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 …
The Bangkok city administration revived its anti-exhaust campaign by launching 20 motorcycle patrol teams to nab smoke-belching vehicles that may have eluded stationary checkpoints. The teams, each with one city police officer and one traffic police officer, will prowl city streets twice a day. Their initial focus will be Sukhumvit …
Top environment officials from China and the us will meet in Beijing to exchange ideas and discuss specific cooperation schemes. Carol Browner, administrator of the us Environmental Protection Agency ( epa ) visited Beijing recently. Several letters of intent on Sino- us environment cooperation are expected to be signed. The …
A few years ago, at a public meeting organised by the Centre for Science and Environment on air pollution, T N Seshan - who retired in 1997 as the Chief Election Commissioner of India - had jokingly pointed out that there are more laws in India per square inch of …
they stand ready to zap, vaporise or otherwise transmogrify the "bad" chemicals into good ones and they are not a bunch of cartoon heroes. They are the National Science Foun-dation(nsf)-funded next generation of pollution fighters. Take plasma generators. At the University of Illinois, usa , engineer Mark Kushner and his …
CAN one think of a pollutant indicator growing for years in his backyard? Not really. Today, hi-tech equipments and systems are much in demand. But plants like tulsi, neern and peepal have been in use for ages. Have we ever tried to analyse the rationale behind their contined use? The …
It was an experiment to clear the air in polluted Sao Paulo, South America's biggest city, so as to allow Paulistanos breathe more easily. Motorists, depending on the last digit of the licence plate, were asked to leave their cars at home for one working day of the week in …
in the us, the region in and around Los Angeles has always suffered the country's worst air pollution. Previously, air quality management plans (aqmps) had followed the command-and-control policy implemented by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (scaqmd), the environmental agency responsible for air pollution control in the Los …
Following economic liberalisation, China has seen an upward swing in profits and pollution. The government is now planning to expand a scheme in which factories have to pay a fee according to how much they pollute. The scheme is focussed mainly on curbing the emission of sulphur dioxide. Millions of …
motorists in the country can now contribute to cleaner air by spending a few extra bucks on a device which detects pollutants in the air and then releases oxygen. The gadget, controlled by a microprocessor, promises to save drivers from a hazards of carbon monoxide. Named
boston's Logan Airport in the us now has cleaner buses to transport passengers. These shuttle buses are designed to run on a blend consisting of 80 per cent diesel and 20 per cent
METAL foundries pollute the atmosphere by throwing up dust and giving off bad ~dour. While the former is easy to remedy, the latter poses a challenge. The vat-shaped biofilters designed to solve the problem are filled with moistened wood chips inoculated with bacteria. The air from the exhaust flows via …
JOHN Van der Sande, professor of material science at the MIT and his team are using a new technique to compile information on all types of soot. This knowledge will be used to detect the exact sources of pollution. The library of sootprints will be based on the molecular structure …
A new smog-eating automotive technology has been developed by Englehard Corporation of the US. The new automobile coating, designed to destroy ozone and carbon monoxide is now being evaluated by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). If the CARB finds the coating effective, "it could be one of the black …
HE green bug has finally bitten the Supreme Court. In a recent statement on March 30, Chief Justice A M Ahmadi declared that all official cars belonging to the court would soon run on compressed natural gas (CNG) instead of petrol or diesel. Natural gas is a gaseous hydrocarbon fuel …
The Government of India announced its decision in 1973 to set up a 6 million tonne per year Petroleum Oil Refinery at Mathura under the Indian Oil Corporation of India. Some apprehensions were expressed about the possible adverse effects on the historic monuments in the Agra-Mathura region from the gaseous …
Clean-air campaigners can't always pin down the source of a pollutant, by no means an easy task at best. Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a way to solve the problem. They are studying micro-structures in soot that should, in theory, trace each particle's history and …
THE BOOM over houses not only set windows rattling but made insomniacs out of deep snorers. That was a couple of decades ago, at least abroad. So the airlines tried to go in for whispering engines. After all this hullaballoo and court cases against erring airports, a definition of acceptable …
SCIENTISTS at the University of California at Berkeley in the US have developed a method that cuts to 1/10th the cost of cleaning up nitrogen oxides produced when fossil fuels are burned (Nature, Vol 369, No 6476). The new technology is also environmentally less harmful than the techniques currently used …
Plants have long been known as air purifiers, but now Paul Jackson, a microbiologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is using plant cells to purify liquids contaminated with heavy metals like barium and uranium, and with the residue of explosives like TNT. Jackson's "green filter" consists of a silica-based powder …
A RECENT UN accord on acid rain committed its 26 signatory nations to drastic cuts in sulphur dioxide emissions -- largely responsible for the phenomenon that wreaks havoc with humans, crops, lakes and forests. The cuts, scheduled for up to 2005 AD, range from 30 per cent for Canada to …
