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 Regional Research Laboratory (RRL), Jorhat scientists have made a major breakthrough in the production of 16 dehydropregneolene acetate in an environment friendly manner, stated a press release issued from Jorhat.
British researchers have found that magnetic fields reduce the amount of seaweed fouling underwater surfaces. This could help develop an environment friendly antifouling system which is a big problem for ships and underwater structures such as oil platforms. Weeds and barnacles growing on hulls create drag and slow down the …
this is a message for all those who use an umbrella during the rains: ensure it is made of sturdy stuff. In the future, the rain is going to be intesnse. The hot days are sure to be scorching and the cold ones freezing. The extremes of climate are poised …
gaur, an endangered ox-like animal, native to Southeast Asia and India, was successfully cloned, making it the first endangered species to be cloned. But the cloned animal, named Noah, succumbed to clostridial enteritis, a bacterial infection that is almost universally fatal to infected newborn animals. Gaur is brown or black …
A new computerised mapping and recording system should help water companies and waste management contractors to meet their legal obligations when spreading biosolids on land.Designed for practical management of biosolid applications, 'Enhance' uses a central, office-based recording system combined with a computerised set of Ordnance Survey maps showing fields and …
Kansai Electric Power Co. has developed a moderately efficient way to recover carbon dioxide from exhaust gas in a project conducted jointly with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.
Lena Ma of the University of Florida and her colleagues have shown that the Chinese brake fern has a near-insatiable appetite for arsenic. It could thus be used to help clean up spoil heaps contaminated with this unpleasant element.
Water could be the secret of disposing of waste efficiently, according to researchers at Ohio State University in the US. Landfill rubbish sites are normally kept dry but this slows the breakdown of materials, the researchers found.
A fern that eats arsenic could help to clean up industrial, mining and agricultural sites polluted with the poisonous metal, American scientists said on Wednesday.The fern, Pteris vittata, is easy to grow, likes a sunny environment and soaks up arsenic from the soil quickly and efficiently.
the sea squirt, a marine animal that looks like grapes, is being cultured to provide treatment for cancer. It contains ecteinascidin-743, the compound being tested as an anticancer agent. Besides other aquatic regions, the sea squirt is also found in the Indian Ocean. Its population is too small to meet …
new evidence suggests that larvae of fish that inhabit coral reefs do not get scattered and join other communities, as previously believed. They return to the reefs where they were born. Earlier, marine biologists believed that larvae got scattered by oceanic currents to other shores, settling and mating in other …
ever wondered why penguins strut in that peculiar fashion? Is it cumbersome for the birds? Research says rocking from side to side is the most efficient way for the birds to move, given their short legs. Conserving energy is vital as the birds have to walk more than 100 kilometre …
The water you drink could be a concoction of sex hormones, sunscreen agents, antiseptics, painkillers, and antiinflammatory and antibiotic drugs, among other things. This comes out from studies conducted in Germany, Canada and the us. Drugs and personal care products excreted or washed off our bodies are finding their way …
Air pollution causes a decrease in tropical rainfall. The US National Aeronautical and Space Administration (nasa) has discovered an important link between air pollution and rainfall, reports the United Press International. "The concentration of pollution particles redistribute the water inside the clouds into numerous small droplets that are too small …
as a result of climate change, uk may have to bear the brunt of as many as twelve floods a year. This would be four times the annual average a century ago, and double the present annual average of six, declared the National Flood Warning Centre of the of the …
wide variations of nitrous oxide (n2o) emissions over varying areas and time periods make estimation a tough proposition. A study published in Current Science (Vol 79, No 10) says n2o emissions from soils used for different crops and in different seasons in India can have wide variations. n2o is a …
Researchers from the University of Toronto have been studying algae inanother lake, in the Arctic, but with a very different goal in mind. They were trying to see if the lake could clean itself up after years of having raw sewage dumped into it.For nearly 50 years, until 1998, sewage …
Stirring things up allows the disadvantaged to survive in watery ecosystems. Species that might otherwise be eradicated by those more advantaged can beat the odds, thanks to turbulence, researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This effect might even explain how a diversity of primitive replicating …
