Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
The red spider mite (Panonychus ulmi) is threatening tea plantations in the Nilgiri hills. The infestation has been reported from a number of places including Coonoor, Kotagiri, Kundah and Udhagamandalam in Tamil Nadu, notes a statement issued by the Tea Board of India and the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Tamil Nadu. …
the Chhattisgarh government recently announced it would market a popular local alchoholic beverage made from a palm species unaware that a mysterious disease has slowly been killing the species over the past five years. The state's fishtail palm, popularly known as sulphi, has been drying up in state's Naxal-affected Bastar …
a new form of stem rust, a fungal disease of wheat, which has jumped from eastern Africa to Yemen, may affect the Indian wheat population in the next four years. Scientists are concerned but the good news is that some Indian varieties have been identified, which are resistant to the …
A virulent wheat disease now threatens the world's wheat crops. According to reports of various international agricultural research centres, this stem rust, known as ug99, has already spread from Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda over the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula. Studies of wind patterns in the region have led …
how about a link between plant diseases and interplanetary gravity? Researchers from Penn State University and the University of Virginia, tried to explain just that. Their study shows that the spread of plant diseases can be described by equations that model interplanetary gravity. It was published online in The American …
recycled paper-based compost can become a major weapon in the fight against a range of plant diseases, according to a study by the University of Warwick in the uk. Conducted by a team of scientists led by Ralph Noble, the study has shown that the replacement of around 20 per …
conversation stoppers: Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US have developed a new strategy to fight bacterial infections. They have designed a group of small organic molecules that block the chemical signals that the bacteria use to communicate in an effort to stop their spread. Called
Has only faulty diffusion of information held back the gains of Bt technology? Bt-cotton is a powerful illustration of the benefits offered by modern science to reduce rural poverty, improve food security, and protect the environment. But it requires proper management. In China, it's sad to see this technology die …
Malwa: This is Punjab's cotton country. Yields here were some of the highest in India till 1992-93, when the region reported its first major infestatin of the American bollworm. Punjab accounted for about 25 per cent of India's total cotton production in 1990 at 2.45 million bales (1 bale equals …
Pakistan swarmed: Pakistani crops are facing the risk of widespread locust attack and spread of Leishmaniasis disease. This is because the country's Plant Protection Department (PPD) cannot undertake aerial spraying of crops: all its aircraft are grounded, either due to fund shortage or technical problems. "Out of 20 aircraft, only …
a hybrid variety of pearl millet resistant to downy mildew (dm) has been developed jointly by researchers at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (icrisat) in Patancheru near Hyderabad and the Haryana Agricultural University (hau) located in Hissar. Caused by the fungus Sclerospora graminicola, dm is the …
The area under transgenic crop plantation has increased considerably in China. The country now ranks only behind the US, Argentina, Canada and Brazil in this respect, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on November 2, 2004. The area under transgenic crops in China was three million hectares in 2003, …
glyphosate, the world's most widely used herbicide, encourages the growth of toxic fungi that devastate wheat fields. This is the alarming finding of a study conducted by scientists working for the Canadian government. The conclusion could prove to be a major blow for backers of genetically modified (gm) wheat, especially …
the more virulent the pathogen, the less fertile it is, Australian scientists have discovered, showing that there is often a genetic trade-off between ferocity and fecundity in fungi that infect plants. Virulence is the ability of a pathogen, such as a fungus, to attack a host plant successfully. Fungi have …
khejri (Prosopis cineraria) trees are well equipped to withstand the parched climate of Rajasthan. But they are becoming easy prey for hungry beetles. A recent survey by the Arid Forest Research Institute (afri), Jodhpur, reveals that insect attacks have taken a heavy toll on khejri trees in the state. The …
A threat to food security looms large over east and central Africa. The insect which causes the cassava mosaic disease is rapidly spreading around the western side of Lake Victoria in Tanzania and parts of Congo. Experts warn that the affliction is threatening the livelihoods of many people whose daily …
Canada seems to have settled scores with the us by restricting imports of mop top virus-infected American potatoes. In 2000-2001, the us had imposed a ban on potatoes from Canada's Prince Edward Island after some were found to have potato warts. The Canadian officials are taking a series of measures …
climate change is triggering widespread outbreaks of diseases among wildlife along with spreading tropical diseases in human habitations previously unaffected by them. These were the findings of a comprehensive two-year study conducted by National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (nceas), a California-based research institute. The study is the first …
