been sympathetic towards the miners’ ever since mining was banned in the State, but Deputy Chief Minister RC Laloo has publicly stood for environment instead of unscientific mining. Mining ban was imposed by National Green Tribunal (NGT) in April 2014 because these were carried out unscientifically …
VADODARA: After getting a missive from University Grants Commission (UGC), MS University has decided to offer environmental science course to students of all its faculties. It was recently that UGC had sent a missive to all the universities in the country asking them to ensure that environmental science was taught …
This is not the first time a minister has come forward to highlight the benefits of environment-friendly idols. Last year in an address to the nation on Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi too urged people to use natural clay idols. With just a few days to Ganesh Chaturthi, …
Environment and science exhibition to be an eye-opener for MPs. New Delhi: For a period of two weeks, MPs will get an opportunity to refine themselves as catalysts of scientific and environmental change in their constituencies. On offer will be demos and literature on indigenous eco-friendly, people-centric technologies that they …
Nagpur: Environment assumes much importance in the fast developing world but studies on the topic are hardly taken seriously. Activists and environment officers are trained to protect Mother Nature as well as keep growth on track, but their numbers are far to less given the scale of development taking place …
Without major efforts to rebuild Louisiana’s wetlands, particularly in the westernmost part of the state, there is little chance that the coast will be able to withstand the accelerating rate of sea-level rise, a new Tulane University study concludes. The study by researchers in Tulane’s Department of Earth and Environmental …
• The source of the world’s biggest underwater pool of the powerful greenhouse gas methane has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean by a team of scientists. • The discovery could have implications for humans’ use of the sea as any disturbance could send large amounts of the gas into …
A new study on how ocean currents transport floating marine debris is helping to explain how garbage patches form in the world’s oceans. Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and colleagues developed a mathematical model that simulates the motion of small spherical …
A Washington State University study of the chemistry of technetium-99 has improved understanding of the challenging nuclear waste and could lead to better cleanup methods. The work is reported in the journal Inorganic Chemistry. It was led by John McCloy, associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, …
Forests around the world are at risk of death due to widespread drought, University of Stirling researchers have found. An analysis, published in the journal Ecology Letters, suggests that forests are at risk globally from the increased frequency and severity of droughts. The study found a similar response in trees …
The world's first ink made with a pigment captured from air pollution has gone on sale this week, in the latest demonstration of the creative solutions artists and designers are employing to clean-up pollution hotspots around the world. Created by a team of scientists at Graviky Labs, a spin-off from …
Some 14,000 km from Japan, a 33-member team is researching a wide range of issues on global warming at Showa Station, Japan’s Antarctic research center. A key pursuit in the research is how global warming is affecting the continent, premised on the notion that rising sea temperatures may be causing …
From Wordsworth’s gardens to the south’s white cliffs and salmon rivers in Wales, climate change is wrecking historic sites, finds report. Climate change is already wrecking some of Britain’s most significant sites, from Wordsworth’s gardens in Cumbria to the white cliffs on England’s south coast, according to a new report. …
Light can put active materials into motion and humans can use this movement for development of new programmable materials which can be used for environment protection and deliver pharmaceutical substances, a study said. Light of a certain wavelength can be used to put so-called active materials into motion and control …
Peak Moved To The Southwest After Nepal Temblor: Chinese Study. A devastating earthquake that hit Nepal in April moved Mount Everest three centimetres (just over an inch) to the southwest, but did not change its height, according to Chinese research published on Tuesday . The 7.8-magnitude quake re versed the …
JAIPUR: Career opportunities in the environment science offer research-based work, thrill, adventure and fat pay packages. Over a dozen disciplines related to environment science are being offered by state institutes. At a time when environment issues are hogging the limelight across the globe and countries are pushing for strict laws …
