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 …
The cherry blossoms bloom earlier than ever in Japan, evidence that climate change has already taken a foothold in Japan is one proof of global warming having affected the country says Japanese environment ministry working group studying the effects of global warming on Japan. The group, headed by Shuzo Nishioka, …
An organic, non-toxic, non-leaching and sustainably-produced absorbent will hit the UK market in the next month. The product, aptly named Supazorb, soaks up hydrocarbons and other noxious chemicals and breaks them down to nothing more than carbon dioxide and water. And, unlike similar products, the natural micro-organisms, that form part …
Arsenic - contaminated well water could be made safe to drink simply by stirring it up with the right sort of rock. Researchers of the Androscogging Valley Environmental Center in Lewiston, Maine, report that clays from the Zimapan district, north of Mexico city, contain Kaolinite and illite-minerals that will absorb …
one can't use these salts for cooking, but, with chemical structures similar to table salt, ionic salts could be useful in clearing environmental pollution. Ionic salts, present in liquid form, characterised by low melting temperatures, may one day become the environment-friendly replacement for some of the noxious solvents used by …
scientists at the us -based Scripps Research Institute have developed a screening method, similar to a home pregnancy test, that can detect mercury contamination in fish. Inventors of the device say that the method is fast and inexpensive. Mercury contamination in fish is a serious health concern, especially for children …
the researchers in us have uncovered evidence of a new route by which dangerous antibiotic-resistance genes can spread. The bacteria in the soil and groundwater beneath farms seem to be acquiring tetracycline-resistant genes from bacteria originating in pig guts. Once transferred, the resistance genes can persist in the hardier soil …
Environmental experts have criticised the US navy for its plant to use low frequency active (LFA) sonar widely used around the world. The navy's application is under the review of the US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Experts say the sonar, emits low frequency sounds at high decibel levels to …
An inherited evolutionary change in the current human population is leading the women to have their first child at an early age. A team of British, Australian and American scientists have shown the profound effect of the genetic and social factors on the timing of human reproduction. Research reveals that …
The protective ozone layer over the North Pole appears to have stabilised after years of thinning UN weather experts report. But the gain may be temporary. Scientists from the World Meteorological Organization say the recovery may be attributed to a warmer than usual winter and the current peak in the …
greenhouse gas emissions have caused the world's oceans to heat up significantly over the last 50 years, according to two latest studies. The Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans have collectively warmed an average of 0.06
A team of five employees representing the Quality Circle Group of the Naval Dockyard here have achieved a breakthrough by designing and developing a system to effectively combat vehicular pollution. According to an official release on Wednesday the team, led by high skilled mechanic grade-I M Rama Rao, modified the …
After blasting away continuously for decades, the huge coke manufacturing ovens at Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge site in Dearborn, Mich., left behind 12 hectares of land tainted with polyaromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHS-carcinogens that persist in the soil indefinitely. Ford wants to revamp the site as a showcase for green …
Global warming could weaken the ice-soil mixture called permafrost in areas surrounding the Arctic Circle, causing damage to buildings, pipelines and electricity generating stations, according to a study done at University of Delaware, USA. Large cities in Siberia and smaller ones in Alaska and Canada run the risk of being …
A study sponsored by the biotech giant Monsanto and Zeneca's Ag products Inc., conducted over a 10 year period, has shown that genetically modified crops do not survive for longer periods than their conventional partners. The study had a narrow focus
Engineers in Singapore and China have developed audio beams that will help reduce noise pollution due to high decibel sound. The audio beam can focus a narrow beam of sound, just like a beam of light. Only the person within the beam area can hear the sound,' says Zhang Ming, …
the Cold War may be over, but researchers at Hanford nuclear reservation in usa , continue to battle another kind of Russian invaders: radioactive tumbleweeds. Russian thistle has become a menace in the windswept desert of south-central Washington in the us . Russian thistle, a non-native species in the us …
instead of people digging and dumping waste, an army of microorganisms could soon be cleaning up more than 200,000 hectares of contaminated industrial sites in the uk . The uk government has launched a us $21.4 million research program, which will use microorganisms and bacteria to reverse the damage done …
Raising animals for food on a large scale is not the most environmentally friendly of activities. A major problem is phosphorous pollution, which occurs because animals like chickens and pigs cannot make efficient use of the naturally occurring phosphates in feed grains (instead, inorganic phosphates must be added to feed …
Shah Jahanian, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Temple Univeristy, and Hossein Rostami, assistant professor of mathematics and science of Philadelphia University, have been using fly ash, sand, and activating chemicals to create reactive barriers, which can either change or destroy contaminants.
