Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
pollution alerts have become frequent in France. Paris authorities issued pollution alerts twice last month. The first was issued on August 13, when a northwesterly wind significantly reduced levels of oxygen. Authorities urged city residents to leave their cars at home and use public transport. Later, they lifted the alert …
After having spent Rs14 crore on the Chu hydel project on the Rathong Chu river, the government of the eastern state of Sikkim has decided to scrap it. Pawan Chamling, chief minister of Sikkim, made the announcement at a public meeting attended in the state on August 20. The decision …
smog in the office has not been on the agenda of environmentalists. But, in fact it might be causing some severe health problems. Modern office machines such as fax, photocopiers, and printers, can create ozone, which reacts with various commonly-found chemicals to produce volatile organic compounds ( voc s). These …
reports that two ships of us origin had entered the Indian maritime zone to be broken up at one of the country's ship breaking yards created a stir in the Lok Sabha on August 5 when it came to light that the ships in question were used for transporting hazardous …
If there is one single factor which binds most Asian cities together, it is pollution. According to Emerging Asia: Changes and Challenges , an Asian Development Bank publication and Toward an Environmental Strategy for Asia , a World Bank discussion paper, environmental sacrilege across Asia is widespread and the region …
myriad problems that confront the region include burgeoning population figures, poverty, economic development, weak official infrastructure. The relationship between population and environment is a close one. It is believed that rising populations could lay an extra stress on the natural resources. However, it is not the increase in population that …
the overall quality of life of the nation suffers considerably when environmental rot sets in. This could either be in the form of economic or non-economic costs. Estimates of the economic costs of environmental degradation in Asia range from one to nine per cent of a country's Gross National Product …
environmental negligence is cos-t-ing the Asians dearly. But as adb states, the potential to reverse the downward trend exists. Asian policymakers need to adopt a different environmental policy, one that will sustain and stretch the resources further. Though regulation should be the keyword, a more flexible approach and implementation policy …
• The Asian continent suffers from serious problems in the areas of urban environmental degradation, industrial pollution, atmospheric emissions and loss of habitat among others • Industrialisation has been a key factor in downgrading Asian environment. The message has always been to
A survey of five regional hospitals in 1983 found that over seven per cent of total poisoning cases were occupationally related. In 1984, a survey showed that the average lead level in the blood of workers at a Thai battery plant was in the range of 12 to 48 milligrammes …
asia"s race to become more industrial and economically privileged has had its fall outs. The picture is none too pretty: more population, more poverty, more air, water and noise pollution, continuing resource depletion, less ecological diversity, all plague the continent. Some areas have localised problems like the danger of rising …
Leaded gasoline causes about 90 per cent of airborne lead pollution in cities, the rest of which comes from factories, power plants, lead pipes, lead-based solder and paint. In the developing countries, about 15 million children may be suffering from permanent brain damage due to lead poisoning. About 80 per …
conservationists are debating the reintroduction of wolves in forest areas as a means of preserving forests. Rhum, a remote island off the west coast of Scotland, uk , and a national nature reserve, is in the heart of the controversy following a proposal to rehabilitate wolf populations to check the …
come November and the surroundings of Sabarimala, the hill shrine situated in the southern part of the Periyar tiger reserve in Kerala, take a beating. The annual influx of over two crore pilgrims during the makaravilakku season (November to January) inflicts heavy biotic pressure and widespread environmental damage. According to …
Seoul, the capital of South Korea is one of the most polluted cities of the world. Rhee Chong, head of the division of pulmonary medicine in the department of medicine at the Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, identified sulphur dioxide (so2) and photochemical oxidants (pco)-ozone gas as being the worst …
tetrachloroethene is a prominent groundwater pollutant that is suspected to be a carcinogen. A team of experts on microbiology and environmental engineering from the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, have isolated Dehalococcoides ethenogenes (also known as strain 195), a bacterial strain that can dechlorinate this toxin into ethene - a …
rapeseed oil is being tested by British researchers to lubricate the oil rigs drilling in the North Sea. Developers say the oil would degrade more quickly than the mineral oils in use at present. Alistair Wilkinson and his team at Heriot-Watt University's Institute of Offshore Engineering, Edinburgh, have been testing …
environmentalists have warned that Nepal's Phewa lake could disappear within 20 years time if mindless pollution of its waters and unplanned tilling of the land around it continue. The lake, which attracts 40 per cent of Nepal's tourists, is situated some 200 km west of Kathmandu in the Pokhara valley. …
the Centre has been directed by the Delhi High Court to constitute a committee to explore alternative methods of power generation, including the use of solar energy to solve the problem of generator pollution in Delhi. Two separate public interest petitions seeking a ban on diesel-operated generators had been submitted …
