Order of the High Court of Gujarat in the matter of Samsuddin Jainulabiddin Shaikh & Others Vs The State of Gujarat & Others dated 06/05/2025. A petition was filed by 58 people who are residing near Chandola lake, Ahmedabad. The petitioners have constructed hutments along the periphery of Chandola lake. …
GLOF is low-frequency event, but it often causes enormous loss and damage of life, property and human environment in downstream regions. The economic losses caused by GLOF are much higher than the project costs to early consolidate moraine dam and release flood waters. Glacial lake outbursts can be very difficult …
Building violations lead to huge losses for residents; FTL limits ignored. Hyderabad: Unauthorised cellars in apartments have become a curse for residents of Nizampet, Bachupally and other areas of Cyberabad which have been badly hit by rain for the past two days. While rainwater has been cleared from several localities, …
Heaps of mud dumped in the downstream of Varthur lake. Following complaints of encroachment of Varthur lake, a team of officials from Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) on Tuesday inspected the area. BDA is the custodian of Varthur lake. A BDA officials told DH that there was encroachment at one of …
Quantifying rates of primary production and respiration is fundamental to understanding ecosystem function. This study utilized high-frequency time series, buoy-based sensor data to estimate daily primary production and respiration rates during the summers of 2012–2015 in southern Green Bay, Lake Michigan. Highly coherent diel oscillations of dissolved oxygen concentrations in …
California has experienced a dry 21st century capped by severe drought from 2012 through 2015 prompting questions about hydroclimatic sensitivity to anthropogenic climate change and implications for the future. We address these questions using a Holocene lake sediment record of hydrologic change from the Sierra Nevada Mountains coupled with marine …
Nagpur: Immersion of idols of Lord Ganesh commenced on Tuesday. Immersions continued in lakes excluding Sonegaon despite a ban, thanks to negligence of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) towards their own bylaws of prohibiting immersion of idols in water bodies. The civic authorities are supposed to …
Even after two extensions, four collector-appointed teams to verify full tank level (FTL) pillars of the Upper Lake, failed to present the complete report before National Green Tribunal (NGT), central bench, here on Thursday. The green panel has now issued an order to get 26 remaining pillars verified and mentioned …
Kolhapur: The National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has warned the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) against executing its project to revive historical Rankala lake, which involves clearing up of the sediment. NEERI tabled a report regarding its findings to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) presented on Friday. The report was …
The State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) has denied environmental clearance to 10 mega construction projects --including upmarket apartment complexes -in the city, for alleged encroachment of lakes and drains. An environmental clearance by the SEIAA is mandatory for projects with built-up area above 20,000 sqm. SEIAA's list of projects …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Chinnapaiyan Vs Tamil Nadu State Pollution Control Board & Others dated 26/08/2016 regarding dredging, quarrying, mining and transporting of minerals in any manner from Veppampatti Lake near Sarabanga River, Salem District, Tamil Nadu without obtaining prior Environmental …
CHENNAI: Barely six months after the renovated Chetpet lake was opened to the public, the state government is planning to add more facilities for visitors. The move comes as the lake has become a popular getaway spot for residents in the middle of the city. In a bid to increase …
Nagpur: The dissolved oxygen level at Telangkhedi lake is alarmingly low and will fall further post Ganesh immersion which might result in collapse of the entire lake ecology. This came to the fore during a pre-immersion water monitoring programme which was conducted by city-based Green Vigil Foundation in association with …
Steps should be taken at the earliest to de-silt and deepen Sembakkam lake, remove encroachments that have eaten into it, and arrest the discharge of sewage into the sprawling waterbody,” said M. Ravi, secretary, Sri Sarvamangala Nagar Residents Association, Chitlapakkam. The Association is waging a battle for the lake’s restoration, …
The commissioner, who submitted his report to the court recently, has identified 3.95 acres of encroachment on the lake, which is located on survey number 112 of Byrasandra village, Varthur hobli, in Bengaluru East taluk. A Karnataka High Court commissioner’s report has confirmed encroachment of Byrasandra lake and identified Bagmane …
BHOPAL: It's no surprise residents of Bairagarh and surrounding areas have to frequently get their water purifiers serviced. For long, residents have been complaining about the quality of piped water supplied by the civic body which has a very foul odour and tastes bad. impurities in the water frequently clogs …
Bhopal: Four teams appointed by the collector have failed to complete the given task of verifying all the pillars marking full tank level (FTL) of Upper Lake in the time limit specified by the National Green Tribunal's central bench. In its orders on Thursday, the tribunal has now directed them …
In a first for any urban body in the country, BMC will harness solar energy to pump water from Upper Lake. 40% of the city relies for drinking water from the Upper Lake. BMC commissioner Chhavi Bhardwaj said BMC has tied up with a leading solar solutions company that will …
Raising concern about drying up of man-made Sukhna Lake during peak summer season, HC expressed the need to devise “alternative and artificial measures” Raising concern about drying up of man-made Sukhna Lake during peak summer season, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday expressed the need to devise “alternative …
New research blames rising temperatures over the last century as the key cause of decline in one of the world's most important fisheries. Lake Tanganyika is Africa's oldest lake and its fish are a critical part of the diet of neighbouring countries. But catches have declined markedly in recent decades …
The Supreme Court on Monday asked all builders in the buffer zones of Bengaluru's famed lakes and wetlands to push back their projects 75 metres from the edge of these water bodies and refused to halt demolitions initiated by the local authority to open up drains discharging excess water from …
