Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
redwood Microsystems (rm), a California-based firm is looking ahead to market fluistor, the fluidic equivalent of a transistor. Fluistor regulates the flow of liquid down a pipe by squeezing it, just as a transistor uses an electrostatic field to restrict the flow of electrons. The fluister was invented in 1986 …
mining sites are important sources of pollution. Water released from mining sites is acidic and rich in metallic ions. The only forms of life that thrive in it are bacteria which grow by catalysing the oxidation reactions of the metals
The Web of secret Publishing information on a Web page seems like an invitation for everyone to look at it. But if international copyright lawyers have their way they could change the Net beyond recognition. The Berne Convention on copyright is due to be updated at a meeting next month …
The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has developed a bioreactor technology that would help increase output in gold mines. Metallurgy involving bioabsorption and bioremediation is a cheaper and an environment -friendly technology as it does not leave behind huge residues of arsenic and cyanide. The bio-reactor uses a genetically engineered …
NEW Delhi's Bhatti and Asola mines, abandoned after endless quarrying, were homes to hectares of extensively degraded gullies and ravines devoid of vegetation. Mining had threatened the hydrological balance as well as reclamation of the soil in this area. A team of botanists from Delhi University led by C R …
technologists at Battelle, a research institute based in Ohio, us, believe that the next 10 years will usher in amazing technology-based products that will alter our way of life forever. They will change the way we work, take care of ourselves and interact with others. Many of these new products …
a new study of breast cancer patients spread over 35 countries and involving 5,500 women holds out a note of optimism. At the recent European Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Conference at Vienna, Harry Bartelink, head of the department of radiation oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, said that the study …
Branching outThe Tree of Life (TOL) is being rated as the most worthwhile thing on the web by biologists. Planted by the Maddison brothers of the University of Arizona, US, on the World Wide Web, the TOL is growing fast and far to reach institutions around the globe. The tree …
the world's first anti-gravity device which could have an immense effect on everything from transport to power generation has been developed by researchers at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland. The device is said to significantly reduce the weight of any object placed above it. Such has been the …
The killing fields would never be the same again, thanks to the new-age mine detonating sensors, developed by Omnitech Robotics of Colorado, US. Rollers of a M60A3 Panther tank are fitted with high power sensors to detect an embedded mine from as far as 500 m away, a safe distance …
minewatch, the London-based research and policy non-governmental organisation ( ngo ) for global mine projects, has thrown a spanner in the expansion plans of the Indian coal mining giant Coal India Ltd ( cil ). The company, which is seeking a us $500 million World Bank fund, has been found …
an anti-auto movement in Canada has the people humming. The campaign was recently launched to wean more Canadians from the polluting automobile and encourage them to take to the eco-friendly bicycle. The other objective was to cheer up battle-weary environmentalists who were fighting drastic budget cuts on the environmental departments, …
today's materialistic attitude catalyses the use of resources in ways which ignore future consequences. The report under review studies the consequences of metal
ecological interests seem to have prevailed in a row involving the Yellowstone National Park, one of the best-known us sanctuaries and also a tourist attraction. The area was in the centre of a dispute when plans to start a gold mine - New World mine - just three km north-east …
Annual emissions of anthropogenic Hg to the atmosphere in different regions of the world during the last decade show an interesting dichotomy: the emissions in the developed countries increased at the rate of about 4.5–5.5% yr−1 up to 1989 and have since remained nearly constant, while in developing countries the …
The fears of the inhabitants of Serra Leste in the northern state of Para have come true. When the Brazilian government announced to the world at large the discovery of a gold mine that could probably be Latin America's biggest, the local residents weren't amused ( Down To Earth , …
the decision of the Kerala State Mineral Development Corporation Limited (ksmdcl) to join hands with the Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Limited (gmdc) in a mining venture, at Madayipara in north Kannur district, has invited the wrath of the villagers of Madayi. Residents of the village fear that the joint venture …
Once considered to be the backbone of the country's economy, gold mines have become a health hazard for mineworkers. Thousands of mineworkers in the country could be suffering from serious chest diseases as a result of working underground in the gold mines. The workers are left to fend for themselves …
In the ongoing battle over beef, UK suffered yet another defeat when the European Court of Justice rejected its demand for an immediate lifting of the ban on its beef exports. The court in Luxembourg dismissed UK's argument that the ban was purely an economic strategy tailored to protect continental …
nigeria and the Ogonis had brought to the world's attention one outrage; the remote province of Irian Jaya in Indonesia is highlighting another. Replace Royal Dutch Shell ( Down To Earth , Vol 4, No 14) with Freeport Indonesia, and the elements of the drama remain the same: a long …
