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 …
American rivers, an environmental protection group based in Washington, DC, USA, has warned that farmers along the Minnesota river are severely damaging the river by their crop selection. Cultivation of crops such as corn and soya bean in an area prone to flooding is not only leading to crop losses …
The California-based Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the formation of a study group to examine the need for national action following a series of reports in a Seattle newspaper about crop loss and health problems arising from the use of fertilisers containing recycled industrial wastes and radionuclides. The Washington …
water hyacinths (Eichhornia crassipes) have never had it so good, and Lake Victoria in Africa has seldom had it so bad. The lake has been infested by the weed that has caused numerous problems to fisherfolk, tangling the fishing nets, clogging up the motors of the boats and destroying the …
planting ryegrasses (awned cereal grasses that resemble barley) accelerates the redemption of soil contaminated with polyaromatic hydrocarbons (pahs) and pentachlorophenol (pcp). This was established by a year-long greenhouse study conducted by Phytokinetics Inc, a company based in Logan, Utah, usa. The study was sponsored by the California-based Environment Pro-tection Agency. …
Since the start of this decade, researchers have found various signs that the climate is more influenced than they had thought by the sun's complexion-moving, like the numbers of sunspots, in an 11 year cycle. The implication is unmissable, and tempting. Could global warming be blamed not just on a …
recycling paper is not the best option to protect the environment. Say this to the archetypal "green' activist and you will be labelled "pro-industry' and insensitive to the environment. You are bound to be reminded that the forests
Phytotech, a company based in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, USA, has come out with a technique to purify water contaminated with radiation. Interestingly, the technique uses sunflowers. It works by soaking up uranium from streams and other water sources near derelict nuclear sites. Phytotech tested the effectiveness of sunflowers in …
Rapid rise in the number of visitors at the National Audubon Society's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, southwest of Florida, USA, has resulted in an alarming increase in the amount of waste generated. But the sanctuary, in consonance with laws of Florida, has built a comprehensive sewage system to treat the wastes. …
hollywood has even made a film about it. Fly Away Home tells the story of a father-daughter team and their efforts to lead a flock of young geese to a new home and of their eventual success. Reality, however, is a totally different ball game, far from the big screen's …
John M Spotts, Director of Technical Service for Project earth Industries, Inc, a USA based manufacturer of chemical environmental technologies delivered an oral presentation on Thursday at the International Conference on Arsenic Pollution of Ground Water in Bangladesh, at which time the successful results of an independent field test of …
Using hydrogen peroxide, a common bleaching agent, the Chennai-based researchers have developed a new, efficient and safe method for treating tannery effluents.
As part of the International Year of the Ocean (IYO), which is being observed this year, the Department of Ocean Development (DOD) has proposed to deploy its research vessel, ORV Sagar Kanya, for a study of the characteristics of the aerosol over the oceanic regions and their optical effects.During the …
Scientists have known for years that leaves falling from trees and flowing downstream are important to the ecosystem of the waterbody. Now, researchers at the University of Georgia and Virginia Polytech have come out with the results of a three-year study that further explain the functions of fallen leaves. The …
A California state jury has directed the owner of a tanker that spilled 76.4 million litres of oil in 1990 near two popular beaches in the US state to pay US $18 million for damages caused by the closing of the beaches. In what lawyers called an unprecedented verdict, the …
some two decades ago, South Africa's powerful asbestos mining companies closed shop. Most of them left open waste dumps of the deadly fibre to be spread by wind and water. Now, the University of Potchefstroom's Research Institute of Reclamation Ecology (rire) has been handed over the task of rehabilitating many …
around 1200 bce, the Bronze Age civilisations of the Eastern Mediterranean came to a premature end . Within 50 years, several famous centres of scholarship and industry such as Troy, Mycenae and Knossos had been reduced to rubble. Amos Nur, a geophysicist at Stanford University, usa , believes that a …
each year, thermal features such as hot springs at the Yellowstone national park in the us emit millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (co2), the most important greenhouse gas, according to researchers at Pennsylvania State University (psu), usa. This is more than the emissions from a typical industrial power plant, …
The National Institute for Minamata Disease said it has worked with Taisei Corp. to develop an energy efficient, low cost way to remove mercury from contaminated soil. Special catalysts are mixed in with the soil to promote evaporation of the mercury when the soil is heated.
gahirmatha beach in the eastern state of Orissa, the world's largest rookery of the endangered Olive Ridley turtle, will soon lose this superlative. The turtles do not find the beach suitable for nesting any more and are changing to other places following continual disturbances due to human activities. This has …
concerns that burning of fossil fuels could increase levels of co 2 in the atmosphere leading to climate change has caused wrangling among the world's politicians, scientists and environmentalists for years. But it has seldom been regarded as a business opportunity. Now, three enterprises in the uk are promoting "carbon …
