To prepare blueprint for creek’s restoration within next three months CHENNAI: With the ecologically-sensitive Ennore Creek remaining in a state of neglect due to continuing industrial pollution, National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a new committee with a mandate to prepare a blueprint for restoration of the creek within the …
A vast cloud of ash spewing from a Chilean volcano disrupted air travel on Wednesday across much of South America, as heavy rains around the eruption site prompted fears of mudslides. Air traffic was sharply curtailed on the continent as the ash cloud drifted over Argentina, and into Brazil. Flights …
A volcano dormant for decades erupted in south-central Chile on Saturday, belching an ash cloud more than 6 miles high that blew over the Andes and carpeted a popular ski resort in neighboring Argentina. Fanned by winds, ash darkened the sky in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, a government official …
Northern Europe is set to again bear the brunt of air traffic disruption from Icelandic volcanic ash on Wednesday after 500 flights were canceled on Tuesday, but experts said the eruption was rapidly dying down. The ash from the Grimsvotn volcano has caused far fewer problems than ash from an …
An ash cloud from a volcano on Iceland shut down flights in northern Britain and elsewhere in north Europe on Tuesday and was heading to Germany, but officials expected no repeat of last year
Thousands of passengers were forced to abandon plans after ash from an Icelandic volcano caused the cancellation of 500 flights on Tuesday, but officials said Europe's airways would be less disrupted than a year ago. As the eruption of Iceland's most active volcano began to run out of steam, a …
Airlines began cancelling flights to Britain late on Monday because of an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano reaching its airspace, although experts expected no repeat of travel chaos from an eruption a year ago. Britain's Met Office forecast the plume of ash from the Grimsvotn volcano would cover the …
Reykjavik: Britain said flights could be disrupted from parts of the country on Tuesday by an ash cloud billowing from an Icelandic volcano, but said it did not expect a repeat of last year's travel chaos. Britain's Met Office is predicting the plume of ash from the Grimsvotn volcano would …
Paris, The Grimsvotn volcano burst into life on Saturday in what experts said was a stronger er- uption than its last outbreak in 2004. The plume from the volcano shot 20 km into the sky. ASH COULD REACH NORTH SCOTLAND BY MIDDAY TUESDAY Ash from an erupting Icelandic volcano could …
As this village emptied around her, and the Mount Merapi volcano boomed not too far uphill behind a veil of dust, Puranti stood crying here on Sunday afternoon, frozen with indecision. A few hours earlier, her relatives had gone back to fetch fresh clothes in their village — farther uphill …
DHENKANAL:A Bid by Bhusan Steel Limited (BSL) to construct an ash pond is mired in controversy after the district administration, the Rehabilitation and Peripheral Development Advisory Committee (RPDAC) rejected it on the grounds of stiff resistance from villagers. The Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) too refused permission for its …
London: Aviation officials closed airports in northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland on Sunday due to a drifting, dense cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland. All airports in Northern Ireland were shut down along with others in northern England
FLIGHTS to and from Ireland and Scotland faced further disruption on Wednesday because of a cloud of abrasive volcanic ash drifting south from a volcano erupting in Iceland. Two airports serving Glasgow, Scotland
DC directs PPCB to investigate matter Awakening to the grave issue of dumping of highly toxic industrial ash in the rural belt as highlighted in The Tribune columns, Deputy Commissioner Kahan Singh Pannu today held meeting with Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) authorities and directed to investigate the problem. It …
Muradpura (Amritsar), April 28 The city industrial units have apparently found a new place for dumping their highly toxic petroleum ash, if the huge heaps of the waste in this village are any indication. The toxic ash is being dumped alongside the roads in the rural belt in a clandestine …
Brussels: In the ageless contest between man and nature, nature reasserted its primacy for an entire week, crippling air travel around the world and sending shudders through the global economy. Man is now studying the lessons of the volcanic eruption to see how to, if not tame it, at least …
SOME natural disasters, like the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, strike out of the blue. Only with hindsight do they come to look like the sort of thing people should have been prepared for. Other events get dress rehearsals. The eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in the south of Iceland was one …
