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 …
Debarun Borthakur They say every form of art acts as a mirror for society, and if you believe it to be true, you cannot rule out a sense of responsibility on the artists
Climate change is claiming 300,000 lives a year and costing the global economy $125bn annually, with the damage set to escalate rapidly, according to the first study of the immediate effects of global warming. A further 300m people around the world are seriously affected by climate change through, for instance, …
Pavan Srinivasa and M J Shashank, Class VII students from Vidya Niketan, have won the Best Project Award for their submission in the environmental sciences category, at the recently-concluded National Science Fair 2008. The Initiative for Research and Innovation in Science (IRIS) conducted the fair at the prestigious Science City …
up visions of rusting junkyards on the wrong side of the tracks. But this image may soon get a green makeover. A research project in China suggests that iron shavings from factories can be a cheap and efficient way to clean up polluted water. And because such scrap is widely …
There is a type of rock with a voracious appetite for carbon dioxide ONE way of helping to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is to pump the gas into underground caverns or old oil fields. But there is also a rock that is happy to gobble it …
London: Gadget makers showed off their green credentials at a technology show in London to try to tempt consumers worried about soaring fuel bills, climate change and the financial crisis. Amid the usual array of power-hungry televisions, stereos and computers, a handful of companies promoted high tech products designed to …
The annual summer retreat of the sea ice cloaking the Arctic Ocean appears to have ended with the ice not quite matching last year's extraordinary recession, polar scientists said. Still, the scientists, at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, said that the ice in the Arctic …
Last year, a private company proposed "fertilizing" parts of the ocean with iron, in hopes of encouraging carbon-absorbing blooms of plankton. Meanwhile, researchers elsewhere are talking about injecting chemicals into the atmosphere, launching sun-reflecting mirrors into stationary orbit above the earth or taking other steps to reset the thermostat of …
Scientists studying variations in tropical heat and rainfall since the mid-1980s have found a strong link between warm periods and more extreme downpours. The observed rise in the heaviest rains is about twice that produced by computer simulations used to assess human-caused global warming, said the researchers. Other studies have …
The Saharan duststorms help sustain life over large regions of the North Atlantic Ocean, according to a latest study. Liverpool University researchers found that plants are able to grow in these regions because of their ability to take advantage of iron minerals in Saharan duststorms. This allows them to use …
Hyderabad, June 30: What do trees and plants have to do with the research output of an institution? Scientists at the National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad believe that greenery on their campus is helping them produce more research papers than their counterparts elsewhere in the world. The NGRI has …
Well before this city was destroyed by an earthquake 32 years ago, the coming disaster was loudly preceded by strange animal behaviour and other bizarre signals that survivors wish they heeded. "The animals were trying to tell us something. If only we knew that, not so many people would have …
With alarm bells ringing over the rapid melting of glaciers in the Himalayas, the Uttarakhand Government has decided to regulate tourist flow to the protected areas of Gangotri National Park, including Gomukh. The Government would now restrict the number of tourists visiting the origin of the holy river Ganga to …
"We have to create awareness about our country's rich flora and fauna and its conservation and ensure that people understand that the preservation of it can provide them livelihood. Only then can we achieve a viable conservation model for the country,' said senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh at the T. …
The unusually-heavy rains over Tamil Nadu and other parts of southern peninsula may have been caused by La Nina and the positive phase of southern oscillation (SO), global scale circulation features. La Nina, the opposite of El Nino, pertains to the anomalous decline in the temperature of the central tropical …
Behaviour of monsoon in different climates to be assessed Integrated adaptation strategies to be identified The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has initiated an inter-continental collaborative research on air pollution. The Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research (Bioforsk), Norway, and the International Pacific Research Centre, University of Hawaii, will collaborate …
During the survey, the team will send back films, photographs and scientific data on environmental and physiological features of the North Pole. Oceanographers, glaciologists and climatologists at Cambridge, the US Naval Postgraduate School, NASA, the uk Met office and the European Space Agency are also part of the project. Down …
The Corporation of Cochin will give away certificates of meritorious social service to those schools which successfully implement alternative waste management mechanisms on thier campuses, this includes a strict ban of plastic carry bags, announcement made by Mayor Mercy Williams in "say No To Plastic Carrybags" campaign.
