Affidavit by the District Magistrate, Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh in compliance with the NGT orders (November 6, 2023, July 3, 2024 and September 23, 2024). The matter related to encroachment and disappearance of the ponds in Kanpur Dehat district. There were a total of 1975 ponds which have been reduced …
A huge bloom of toxic algae has spread in the Baltic Sea, forcing people off beaches but delighting scientists who research cancer and antibiotics The blue-green algae or cyanobacteria is primarily caused by the excess of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus used in food production, in the water. Exceptionally …
Coastal marine food webs could be in danger of collapse as a result of rising carbon dioxide levels, according to our new research. The study shows that although species such as algae will receive a boost, the positive effects are likely to be cancelled out by the increased stress to …
About a hundred miles north of Miami on the Atlantic Coast, the town of Stuart is a picturesque waterfront community — with homes, restaurants and parks overlooking the St. Lucie Estuary. But in many areas now, when you approach the water, the first thing you notice is the smell. "There's …
Florida has declared a state of emergency due to the blue-green algae outbreak on the Florida coastline. This causes the waterways and beaches of Florida to be flooded with toxic elements that affects the lives of the marine animals and triggers skin rashes. Florida Governor declared a state of emergency …
A report concludes that blooms of toxic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, are a poorly monitored and underappreciated risk to recreational and drinking water quality in the United States, and may increasingly pose a global health threat. Several factors are contributing to the concern. Temperatures and carbon dioxide levels have risen, …
For at least fifty years, phytoplankton and algae blooms have been a regular occurrence in summer on Lake Erie. However, researchers say this year the toxic blooms could reach record levels. The bloom is visible as swirls of green in western Lake Erie and in Lake St. Clair, and researchers …
A long-term $60 million action plan to save Lake Burley Griffin has been handed to the ACT government but it comes with a warning that the iconic waterway would never be a pristine lake. A taskforce, made up of ACT government agencies, including Actew Corporation, the Commonwealth and surrounding NSW …
Blue green algae (BGA) possess immense morphological and metabolic diversity and can be used in economic developmentand environment management like wastewater treatment, land reclamation, production of fine chemicals, atmospheric fixation ofnitrogen, production of methane fuel, conversion of solar energy, therapeutic functions and so on. This review presents applicationsof BGA in …
Great Lakes shorelines are becoming clogged by algae blooms fed by agricultural run-off, while invasive mussels decimate the food chain in deeper waters, an environmental group said on Tuesday. The five lakes, which contain one-fifth of the world's fresh water and supply tens of millions of people, may be "veering …
A field experiment was conducted at the research farm of Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi during 3 wet and dry seasons of 2003-06 in rice-wheat cropping system. In this experiment different treatments comprising organic amendments such as blue green algae, vermicompost and farm yard manure applied alone or in …
Tiny algae and a whale native to the Pacific have crossed a thawing Arctic Ocean in what may portend a marine invasion threatening Atlantic fish stocks, scientists said on Sunday. The Pacific algae, absent from the North Atlantic for 800,000 years according to fossil records, apparently returned after climate change …
The green slime that covers ponds is an efficient factory for turning sunlight into fuel, but growing it on an industrial scale will take ingenuity. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/n7352_supp/full/474S015a.html
Experts Put On Fast Track Way To Make Fossil Fuel Alicante (Spain): In a forest of tubes eight metres high in eastern Spain scientists hope they have foundthefuelof tomorrow:bio-oil produced with algae mixed with carbon dioxide from a factory. Almost 400 of the green tubes, filledwith millionsof microscopic algae, cover …
A field experiment was conducted on rice seed production in rice-wheat cropping system to find out the effect of application of biofertilizers and urea on the grain yield and quality attributes of rice varieties at the research farm of Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India during 2 wet seasons …
Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has prepared a plan to install 17 Floating Solar Powered High Flow Circulators/Solar Bees and 10 Portable Wastewater Treatment Plants worth of Rs 400 million at Rawal Lake to clean contaminations from its water, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday. They said WASA had submitted …
Plymouth (England): Can algae save the world again? The microscopic green plants cleaned up the earth's atmosphere millions of years ago and scientists hope they can do it now by helping remove greenhouse gases and create new oil reserves. In the distant past, algae helped turn the earth
Borculo (Netherlands): Set amid cornfields and cow pastures in Holland is a shallow pool that is rapidly turning green with algae, harvested for animal feed, skin treatments, biodegradable plastics
