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 …
Although free from civil war and out of the international spotlight at present, El Salvador is facing a problem that threatens more permanent damage than the war - ecological devastation. The once lush nation is turning into a desert, throttled by a severe water shortage and rising incidences of respiratory …
barely a year after its introduction in California, re-formulated petrol ( rfg ) is being hailed as the most effective means to check air pollution from automobiles since the catalytic converter. rfg accounts for 30 per cent of the us market, according to the Arco Oil group. They say that …
the funnel web spider is feared throughout Australia. One of the world's deadliest spiders, its venom can kill humans. But Glenn King, a biochemist, and Merlin Howden, a pharmacologist from the University of Sidney have concluded that the spider could be the means of a pesticide that does not harm …
in the recent months, water has become a major bone of contention between Israel and Jordan. Recently, a ceremony to inaugurate a peace park on the border between the two countries was cancelled because Jordan insisted that Israel should fulfil its commitment, under the 1994 Jordan-Israel peace treaty, to supply …
The Karnataka High Court recently awarded damages worth Rs 21,000 to a petitioner Muniswamy Gowda, who had accused a rice milling industry of damaging his health. The court ordered the state government, the chairperson of Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) and the owner of the rice milling industry to …
EUROPE'S farm buildings have concentrations of ammonia, bacterial toxins and dust, high enough to harm both farm workers and animals. Roger Phillips of the Silsoe Research Institute, Bed- fordshire, has reached this conclusion following a four-year study for the European Commission of farm buildings in Britain, Denmark, Germany and the …
INSTEAD of lowering environmental degradation along the 3,218-km Mexico-us border, the North American Free Trade Agreement has only worsened the problem. The Mexican region has become an ideal location for polluting us companies because of weak enforcement of environment4l laws. The town of Matamoros on the Mexican side of the …
ENVIRONMENTALISTS from Japan and other Countries are protesting against a government -funded dike, which has dried out the Isahaya wetlands in the Nagasaki Prefecture. The once-thriving wet-lands have turned into a muddy cesspool containing dead sea organisms. Government officials say that the dike is necessary to reclaim land, control view …
OVER the last 16 years, AIDS has become the most important challenge for medical scientists. It has already destroyed or is in the process of decimating the immune systems of over 8 million people the world over. Close to half of them have perished due to opportunistic infections such as …
The Bangladesh government is soon going to set up a green court to deal with environmental problems, such as deteriorating air quality, in major cities such as its capital Dhaka. A study conducted in 1996 has revealed that during the dry season, Dhaka's air is more polluted than that of …
Twenty years ago, evolutionary biologists transplanted small poplations of Anolis sagrei lizards from Staniel Cay in the Bahamas to several nearby islands, in the hope that the reptiles would go extinct. Instead, the small brown lizards flourished even though their new homes differed dramatically from their original island. Resear- chers …
BREEZING IN: Ahmednagar Forgings Ltd (AFL), a Pune-based company, has set its sights on wind power generation and infrastructure development. "The diversification into generation of power by windmills and other renewable or non- conventional resources is being seriously considered in view of the incentives being offered by income tax and …
A recently discovered drug molecule can force the body to burn off calories without too much exercise. This molecule called CP-331679, which essentially mimics the action of a hormone called adrenaline, can boost the metabolism of rats by almost a third, without increasing their appetite. Announcing this at the American …
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 …
Bangkok has long been overwhelmed by the inevitable by-product of modern economic growth - waste. But now investors are swarming in to set up and operate what could be one of Southeast Asia's largest waste disposal programmes. After the Bangkok Municipal Authority invited tenders to set up and operate a …
will the universe go on expanding forever, becoming thinner and thinner? Or will it eventually slow to a halt, or even re-collapse into a state of near infinite density? The question about the ultimate fate of the universe is one of the most fascinating one for cosmologists. The answers are …
a rs 5 crore plan has been submitted by the government of West Bengal to the Centre in order to fight the high levels of arsenic and fluoride contamination in the groundwater of the state. The project which is yet to be cleared by the Centre, would investigate into the …
The great smog disasters of the past have made clear that air pollution can kill people in a matter of days: extremely high concentrations of air pollution building up under conditions of low wind speed and stable atmospheric conditions have been associated with excess deaths in the Meuse Valley, Belgium …
FivF. years ago, nobody had heard of :ntisense' technology. Now there are biotechnology companies based on it, and antisense drugs are in clinical trials. To understand antisense technology, consider the double helix structure of DNA that has two inter-locking strands that make up genes, Usually, only one of them makes …
Even as dolphin parks are going out of vogue in the West, they are becoming a craze in South-east Asian countries, much to the dismay of conservationists. These countries are keen on boosting tourism revenues by setting up oceanariums featuring captive marine mammals such as dolphins. But conservationists say that …
