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 …
Scientists working at the Purdue university in the US, are making progress in perfecting automobiles and portables air-conditioners that use environment-friendly carbon dioxide (CO2) as a refrigerant instead of the conventional, synthetic global-warming and ozone-depleting chemicals - chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) Co2 was the refrigerant of choice during the early 20th century …
In a major breakthrough which would have a far-reaching impact on the development of ceramic industry, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Ahmedabad has developed a technology for converting ceramic scraps into breakable and brittle material for easy grinding into fine powder, which could be easily recycled as raw material …
A catalytic process that could help paper mills save millions of dollars a year by converting a polluting by-product into formaldehyde, a useful product, has been discovered and patented by an engineering professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem. Israel E. Wachs, professor of chemical engineering, says his method, which was …
Latest NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) satellite maps reveal that most of the world's glaciers are shrinking. Rick Wessels of the US Geographical Survey, based in Arizona, compared thousands of satellite images to aerial photographs dating back 20 years and found almost every mountain glacier in Patagonia, the Himalayas, …
French researchers have found that over the past 50 years, the population of emperor penguins ( Aptenodytes forsteri ) in Terre Adelie, which was stable until the mid-1970s, had declined abruptly by 50 per cent in the late 1970s and has stablised since. The researchers say that the penguin population …
Scientists at Southern Illinois University in the US report in the latest issue of the journal Nature that they have discovered two strains of microbes that will digest benzene, the toxic and carcinogenic pollutant used in some types of chemical manufacturing.
Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) is all set to test a micro-organism (bug), developed and evolved from five different strains of bacteria, which could detoxify the 50,000 metric tons of sludge produced at Digboi oil refinery. Digboi is the oldest of the oil refineries and this toxic waste results due …
The Glen Ord Whisky Distillery in Scotland is the first company in the UK to use the first ever high-rate anaerobic granular treatment plant for treating wastewater with small chemical oxygen demand (COD) loads.
Though the scientific consensus says that humans are warming the earth by adding heat-trapping gases to the air, there is continuing uncertainty about the possible cooling influence of clouds. Now a new analysis suggests that human activity is also altering the way some clouds form, possibly intensifying their sun-blocking, planet-cooling …
Italian Researchers discover another mechanism for the formation of atmospheric Nitrous oxide. Summer smog, the ozone hole, the greenhouse effect the complex web of chemical reactions in the atmosphere, which leads to manifold environmental problems, is still not fully cleared up. In a tricky way, a single chemical compound is …
Researchers at the University of Toronto, Canada have been able to predict rises in sea level attributed to global warming. Usually global warming models predict that the poles will warm up quickly, causing sea levels to rise as the ice melts but cannot predict where the rise in sea-level could …
A German food laboratory found traces of potentially dangerous pesticide Dicofol and fungicides Procymidon and Chlorthalonil in six out of 20 random samples of imported strawberries reports Reuters . The samples were from Spain and Italy. All three substances are suspected of being carcinogenic. Dicofol belongs to the same chemical …
A cloud of dust up to 2,000 km long was tracked by scientists at the US National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA) as it left Asia, drifted across the Pacific Ocean, and traversed North America from Alaska to Florida, raining dust and possibly pollutants over the continent. Dust clouds blowing east …
over the past 50 years the population of Antarctic emperor penguins has declined by 50 per cent. And, global warming could be to blame. Christophe Barbraud and Henri Weimerskirch, researchers at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Villers en Bois, France, have shown that an abnormally long warm …
when a non-native species of plant or animal invades, some native species are threatened by the encroachment on their niches. Some loose the battle and go extinct. The time lapse between the introduction of the new species and the extinction of the natives can be so long that the loosing …
