Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
A massive and growing landslide shoved a quarter-mile of State Route 410 into the Naches River, forcing the river to find a new course and causing some flooding in the sparsely populated valley on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range. No injuries were reported from the slide early Sunday …
Amid growing environmental concerns attached to the river linking project, an expert has come up with an "eco-friendly" method to connect the water bodies with grids so that states can share the resources according to their requirements. "Interlinking of Rivers project (ILR) is not viable in its present form. We …
LUCKNOW/ BAHRAICH: With their habitat under two meters of water, survival poses a tough challenge to tiger and leopard cubs in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve of Uttar Pradesh. Flood situation in Bahraich and Pilibhit has worsened dramatically over the past three days after Nepal released over 5 lakh cusec of water …
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Thursday dashed of a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urging him to direct the Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest to withdraw the approval to Kerala to conduct a survey for a new dam across the inter-state Mullaperiyar river. In …
Almost a year after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the 450 MW Baglihar power project on Chenab river in Jammu & Kashmir, the Union government is all set to push work on the second power project (Baglihar-II) on priority basis. The high-level team comprising over a dozen Central secretaries that …
Guntur: The cup of woes was overflowing for the Andhra Pradesh government with a fresh breach in Krishna river submerging a whole town in chief minister K Rosaiah
ALARMED over the sharp drop in the number of freshwater dolphins surviving in river systems across the country, the Manmohan Singh government, acting on a proposal made by Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, on Monday declared dolphins as a national aquatic animal. The animal has been declared as a
Tipaimukh hydraulic dam (THD) to be constructed by our giant neighbor India in the upstream at a distance of 200km (direct distance 100 km) from Amalshid border of Jakigang of Sylhet district of Bangladesh followed by Fulertal Barrage in 100 km downstream of Tipaimukh dam and 100 upstream of Bangladesh …
Hyderabad: Kurnool town on Friday night was in the imminent danger of being completely submerged with flood water at some places getting more than 10 feet deep. By Saturday afternoon, the town is likely to be sumberged under as much as 15-20 feet of water, putting into peril the lives …
HYDERABAD: The Krishna river and its two major tributaries in Andhra Pradesh, Tungabhadra and Handri, rose menacingly to a level not seen in 100 years after they received unprecedented quantities of inflows, bringing both Kurnool and the pilgrim centre of Mantralayam under neck-deep water, besides inundating some 100 villages in …
There are indications that the immense potential for river tourism offered by the mighty Brahmaputra is slowly being harnessed. Two long-distance luxury cruisers run by Assam Bengal Navigation
Traditionally agriculturalists of western Madhya Pradesh had adopted practices that made most use of the soil moisture and conserved the ecosystem to ensure a sustainable output. However, from the decade of the 1970s a more intensive agricultural system was introduced involving the use of hybrid seeds, chemical fertilisers and higher …
A study was conducted to develop a stochastic time series model for prediction of annual rainfall and runoff for Lidder catchment of Lidder river. The study area is one of the macro watershed of Lidder river and has an area of 1,243 km. The developed model is based on 15 …
The Greenpeace report, Poisoning the Pearl, provides a snapshot of industrial water pollution caused by the discharge of hazardous chemicals in the Pearl River Delta (PRD). Researchers sampled and analysed effluents from the discharge pipes of five manufacturing facilities located in the PRD. Water pollution is one of China
The inhibitory effects of heavy metals on self-purification processes in surface water were studied. Toxicities of the metals were evaluated on the grounds of the results of the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) test in river water.
