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 …
HYDERABAD: The lessons of National Green Corps (NGC), a successful initiative by the Union ministry of environment and forest (MOEF) and Climate Change are set to be part of the school syllabus in Telangana from the next academic year. “Unlike the previous system which had a separate book on environmental …
The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has issued fresh guidelines for chemical industries and common effluent treatment plants (CETPs). The new guidelines have made it mandatory for industries and CETPs to get an environment audit done by none else but members of an audit team approved by the GPCB. Under …
Union Minister of Power & Coal Piyush Goyal has lauded the efforts of the state government in its efforts to further the power sector in the state particularly with reference to the activities for streamlining the hydropower activities with the intention of making Arunachal Pradesh the oowerhouse of the country. …
Taking potshots at corrupt politicians, Prof U.C. Mishra, director of the Health, Safety and Environment Group, BARC, said that one of the problems facing researchers in India was that politicians used research to make money for themselves which resulted in the research remaining only on paper. Prof Mishra was delivering …
Particulate carbon and fine dust particles cause browning of the marble. Finally, the specific pollutants in the air that are responsible for the discolouration of the white marble of Taj Mahal have been identified. Particulate carbon and fine dust particles that are deposited on the marble are responsible for its …
Research finds 20cm rise since start of 20th century, caused by global warming and the melting of polar ice, is unprecedented. The rise in sea levels seen over the past century is unmatched by any period in the past 6,000 years, according to a lengthy analysis of historical sea level …
This report analyzes Africa's current performance in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) research, as well as future trends. In March 2014 several African governments' ministers agreed on a Joint Call for Action in Kigali to adopt a strategy that uses strategic investments in science and technology to accelerate Africa …
LONDON: Giving up on beef will be more beneficial to the planet than driving cars. Scientists have confirmed that beef's environmental impact significantly that of other meat including chicken and pork with research showing that eating less red meat would be a better way for people to cut carbon emissions …
Berlin: Earthquakes may contribute to global warming by releasing methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, from the ocean floor, according to a new study. An international team of scientists investigated the aftermath of a magnitude 8.1 earthquake that took place in the Northern Arabian Sea in 1945. They postulated that …
Scientists, administrators and other experts have underlined the need for an effective networking of various institutions engaged in research on climate change for a well-coordinated effort to study the reaction of glaciers and in turn the Himalayan river system. A two-day brainstorming workshop on “Snow, Glaciers and the Himalayan River …
Washington: Sulphur dioxide emissions from moderate volcanoes around the world can mask some of the effects of global warming by 25%, a new study has found. A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for clues about why Earth did not warm as much as scientists expected between …
London: The peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro — world’s highest free-standing mountain — may be ice-free as soon as 2060, scientists have warned. Researchers with Nasa’s Earth Observatory, have found that between 1912 and 2011, the mass of ice on the summit of the 19,341ft dormant stratovolcano in Tanzania decreased by …
A Russian team has succeeded in drilling through four kilometres (2.5 miles) of ice to the surface of a mythical subglacial Antarctic lake which could hold as yet unknown life forms, reports said Monday. Lake Vostok is the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica and scientists want to study its eco-system …
Paris: Worldwide carbon emissions are at their highest ever levels,stoking fears of a global temperature rise over the dangerous 2 Celsius threshold,the International Energy Agency announced on Monday. The world economys return to growth in 2010 coincided with a 1.6 gigatonne rise in carbon dioxide emissions,the highest ever recorded jump,the …
An irreversible climate tipping point could occur within the next 20 years as a result of the release of huge quantities of organic carbon locked away as frozen plant matter in the vast permafrost region of the Arctic,scientists have found. Billions of tons of frozen leaves and roots that have …
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Mumbai Even as the Copenhagen Summit on climate change struggles to come up with a solution, agencies in Mumbai have initiated a study to look at ways to reduce carbon footprints in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Mumbai Transformation Support Unit (MTSU) of the All India Institute of Local Self Government …
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