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 …
climate change could could hit food production in the some of the world’s poorest countries and widen the gulf between the industrialised countries and the rest. India could be one of the worst hit. These findings were presented by Mahendra Shah, researcher on land use at the Austria
An unusual, plant-like bacteria capable of a type of photosynthesis is available in far more numbers in the ocean than previously y assumed. The discovery adds a new component to the ocean's carbon cycle, which is a major contributor to the Earth's carbon cycle on which all life depends. The …
Fireworks that mark public leave the air pollutant ozone according to research conducted at the Jawaharlal Nehru University , in India. Ozone in the lower atmosphere works as a respiratory irritant, a greenhouse gas and a plant toxin. Its production from oxygen in this part of the atmosphere was previously …
Human-made wetlands do not act as good water filters suggests report that connects a restored coastal marsh in California, USA, with the contamination of a nearby beach. Persistently high levels of faecal bacteria forced the temporary closure of Huntington Beach in southern California in 1999 and led to a hunt …
forests and farmlands cannot be relied on to soak up greenhouse gases, says a recent report released by the uk Royal Science Society. It says the cuts in emissions are the only long-term way to reduce global warming over long-periods. The report says too little is known of the science …
each year, hatcheries release millions of chinook into the River Columbia in the us in a bid by state game managers to save wild stocks of this salmon. The fish there is so beleaguered that many of its populations, threatened with extinction, are protected under the us Endangered Species Act. …
studying a half-metre-long stalagmite recovered from a now submerged cave in the Bahamas has shown that there were dramatic changes in the amount of radioactive carbon swirling around in the Earth's atmosphere during the last Ice Age. The changes were far greater than previously believed. The findings serve a warning …
Researchers at Newcastle University, UK have found that global warming is indirectly causing damage to highways in Iceland. Metallic studs and chains on tyres of vehicles are intended to increase grip on snow-covered roads. As a result of global warming the snow now thaws for part of the winter, allowing …
Dust blown from Africa not only produces striking sunsets in Florida, usa, but also carries with it lethal stowaway bacteria and fungi. The dust plumes begin their trans-Atlantic journey from the topsoil of the Sahara Desert. The dust is transported into the atmosphere and crosses the Atlantic Ocean to reach …
Norwegian researchers believe that dumping carbon dioxide in the ocean could lock up the greenhouse gas for centuries. The natural process of carbon dioxide dissol-ving into the surface of the ocean can be hastened by injecting the gas into deep waters. Researchers from the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, …
Engineers at Purdue University and NASA have developed a new technique for monitoring the environment by using routine signals that already are being beamed to Earth by global positioning systems. Conventional techniques for gathering information about global climate change and other environmental data require systems that have their own transmitters …
the large-scale conversion of forests to croplands in the midwestern usa over the last 100 years has led to a measurable cooling of the region's climate, shows the study conducted by Gordon Bonan, researcher at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research ( ncar ), in the us . The new …
tiny silverleaf whiteflies are resisting the latest crop of pesticides in fields of melons and peppers in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, us . Tong-Xian Liu, researcher at the Texas a&m; University, in the us , and his assistants, searching for signs of the tiny silverleaf whiteflies say there …
desert dust blown from one part of the world to another can choke rain clouds, cutting rainfall hundreds of kilometres away. This discovery, made with the help of us National Aeronautical and Space Administration ( nasa) satellites, suggests that droughts over arid regions, such as central Africa, are made worse …
the atmosphere can no more cleanse itself naturally as well as it used to. Its ability to do so has weakened over the past decade, possibly because of a change in the mix of pollutants emanating from industrialised nations, report us -based researchers. Atmospheric levels of the atmosphere's main cleansing …
Researchers have found that human-made marshes or wetlands do not work as water filters. Studying why Huntington Beach in Southern California, USA, was closed in 1999, a University of California research team found the persistently high levels of faecal bacteria content to blame. The team found that water from the …
Recent studies suggest that fears of global warming killing the world's coral reefs may be misplaced. Reef-building corals contain pigmented algae that provide the food for corals in return for shelter. The corals terminate the partnership when there are slight changes in light or temperature. Andrew Baker of the New …
A previously unknown virus could be contributing to the global decline in number of marine mammals. Studies were conducted by on declining populations of southern elephant seals of Macquarie Island, 2,000 km south of mainland Australia. The study revealed that lice that infect the seals carry a type of virus …
