Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
the Sun, apart from being the source of all energy for the Earth, also spews out other particles copiously into space. One such particle, the neutrino could help scientists formulate the correct theory of the Sun. Unfortunately, all attempts till date to measure the number of neutrinos coming to us …
we may not be the only ones. With the discovery of a new planet, a team of astronomers has come a step closer to finding solar systems that might have characteristics similar to our own. The team recently found a Jupiter-sized planet in a circular orbit around a faint star …
optical fibres can carry ten times the information previously believed to be the theoretical maximum. With the advent of the Internet, the demand for bandwidth (the information carrying capacity of the transferring channel) has increased dramatically. Today, most of the bandwidth in the world is not through copper cables but …
the profit-driven polluting automobile industry, that fought the us Environmental Protection Agency's ( usepa ) efforts to implement strict air quality standards, got a snub recently when a re-evaluation of the studies
Angry fisherfolk of Galapagos Islands, 965 kilometres off the Ecuadorean mainland, recently lay seige to research stations of the Charles Darwin Foundation, the main promoter of conservation efforts in the island. The fisherfolk were protesting against the October 2000 announcement of the Galapagos Fishing Commission that established seasonal limits on …
walking through the corridors of the heritage building of Forest Research Institute ( fri ) and Indian Council of Forest Research and Education ( icfre ) in Dehradun one cannot but be impressed with the colonial architecture. The sprawling campus with its pine forest, rare and exotic trees and numerous …
the diesel lobby in the us received two major blows recently when the Science Advisory Board of the us E nvironment Protection Agency ( epa) classified diesel exhaust as a
the Clinton administration has proposed new rules to protect environmentally sensitive wetlands from rash development. The new rules, to be implemented after a 60-day period of public comment, would make the present regulations more comprehensive regarding what kind of wetlands development requires an environmental impact review by the government. The …
the French have always wanted to set up a World Environment Organisation ( weo ). It is therefore not surprising that the French prime minister, Lionel Jospin should once again raise the issue of setting up a weo . So what exactly is a weo? As conceived by its proponents …
The IISc seems to be preoccupied with basic research as distinct from application-oriented research. Much of the institute's work is today removed from the concerns of the common person. Do you agree this is true? This is not true. Fundamentally, I do not care for labels like basic and applied …
Scientific institutions from Mexico and the United States are conducting an environmental impact study to see if a proposed salt mine in Baja California would disrupt one of the last grey whale breeding habitats in the world. The Mexican government and Mitsubishi Corporation want to construct a salt mine in …
Is our quest for better food creating aliens hostile and powerful enough to overwhelm the environment? In our desire to create an apple without a wormhole are we about to upset nature's apple cart? These are genetically modified organisms (gmos): a tomato with a chicken's gene that can sit on …
A genetically engineered organism or a transgenic is one in which genes or the hereditary material which determines the characteristics of the organism is transferred from one organism to another through artificial means, either within species or between species. Genetically modified products are those that are obtained as a result …
Rapeseed was given a dose of genes to induce lethal stomach upsets in beetles and other pests feeding upon the leaves and stalks of other plants. The genes were supposed to produced protease inhibitors, proteins which scramble the process of digestion by interfering with enzymes in the intestinal tracts of …
One of the major decisions taken by the Convention on Biological Diversity (cbd), which came into force in 1993,when over a 100 countries ratified the Treaty, was to work out a foolproof biosafety protocol. Even though Chapter 16 of Agenda 21 of the cbd document deals with the 'environmentally sound …
Organic foods are big business in the us. Since 1991, food sales have jumped 20 per cent annually, reaching US $3.4 billion in 1996, projected to grow to $6.5 billion by the year 2000. Land under organic crop cultivation has more than doubled since 1991 and organic dairy sales are …
l European activists, on a destructive binge, destroyed genetically altered crops wherever they could. In August 1997, an experimental crop of oilseed rape, owned by the US-based biotech corporation Monsanto, was destroyed by local residents at Tibs Hall Farm, Kingsbury, UK. The crop was uprooted and mixed with
Should gmos be banned or should caution be exercised in their introduction into the environment? If so, the need of the hour is a strong law to protect countries of the South. The us has already set the precedent by banning transgenic cotton resistant to the pesticide bromoxynil. The us …
