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 …
Researchers from Yokohoma National University (Japan) have developed a novel way to evaluate the state of pollution of soil - by taking a genetic census of its bacterial population. When a soil sample is contaminated by compounds such as dioxin or agricultural chemicals, the types and numbers of bacteria living …
The Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam in Dehra Dun has developed a technology to make coal out of "chir" leaves which cover the floor of forest in the Garhwal Hills and are one of the factors responsible for forest fires in the region.
from coastal zones to the high seas, a growing wave of awareness is bringing together citizen groups, businesses and governments, who are mobilising all their resources to save the oceans before human activities destroy them. This has been the conclusion of Anne Platt McGinn's study Safeguarding the Health of Oceans …
The stories of conquest and depredation of alang alang grass and gypsy moth show how serious the unfettered invasion of alien life forms (both zoological and botanical) can become. A native of South Asia, and a valued source of thatch, alang alang grass is a weed whose economic importance is …
Bacteria could become the latest weapon in the oil industry's efforts to retrieve and purify heavy grades of crude oil. US researchers have discovered that bacterial biocatalysts can remove impurities such as sulphur, nitrogen and metals from crude oil. The technique which was invented at the US Department of Energy's …
Delhi University(DU) scientists have devised a method by which ecologically degraded areas like exhausted mines and desertified lands can be covered with green vegetation within a few years. The method that helps restore the ecological health works by mimicking nature.C.R. Babu from the department of botany at D.U., who together …
While experts and activists grope in the dark for viable solutions to industrial effluent treatment and defluoridation of fluoride-rich water--problems which have assumed mammoth dimensions in the state-- a very practical way of removing most pollutants, odour colour and heavy metals at half the cost of conventional water treatment plants …
Indian scientists studying the varied colours of the ocean-- ranging from blue to green and even yellowish brown-- to unearth clues about productivity, weather and pollution in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal will soon get the help of satellites to collect more data.
Scientists from Bangladesh have developed a low cost household technology for removal of soluble arsenic from water suitable for use by rural people. The arsenic research group of the Institute of Glass and Ceramic Research and Testing (IGCRT) of BCSIR has succeeded in developing the technology with locally available raw …
The mining industry hopes to repeal Montana's recent ban on cyanide for extracting precious metals from ores. But Orex Gold Mines Corp. is staking its future on the environmentally friendly Haber Gold Process. Independent tests show tha HGP extracts more gold, faster than cyanide does. Yet HGP's proprietory solvent is …
A Japanese researcher says he has found bacteria which gobble up plastic in his back garden, opening the way to a new solution for the country's overloaded rubbish heaps. The research was led by scientist Yoshito Otake of the Chemicals Inspection and Testing Institute, Japan, in collaboration with five private …
Water lilies (Nymphaea) can be used to restore the purity of rivers and water sources polluted with poisonous heavy metals, and to treat waste water originating from household or industrial sources. Experiments carried out at the Hebrew Univesity, Jerusalem, Israel, have shown that the watet lity, generally thought of only …
greenland's southern glaciers are rapidly thinning and their lower elevations may be particularly sensitive to potential climate changes, suggests a nasa study. The results of this study are important as they could represent the first indication of an increase in the speed of outlet glaciers, said Bill Krabill, principle investigator …
predatory birds and mammals are being poisoned after eating rats which have high levels of pesticides in their bodies. The proportion of barn owls found with anticoagulant rodenticides in their livers increased from 5 per cent in 1983-84 to 36 per cent in 1995-96. This was stated in a study …
burying waste paper and wood permanently locks away large amounts of carbon that if burnt would escape into the atmosphere and speed up global warming. The us now says it wants to include landfills as carbon sinks under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to curb greenhouse gas emissions. This could lead …
a study conducted on the burying of waste by the mining industry states that the practice could lead to acid contamination of the soil. A team led by John Harries and his colleagues at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation in Sydney looked at 317 active and abandoned mines …
a study conducted by scientists from five countries including the us and Canada stated that Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian authorities should work together to preserve aquatic eco-systems in the region. Fresh water supplies in the Middle East now are barely sufficient to maintain a quality standard of living, said Gilbert …
According to a report by the US-based World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the seasonal hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica reached record proportions in September 1998. Covering an area of 25 million square kilometres, or about 2.5 times the area of Europe, this hole surpassed the previous record
