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 …
to the dismay of many environmentalists, it seems that a potent ozone-depleting pesticide scheduled for a gradual phase-out would be retained after all. us researchers have found that emissions of the agricultural fumigant gas methyl bromide could be reduced to what they claim are insignificant levels by applying composted manure …
US researchers recently stated that climate change is most likely to have severe widespread impacts on human health with significant loss of life. The researchers also reported that global warming will put as much as 65 per cent of the world's population at risk of infection
An estimated US $2 million worth of lobsters were found either dead or ill off the coast of Maine in the US in 1998. Though some of these lobsters were found to have bacterial infections, researchers believe that the mystery infection is not bacterial. Maya Crosby, marine biologist with the …
Recent experiments have shown water lilies to be capable of absorbing large quantities of heavy metals through their leaves and roots. The research was conducted by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Department of Agricultural Botany. The research team showed that water lilies thrive in water containing high concentrations of heavy …
A Carleton University PhD student is mapping out a molecule that blurs the traditional dividing line between bad industrial pollutants and good natural chemicals. Sheryl Tittlemier's newfound chemical behaves like some of the nastiest industrial pollutants in the world and it comes from something natural in the oceans. Man-made pollutants …
while leaders of some 150 countries were negotiating climate deals to curb global warming and climate change in Buenos Aires, Argentina, scientists were busy trying to figure out how global climate will change if the talks fail. Will it be a gradual change from warm to very hot, or a …
the waters around Antarctica may be teeming with a far greater diversity of larvae than biologists realised. Researchers diving under the ice have discovered 10 times as many different types of larvae as were previously known to be there. They could provide a barometer to check the effects of climate …
Volcanoes triggered the deep freeze that has covered polar regions with ice for millions of years, say US geologists. For years, researchers have debated the causes of the latest series of ice ages, which began roughly 2.6 million years ago. Among the prime suspects were periodic changes in the tilt …
The biotechnology revolution is on the threshold of transforming the field of environmental engineering. Recent breakthroughs in molecular biology, microbiology and biochemical engineering are making it increasingly possible for environmental engineers to think in terms of prevention, as well as remediation. Environmental engineers at Stanford will be at the forefront …
British designers appear to have had India's pollution-ridden cities in mind for the launch of a revolutionary product that will foreover change the way babies travel: the world's first pollution-proof pram. A special battery-driven fan pumps 160 litres of cleaned air per minute into a protective plastic capsule. Pressurised air …
Billy Hau-hang, a young botanist at the University of Hong Kong, hopes to restore Hong Kong's forests to their natural diversity. His efforts are being studied carefully in Beijing. Reforestation has risen to the top of the government's agenda after fierce flooding last summer, for which deforestation and consequential soil …
Bangladeshi scientists have developed a low-cost chemical compound to purify water contaminated with arsenic, a major problem in this South Asian country, a reported said on Tuesday.
Some good news has come with the development of a simple and efficient Gravitational Settling Chamber design that incorporates an innovative approach for the removal of particulate matters from effluent gases released from brick kilns, by the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) here.
Once upon a time, the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique was a healthy green forest filled with wildlife, and enjoyed the distinction of being the country's most biologically-diverse park. But 17 years of intense civil war has changed all that. During the war, Renamo - the National Resistance of Mozambique, …
As gray whales face new threats along the Baja Californian coast in the US, their rarer cousins in the Western Pacific are facing greater peril, owing to a consortium of profit-hungry Japanese and western oil companies, in collusion with the Russian government. The Western Pacific's 200 surviving gray whales migrate …
WE HAVE met the enemy, and he is us." This line, from the well-known 1960s US comic strip Pogo by Walt Kelly, still retains its topicality today as a comment on our contribution to environmental degradation. Our insatiable appetite for 'progress' has ensured the extinction of countless life forms, and …
THE US Army is not all about Stinger missiles and guerrilla warfare. Its Corps of Engineers are about to embark on what has been labelled as the 'the largest environmental restoration project ever' - to spend some us $7.8 billion to restore the Florida Everglades to their lost glory. Their …
ALASKA is going through a lot of changes. Few months back, global warming caused the region's ice caps to melt and now, the Alaska's marine ecology is being altered. But this time, its not human induced. It seems that killer orca whales have developed an appetite for Alaskan sea otters. …
GREEK mythology can boast of some truly weird creatures. Centaurs - the furious half- man- half- horse warring class, Hydra, a three-headed monster and many more. But none is as frightening as the three snake-haired Medusa, one look from whom could turn people into stone. Well, as Mother Nature would …
