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 …
Australian households and industries could produce their onw clean, green electricity, or draw it from a nearby source, under a new concept for electricity distribution in Australia.CSIRO's Energy Sector plans to establish a Centre for Distributed Energy and Power that will focus on research and development and marketing to support …
Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a new way to map the ocean currents that erode beaches, cost coastal towns millions of dollars in annual property losses, and threaten a tourist industry worth billions. With this new method, one video camera with special software does the same work as …
A coral reef is a large construction project, and while most of the work of reef building is done by the corals themselves (with some help from algae), researchers from the European Oceanological Observatory and an Australian science film company have discovered that a certain marine worm may function as …
forest fragmentation, the world over, is associated with widespread animal extinction, loss of biodiversity and damage to the ecosystem. The two basic ways in which forest fragmentation affects natural biodiversity are, firstly, a reduction in net area of natural habitat available to the animals surviving in the patch. Secondly, in …
british birds are on the verge of extinction due to intensive farming and use of herbicides and pesticides. This was stated in the Annual Breeding Bird Survey, compiled by the British Trust for Ornithology ( bto ), government advisers, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( rspb ) and …
California, USA, is planning to introduce a toilet-to-tap programme to solve the prevailing water shortage problem in the state. The planned project will include a three-year trial period during which about nine million gallons of wastewater will be processed every day at the Donald C Tillman Water Reclamation Plant at …
Minute traces of specially designed greenhouse gases can be used to heat up Mars and make the planet habitable much faster than anyone thought possible. "On the Earth these gases may be pollution, but on Mars they are medicine,' says Chris McKay, who organised a meeting at the National Aeronautics …
global warming over the next century could turn out to be much worse than previously estimated, says the latest report of the uk Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. Even if greenhouse gas ( ghg ) emissions are stabilised (which would require an overnight cut of 60-70 …
Scientists have come up with a finding about the role of commercial ships in long-distance dispersal of micro-organisms including human, plant and animal pathogens. Researchers from the US show that global movement of ballast water, used for the stability of ships since the 19th century, creates a long-distance dispersal mechanism …
The Pakistan meteorological department is all prepared to cause limited artificial rains in Balochistan, the NWFP and Barani areas of Punjab, but is looking for the basic ingredient - cloud -which is missing.Arrangements to cause artificial rain during the current winter on an "experimental basis" would last till March 30.
a biodegradable wrapping : Environmental Polymers Group has developed a plastic with self-destruction built in. The company has also been awarded patent protection, a Smart Award of $59,000 from the UK's Department of Trade and Industry in 1999, and Millennium Product status as an example of good British design.
Yoshihito Shirai, a professor at the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan, says he has figured out how to extract polyactic acid-a core material of biodegradable plastics-from food waste. Along the way, fertilizer can be created as well.
for millions of years, natural barriers such as oceans, mountains, rivers and deserts provided an ideal habitat for various flora and fauna. Now these natural barriers have been conquered. This had led to exotic species travelling vast distances to previously unknown habitats to invade new areas. This is regarded as …
mature forests have more potential for gobbling up carbon dioxide ( co 2 ) than young ones. This was revealed in a study conducted by Ernst-Detlef Schulze, director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, along with his colleagues. Huge amounts of carbon are trapped in tree …
societal changes such as increase in human population have led to a steep rise in the costs of flood damages in the us . A study conducted by Roger Pielke Jr and Mary Downton of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research ( ncar ), Colorado, usa , states that even …
with the need to feed the burgeoning population on one hand, and the lack of arable land on the other, farmers across the world, more so in developing countries, are faced with a dilemma: how to increase crop yield while keeping production costs low. Use of pesticides, insecticides and high-yielding …
scientists have imitated a key process that might have triggered the beginning and end of the ice ages and also could solve the present day problem of carbon emissions. An international team of scientists working on the Southern Ocean Iron Release Experiment ( soiree ) has "fertilised' a part of …
Though disposing of radioactive waste as well as military activity in and around Antarctica is banned, the continent is not free from threats. Long distance dispersion of radioactive particles has put its marine life at risk. According to marine biologist Franceso Nonnis Marzano of the University of Parma in Italy …
The arrival of humans in America led to the extinction of almost 130 faunal species. A British Broadcasting Corporation report indicates that early immigrants brought with them deadly viruses that led to a host of diseases in the animal population of the continent. "They brought along-with them parasites, which they …
The wild orangutan, humankind's third-closest living relative, could become extinct in the next 20 years. Habitat destruction is threatening their existence, says Birut
