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 …
The Gujarat Pollution and Control Board had issued notices to Nirma in February end and to Indian Rayon a forthnight ago, for air and water pollution caused by their units in Bhavnagar and Veraval respectively. However, it has been learnt that both units have been functioning uninterruptedly. "As per the …
A new technology being promoted by Green Mountain Power and the University of Vermont might clean up manure before it's spread on farm fields, reducing the chances for air and water pollution. The technology, being sold by a Colchester businessman, uses electricity to kill disease-causing bacteria in liquid manure. That …
This year's hurricane season is likely to be very active, though not as bad as last year's record-shattering barrage on the Gulf Coast, a leading U.S. prediction team said Tuesday. The latest 2006 forecast by the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University envisions a higher potential for intense hurricanes …
uncontrolled emission from poorly managed thermal power plants in northern and eastern India is the main source for the haze that envelops the Indo-Gangetic plains during winter, shows a new study. The region extends from Rawalpindi in Pakistan to Rangpur in northern Bangladesh. The findings contradict earlier studies that sought …
a new research study shows that the function of mangroves is not limited to protecting the coastline and maintaining biodiversity. An international study has found that though mangroves cover less than 0.1 per cent of the global land area, they provide more than 10 per cent of essential dissolved organic …
regular exposure to lead dust and fumes reduces sperm density, motility and viability and lowers semen volume causing infertility among workers of lead acid battery factories, claim researchers at Kolkata's Regional Occupational Health Centre and Jadavpur University. "Sophisticated imaging techniques like scanning electron microscopy uncovered sharp depressions, membrane folding and …
does exposure to cadmium increase the risk of cancer and other malignancies? Although the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies cadmium as a carcinogen, there have been other population-based studies that have yielded inconsistent results. But now, a study by a group of Belgian scientists offers strong indication of …
the average temperatures have gone up more during the last century than at any other period during the past 1,200 years, claims a recent study by researchers from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the uk . The scientists Tim Osborn and Keith Briffa
plant-based alternative fuels may be as efficient as petrol, but for now they offer only marginal environmental benefits, according to scientists who have analysed how much energy goes into producing such biofuels, and how much carbon dioxide (co2) they emit as they power vehicles. A us study that appeared in …
amphibians are fast disappearing and at least one-third of the known species of frogs, toads, salamanders and caecilians, are endangered. Though climate change, pollution and disease have been usually blamed, strong evidence has emerged implicating pesticides for threatening reproduction and development in amphibians. Now, a team of scientists in the …
a group of scientists at the Chennai-based Central Leather Research Institute (clri) has developed two cost-effective and eco-friendly techniques to remove chromium from the effluents discharged by tanning units. The metal exists in its highly carcinogenic hexavalent form (chromium vi) in the effluent. Currently, chemical precipitation methods are used to …
researchers in Canada have proved that persistent toxic fluorochemicals used in industrialised parts of the world land up in the blood of humans and animals in pristine areas far away, such as the Arctic region. The chance detection of the derivatives of fluorotelomer alcohols, which are carcinogenic, in the cells …
scientists in Sri Lanka have found a new way to safely dispose plastic materials. They enlisted the services of a bacterium and a fungus that feed on hydrocarbons to break down polymer chains in polythene products. An estimated 60 million tonnes of polyethylene are produced annually the world over. But …
A sixty-member Indian team , including 27 scientists, set sail for Antarctica from Goa today to set up the third Indian station on the icy continent. The team on board the Akademic Boris Petrov
scientists in the us have found that air pollution and a high-fat diet can together cause atherosclerosis (hardening of arteries) in laboratory mice. The findings are significant as the fine particulate concentrations used in the study were well within the range found in metropolitan areas. Conducted by the Mount Sinai …
indiscriminate use of copper chromate arsenate (cca), a wood preservative, is fraught with the risk of arsenic leaching and contaminating soil and groundwater, warns a study conducted in the us . T imber and plantation wood are commonly treated with cca, which has been in use for decades. cca increases …
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news reports on ozone depletion are frequent. But a study from the department of chemical and physical sciences at the University of Toronto, Canada, discusses the presence of excess ozone around the Tibetan plateau. The research team, led by G W Kent Moore, says that a concentrated ring of ozone …
at least half the water consumed at home and the workplace need not be of drinkable quality. With this in mind, a group of researchers from the uk has devised a low-maintenance, self-sustaining method to recycle used water after cleaning it only partially. The Green Roof Water Recycling System (grow), …
