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 …
A clutch of companies in Europe, US and India have together promoted Global Pipe Engineering & System (India) Ltd to offer technology and products for waste water systems in India. Global Pipe will scout for partners in India to manufacture the products here and also lobby with government agencies and …
The most precious role yet for gold and silver could be in the field of water purification.Two scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, T. Pradeep and A. Sreekumaran Nair, have patented technology to use gold and silver nanoparticles to filter endosulfan, malathion and chlorpyrifos pesticides from water. The …
Setbacks in business never slowed down his spirit. Varghese John, a small-scale detergent maker from Kakkanad, has developed an organic compound which he claims, is an effective remedy for the mosquito menace.
An unapproved type of genetically engineered grass has been found growing in the wild in what scientists say could be the first instance in the United States in which a biotechnology plant has established itself outside a farm. Ecologists at the Environmental Protection Agency said they had found a small …
Indian scientists have successfully developed and tested technologies to generate electricity using bamboo. Two power plants with a capacity of 1 MW each would be commissioned in Assam in February next year. "This would be the first of its kind where we are using bamboo and bamboo wastes to generate …
"Water will be the coal of the future,' French science-fiction writer Jules Verne predicted in 1874. More than a century later in a world seeking clean alternatives to fossil fuels, Dutch and Norwegian scientists believe they can help turn Verne's dream into reality. The Dutch Center for Sustainable Water Technology …
If people can be convinced that use of fly ash can reduce the time for making concrete, provide more solidity and reduce costs, the day is not far off when India would be able to utilise all 100 million tonne of fly ash produced by it as building material,' said …
The earliest civilisations were not a product of favourabke conditions but ratehr a last resot in the face of dramatic shifts in the weather, a climate scientist said. Flying in the face of accepted theory that settled societies emerged from the development of static farming in good climatic conditions that …
Microbes can clean up contaminated industrial sites and poisoned waterways across the globe, saving billions of dollars in cleanup bills, an Australian scientist said.
A technology developed by a defence laboratory to protect soldiers from chemical warfare agents might also find application in the removal of pesticides from water or cold drinks, defence scientists have said. The activated carbon spheroids
The Science and Technology Entrepreneur Park (STEP) at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur has developed 'laboratory scale technology' for extraction of polyphenol from green tea leaves, which has become popular as a raw material for the pharmaceuticals and cosmetics industries. The price of polyphenol powder could be between Rs 1,000-5,000 …
With the population growing, there is a remarkable rise in the quantity of municipal waste water. And to save the environment, already grappling with other pollutants, it is imperative to treat this municipal waste water (MWW), that too, at an affordable costs. According to experimental studies conducted by M N …
We stand a defeated lot in our battle against these environment pollutants, at least as of now. Consequently, it is also hampering the process of sustainable development. As environment pollutants, are not mere health hazards, they can even reduce the nutritive value of crops like soyabean, pea and moong, thus …
Environmental factors can lead to genetic mutation by generating new gene alleles (either of a pair of genes). The new allele may improve its suitability (of propagation in subsequent generations) within the organism and increases its frequency, or decrease its suitability and finally disappear. Such interactions of genes with environment …
function table() { var popurl="image/20051130/24-table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=200, height=290, scrollbars=yes") } Sweets foiled by silver beware, the next time you consume sweets coated in silver foil: the decoration is a source of harmful metals. While the amount of the foil ingested through sweets is very small, it still is a health threat. …
threshold levels of exposure to environmental risks are crucial for regulatory agencies to determine safe limits for harmful contaminants. Though any level of exposure to carcinogens is harmful and regulatory agencies use linear dose-response models to estimate the risk to human health, they usually assume threshold levels exist for non-carcinogens. …
a university of Southern California led study has found air pollution poses almost three times greater danger to health than previously thought. The study by a team of American and Canadian researchers was based on almost two decades of data on chronic health effects of particulate matter less than 2.5 …
There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any point during the last 650,000 years, says a major new study that let scientists peer back in time at "greenhouse gases" that can help fuel global warming. The drill head and ice core, drilled on Nov. 30, 2002 …
Exposure to chronic noise on the street and at work can increase the risk of a heart attack, German researchers said. Scientists at the Charite University Medical Centre in Berlin who studied the impact of noise on health said it can increase stress levels which may set off changes in …
