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 …
IN JAPAN, elementary school magazines have been selling particularly well recently due to the mini easy-to-use acid rain measuring kits attached to the inside of the magazines' back cover. A chemical is placed in a small plastic container. When acid rain falls on it, the color changes, and from this …
FROM the look of things, the age of environmental justice has arrived: the courts everywhere in the country, especially in Gujarat and Delhi, are issuing orders for the closure of polluting units right, left and centre. The NGOs are exuberant. The workers are worried about losing their jobs. State governments …
MELANCHOLIA, with its miasma of tearful pomp and self-flagellating candour, is turning out to be the US's most unforgettable characteristic. Take Republican senator Bob Dole. "I regret that we have failed the American people again," he said, honking of elephantine angst. His attempts 'last month to ram the Regulatory Reform …
The iron hand of the law has fastened on the Rourkela steel plant. Owned by the Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), it has been served a show-cause notice for bucking the Anti-Pollution Act. Ten units of the plant have been found to be emitting excessive iron and coal particles, …
... and also eyes, vegetation, forests, crops, buildings, statues, monuments .... The latest reports of the World Health Organisation show that our cities are becoming like throwbacks to an Auschwitzian nightmare. Gas chambers. More than 600 million people live in cities which have dangerously high levels of sulphur dioxide (S02) …
BAD roads make for unsafe driving. Now, researchers at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK think that they can relieve the problem of worn- out roads by using a longer-lasting surface made of concrete instead of asphalt (New Scientist, Vol 146, No 1980). Each time a heavy …
In an effort to save the world's dwinilling stock of fish, pharmaceutical and nufritign products industry are turning towards algae-derived polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). Two firmis - Scotia Pharmaceuticals from Britain and Heliosynthese Research and Development from France - will harvest the PUFAs from microalgae grown in specially created photo-bioreacton …
EVEN x-ray machines and metal detection chambers are not always able to detect hidden guns and knives. But if a us $2 million'sclipme of the us Department of justice succeeds, it will become tougher to slip concealed arms and drugs past security systems. The department is evaluating 3 competing technologies …
The Clean Air Campaign organised by Friends of the Earth, Scotland chapter, is billed as a fun event with a serious message. Designed for everyone to do their bit of cleaning up, the campaign began in March and will continue till November this year. The events slated for June include …
RESEARCHERS from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in A Oakland, California, have linked smoking with facial wrinkling among Whites and say that women may be more susceptible S, than men (American Journal of Public Health, Vol 85, No 1). The research team led by 00 Virginia L Ernster, decided on …
BRAZIL has been a favourite hunting ground for mysterious killer viruses. Unknown illnesses, giving occasion to much brainracking in medical circles, have been its bane. Four deaths recently in Cuiaba in the state ofMato Grosso - mortalities attributed to a virus called the Hanta virus ( closely related to the …
A GROUP of American and British scientists claims to have developed an instrutment to measure the levels of fine air-borne particles from vehicle exhausts, which cause respiratory disorders in thousands of people each year. The vibrating tube impactor (VTI), developed by scientists led by David Booker Of AEA Technology, along …
Bacteria that feast on garbage may provide an environmentally benign way to dispose household waste, say British engineers who are testing a new anaerobic digester -- that does not require air -- for treating dustbin waste. The bacteria, which are anaerobic, break down the organic portion of household waste and …
Endangered species may just about find a safe haven in the Arabian desert. Regional governments in the oil-rich Gulf have poured in billions of dollars into the transformation of dry, dusty deserts to terraform them into natural sanctuaries. Among the recent success stories is Saudi Arabia's transformation of a vast …
A new dam intended to solve a water crisis has, paradoxically, created new problems for the people of Gwadar in Pakistan. Environmentalists fear that in the absence of a proper drainage sys- tem, the increased water supply,will devastate Gwadar's beautiful sandy beaches. "It is necessary to develop a proper drainage-system …
It is a victory of sorts for activists in the oil-ricb Ogoni region of southeast Nigeria who have been fighting a long-sustained battle against oil giant Shell Petroleum. They claim that Shell has ruined the environment by peppering the land with wells and smoky refineries. Their leader and the founder …
A euphemistically named agreement for the "sustainable development of the Mekong river basin" has generated a storm of controversy. The rum- blings were heard almost as soon as the accord was signed between the so-called Lower Mekong countries - Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam - in the Ist week of …
Asphyxiated Dhaka dwellers in Bangla" are hoping for a breather from air pollution. In response to a petition filed by a citizen in March-end, the Bangladesh government was issued a Hijb Court show cause notice asking why it should not be directed to take action against air pollution. Mohiuddin Faruque, …
The Arab League is putting up stiff resistance to us plans to push through an indefinite extension of the Nuclear Non -proliferation Treaty. In late March the group of Arab nations took a decision to stand united on a limited renewal of the treaty, and thereby keep up pressure on …
Peace and economic fortune in West Asia has arrived at a cost too dear to measure in purely financial terms: the environment is drowning under the sheer weight of tourism. The coral reefs of the Red Sea are disintegrating as tourists snorkel dive to watch sea life in these clear …
