Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
A new'hush house'just completed by British engineers for the Portuguese Air Force will drastically cut the noise of jet engines on ground tests to no more than a loud hum. The facility, located at one of the main strike bases at Monte Real, 130 km north of Lisbon, has been …
TO COMBAT noise pollution, United Kingdom's (UK) Building Research Establishment (BRE) recently undertook some innovative research aimed at providing noise-insulated dwellings to people. The project includes persuading architects to design houses with considerable insulation against cacophony and finding out construction material that keeps out the maddening noise (Spectrum, No 246). …
DON'T turn a deaf ear if someone told you that ears not only receive sounds but also produce them. Now, a team of scientists led by Nicholas L Powers at the Hearing Research Laboratory in Stat.e University of New York, USA, has confirmed that the inner ear sometimes acts as …
The Netherlands government's recent go-ahead to Amsterdam's Schiphol international airport to build another runway that will double its passenger load and treble its cargo capacity is meeting with increasing resistance from the Dutch. Their main grouse is the inevitable increase in engine din; even though 10,000 houses will be sound …
In a rare victory for the Sri Lankan public, a private firm, Shakkain Engineering Ltd, (SEL) was served with a court injunction to end quarrying and crushing operations at Kirindiwela in north Colombo. Environment Foundation lawyers pelted SEL in the case on behalf of the people. Within 1 year the …
THUNDEROUS rumble of automobiles and trucks through Austria's Brenner Pass threatens to shatter more than just the tranquility of the Tirol region. The Transit Treaty Austria had negotiated with Brussels as a condition for its European Community (ec) membership, seems to be in jeopardy. The treaty intended to restrict North-South …
CITY authorities and researchers generally react with a practised, silent ennui to noise contour-mappings of urban areas and the consequent short-lived furore about "impermissibly high noise levels". But for once now, the ministry of environment and forests (MEF), deafened by the amplifying din, has initiated an environmental impact assessment noise …
NOISE influences human behaviour both physiologically and psychologically. At 0 decibels, the bottomline of hearing, the weakest sound can be heard in an extremely quiet environment. A soft whisper registers 20 dB and sleep is disturbed when ambient noise levels exceed 35 dB. Conversation is generally conducted at about 70 …
December 1985: The Acoustical Society of India prepares a report on the need to legislate industrial and urban community noise pollution. The Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986, includes noise as an environmental pollutant for the first time. February 1989: A committee constituted by the Central Pollution Control Board sets standards for …
AIR, WATER, garbage, radon toxicity, sludge, noise. More than a part of our daily lives, these are perennial if hackneyed jargon. Few people would love to begin their mornings with them, fewer would care to read about them and even fewer disgruntled citizens would care to buy a book and …
THOSE who wax lyrical about the superior sound quality of compact discs over records or vice versa, do so merely for the sake of argument, conclude German music psychologists who found that only one out of 40 persons could distinguish between sounds from the two (New Scientist Vol 139, No …
Workers in noisy coal washeries have been shown to suffer considerable hearing loss. According to one study, 20 per cent of washery workers had mildly handicapped hearing -- hearing loss becomes a handicap when the ability to hear conversational speech is impaired -- while the others developed slight hearing impairment. …
MANUFACTURERS of hydraulic hammers are being forced to make them quieter, largely following environmental legislation which originated in Germany a decade ago and is rapidly spreading.'Most of them have come up with a solution which involves wrapping the harnmer in a mattress-like material. Krupp's Compact System, introduced three years ago, …
The International Conference on Plants & Environmental Pollution, organized by the CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology will take place from 3rd December to the 6th December 2014 in Lucknow, India. The conference will cover areas like Bio indication & Bioremediation, Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, Environmental Impact Assessment, Eco …
The International Conference on Renewable Energy and Environmental Engineering shall focus on sustainable and renewable sources of Energy including Biomass, Solar energy, Wind energy, Tidal energy, Geo-thermal energy along with Environmental Engineering related topics like Water Pollution, Drinking Water Quality Control, Wastewater Treatment, Air Pollution and Air Quality Control, Land …
Dr B Sengupta by Profession:Scientist, GOI/SG/IAS/IFS/Retd IAS. Specialization: Air Pollution Control, Noise Pollution, Toxicology, Vehicular Pollution
