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 …
AN EXPLOSION in the population of Antarctic fur seals has caused wide- spread changes to many coastal, terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems in the northern maritime Antarctic islands and on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Dominic A Hodgeson and Nadine M Johnston of the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, conducted …
The number of new products marketed in the US as'environmentally friendy declined in 1996, according to the analysis of data available with Marketing Intelligence Service, a New York-based company. The firm tracks products labelled with some kind of green claim , such as biodegradable, ozone-friendly, pesticide free, or recycled, but …
A survey of 10,076 households conducted by the NPD Group Inc in the US found that computers switched on at homes sit idle for 54 per cent of the time. The Sierra Club, a group of environmentalists, has estimated that a computer running for more than three hours a day …
MAYAK, a nuclear energy facility in the former Soviet Union that remained shrouded in secrecy for over 40 years now, has been identified as perhaps the most disastrous, according to a recent research report. Though not as well- known as the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, the Mayak complex is …
RESEARCHERS in Zimbabwe have found an effective way to deal with tsetse flies. The novel solution, which is simple, cost-effective, efficient and environ- ment-friendly, was first devised by the Rekomitjie research station in the Zambezi Valley in northern Zimbabwe. The research team discovered that tsetse flies are attracted by both …
BIOLOGICAL waste will now be recycled to feed fish. A joint project has been undertaken by the University of Queensland, Australia, and state and industry researchers to process waste to feed crayfish and silver perch. The project will reduce the adverse environmental impact of waste products from the intensive livestock …
GETTING drinking water by immediate purification of sewage, inconceivable sopme years back, is now a reality. An Australian company, Memtec, has successfully used microfiltration technology to purify sewage in a small town in the UK. The town had for the past 30 years been dumping untreated sewage into the sea. …
Satellite data has revealed that temperatures in the polar regions of both northern and southern hemispheres fluctuate markedly with the waxing and waning of the Moon. According to John Shaffer and his colleagues at the Department of [ogy at Arizona State University in rempe, average temperatures in the Axtic and …
RECENT findings of a regional TRAFFIC (a joint programme of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature and the World Conservation Union) has expressed concern that trade in bear organs may continue to place pressure on the declining wild bear population, especially in Asia. East Asia is the centre for the …
Sound from acoustic guitars may soon become more melodious for environmentalists. Hiroyuki Yano, Yuuzoh Furuta and Hiroyuki Nakagawa of the Kyoto Prefectural University in Japan have discovered a replacement for Brazilian rosewood, an endangered tree that has been used to make the backs and sides of the best guitars. The …
Norman MacLeod of the Natural History Museum in London and his team suggest that most dinosaurs died due to changes in the earthly environment some 65 million years ago than due to exotic visitors like asteroids. They studied the fossil record of extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous period
winning is important. A chemical signal that stimulates the nerves of crayfish, who win fights can have completely the opposite effect in those that lose. The findings by scientists in Atlanta, Georgia, show that events have the power to change the way the nervous system functions. The research might even …
scientists in Britain and Germany studying fossilised protozoans in the Southern Atlantic believe that ocean currents in Antarctica may have triggered regular growth spurts in Arctic ice sheets over the past 14,0000 years. This finding may lead to better predictions of the rate of global warming (New Scientist, Vol 154, …
Now people can have the comfort of a fireplace in their homes without having to worry about air pollution, Superior Fireplace Co of California, US, has designed a natural-gas fireplace which gives natural bright yellow flames of a traditional wood fire, unlike other such units which burn with a blue …
Ultraviolet rays penetrating through the protective ozone layer over Antarctica are damaging the DNA of higher animals. Scientists from the Northeastern University of Texas, US, found extensive DNA lesions in the eggs and larvae of ice fish - an Antarctic fish that lacks hacmoglobin - during the period when the …
MONKEYS have an amazing knowledge of medicinal plants. When they fall ill or get hurt they cure themselves by eating plants commonly found around them. A long-term study undertaken by the author in the 1990s in Delhi to determine the effects of food on the health of monkeys, brings to …
A TEAEM of researchers from the Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, has isolated two fungal and one bacterial strains which are capable of removing colour and heavy metals from polluted water. Mycologist R S Upadhyay and his research-studen( R K Maurya are striving to develop a water treatment …
Droughts in west Africa over the past 20 years may have been caused by the destruction of rainforests in countries such as Nigeria, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, and further deforestation in the region "could cause complete collapse of the west African monsoon', says Xinyu Zheng of the Centre for Global …
Underground and in the dark, there is a subtle chemistry that brings bacteria and plants together in the ultimate marriage of convenience. Legumes like rice and wheat possess the ability to form bulbous nodules
daylight is not all dewdrops and honey. It also contributes to the destruction of the ozone layer in the stratosphere, say Patrick Aimedieu of France's National Space Research Centre and Bob Sheldon of the University of Houston, us, who base their claims on studies using balloons above southern France ( …
