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 …
after affecting over one-sixth of the total sal ( Shorea robusta ) forests in Madya Pradesh in 1997, the sal borer is back with a vengeance. According to media reports, at least three million sal trees are affected in Bihar, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh. Climatic changes like …
smog is not only suffocating human beings, but is also choking plants. Air pollution is indirectly responsible for the destruction of trees and, for the first time, researchers of Finland have found evidence supporting their argument. According to them, due to air pollution there has been a decline in the …
The spate of amphibian deaths and deformities the world over has confused scientist for some time now. Among the various reasons to which this has been attributed are fungal infection, thinning of the atmosphere's ozone layer, ultraviolet radiation or loss of habitat. Now, researchers from the US Fish and Wildlife …
East Timbalier, one of the islands that protect the Louisiana coastal wetlands in the us, is expected to disappear in just a few years, perhaps as early as 2004. Narrowed and cut by hurricanes and oil and gas exploration efforts, East Timbalier is just a shadow of its former self. …
US Researchers have found very high concentrations of nitrogen oxide in the snow of areas far removed from the effects of pollution, and that sunlight encourages its production."The exciting thing we found is that the nitrate in snow interacts with the sunlight and sets off a very rapid series of …
Cities and states may soon have a new high-tech tool in the battle against automotive air pollution, thanks to NASA satellite technology originally developed to track global greenhouse gases and the Earth's protective ozone layer. As envisioned,NASA's atmospheric remote sensing technology will be adapted to an autonomous roadside system to …
according to a recently published article, greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions reduction programme undertaken by us cities could help meet 10 per cent of the total target usa has to meet under its Kyoto Protocol obligations. Urban planners in the us believe that enthusiastic participation by the municipalities in such programmes …
a survey conducted by the Assam Remote Sensing Application Centre (arsac), Guwahati, and the Space Research Centre, Ahemdabad, has revealed that 1,367 out of 3,513 wetlands in Assam are under severe threat due to the invasion of aquatic weeds and other developmental activities. "Our wetlands have turned into wastelands and …
Recent findings show that Africa is home not to one, as was common knowledge, but two species of elephants. For many years, some zoologists have suspected that this might be the case, as African elephants tend to be stockier than the savannah elephants and also have straighter tusks and rounder …
It is now a well-known fact that many fish and other aquatic creatures change their sex during the course of their lives. But the peppermint shrimps are different: even after changing their sex, they continue to retain the features and functions of both the male and female. These shrimps dwell …
An unlikely material is to be used to repair Britain's roads - broken glass from old wine bottles. The initiative is part of a concerted effort by the recyling industry to find new uses for the glut of empty green bottles created by the UK's growing enthusiasm for wine drinking. …
By planting sunflowers and mustard seed, engineers working for DaimlerChrysler have succeeded in cleansing the ground contaminated with lead on the site of an abandoned car plant in Detroit, Michigan. They managed to reduce theoverall concentrations of lead in the soil by 43 per cent.
It is now known that weather and the supply of nutrients and pollinators have an impact on the way a flower blooms. Now Diana Pilson of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln says that even insect pests can influence the time a flower blooms. She studied the effect of five …
Sponges found in the chilly waters of Antarctica are infested with algae that scrounge off them during the dark polar winter. Algae often live inside the cells of other animals, such as reef-building corals, but they usually provide some benefit. Giorgio Bavestrello of the University of Ancona and his colleagues …
If some climate scientists are to be believed, planting forests in the far north may increase global warming. Growing forests do lock up carbon dioxide, but during winter they soak up solar energy that would otherwise have reflected by the snow-covered tundra. "It's a paradox. With northern forests, the reduction …
conservationists are a worried lot these days. In the past, when climate changed living beings could move from one place to the other. But now the situation is different. Global warming threatens to tear some protected ecosystems completely apart as species invade, flee, breed at odd times or go extinct …
a reconstruction of climate using lake sediments suggests that African climate in previous centuries was much lethal than in the last 30 years. "Those centuries saw huge swings in African rainfall. The fluctuations seem to be tied to variations in the radiative output of the Sun,' says Dirk Verschuren of …
In the context of a French national research programme on natural hazards, a bathymetric survey was undertaken off the Futuna and Alofi Islands in the South-West Pacific. Its objective was to improve knolege of deformations of the oceanic lithospere in this part of the Pacific which suffers intense seismic activity.
In ground-breaking research using laboratory animals, researchers at the John Hopkins School of Public Health and Medicine have found that genetic background is an important risk factor in how susceptible a person will be to the toxic effects of particulate air pollution. According to the researchers, genetic risk factors may …
A new breakthrough in emissions reduction has been hailed as the greatest since the development of the catalytic converter. The 'microwave emissions converter' has already attracted worldwide media coverage not only for its ability to cut exhaust emissions by up to 90%, but also its 'waste' product, a film of …
