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. …
Polluted, poisonous and immune to popular efforts to enforce a clean-up: Tai Lake is a metaphor for the state of China's politics The plain-clothes police are always there, watching Xu Jiehua. When she goes out, two of them follow by motorcycle. Sometimes an unmarked car joins them, tailing her closely …
Siberia's Lake Baikal has warmed faster than global air temperatures over the past 60 years, which could put animals unique to the world's largest lake in jeopardy, US and Russian scientists said. The lake has warmed 1.21 degrees Celsius (2.18 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1946 due to climate change, almost three …
Ministry of Environment and Forests has been implementing the National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP) since 2001 for conservation and management of polluted and degraded lakes in urban and semi-urban areas. The major objectives of NLCP include encouraging and assisting state Governments for sustainable management and conservation of lakes. Lakes being …
The district administration has put a ban on catching all kinds of fishes in Kaptai Lake for an indefinite period from May 1. The ban, which will be applicable for fishermen as well as common people, will include netting, marketing, preservation, drying and transportation of fishes, district administration sources said. …
SIDDHARTHA KRISHNAN AND PRIYADARSANAN DHARMA RAJAN God's own country is an epithet commonly used for Kerala. Boat races, idyllic waters, emerald green paddy fields, carelessly strewn banana plants attract tourists who laze on boat decks and survey the tranquil rural scenes. But they do not know that all is not …
At least three children died of waterborne diseases in three days and on an average one person was losing life every fortnight in the villages on the embankment of Manchhar Lake because its water had become too toxic for human consumption, found a survey on Sunday. The survey conducted by …
UNLESS there is heavy rain in the Murray-Darling Basin over the rest of the year, 90% of South Australians face environmental catastrophe caused by the movement of heavy metals in solution up the river by osmosis. Osmosis is the process by which any solution that is in higher concentration in …
Nearly 300 residents of over 10 societies near Charkop lake, a 50-year-old water body, fear that construction on the lake is going to adversely affect them in the coming monsoon. In February, the residents had raised a red flag over partial filling of the six-acre lake for a housing project. …
The worst fears about the Garden City's once salubrious temperature rising beyond comfort levels appear to be coming true... A recent study by the Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, has revealed that the temperature has shot up by an alarming three degrees in the past decade alone! The study, conducted …
In a "green" state, an environmental disaster looms FEW people visit the Salton Sea these days, though when the wind is in the right quarter tens of thousands can smell it. The shores of California's biggest lake are studded with dead fish and dilapidated mobile homes. Photographers occasionally use it …
An agreement which defines acceptable use of water from North America's Great Lakes has been thrashed out by farmers, industrialists, environmentalists and politicians. The Great Lakes in Northeast America are a huge natural resource but fears have been raised that piping the water to parched areas of the USA would …
Until recently, most assumed that the American West was a natural dust bowl where every cowboy breathed true grit. Now it seems that the dust was mostly man-made and came with the cows. Head 'em up, move 'em out - and choke on the dust. Before the cows and the …
The polluted Hirohalli village lake on the outskirts of the City now has rare visitors: the critically endangered spot billed pelicans. Industrial sewage and domestic waste, construction debris along with carcasses of animals and birds and religious offerings end up at the lake. But the winged visitors are undeterred by …
This report presents a wide-ranging review of arctic climate impact science. It spans the width of subject areas, covering impacts on physical and biological systems, as well as on humanity. The report presents the scientific evidence for arctic climate change impacts in review sections, each of which targets a particular …
Rivers in the southwest coast of India are under immense pressure due to various kinds of human activities among which indiscriminate extraction of construction grade sand is the most disastrous one. The situation is rather alarming in the rivers draining the Vembanad lake catchments as the area hosts one of …
The Aral Sea in Central Asia was the fourth-largest lake on the planet in 1960. By 2007 it had shrunk to 10 percent of its original size. Widespread, wasteful irrigation of the deserts along the Amu and Syr rivers, which feed the Aral, cut the freshwater inflow to a trickle. …
STRESSING ITS NEED: Tiruvallur Collector Rajendra Kumar speaking at a function to launch water bodies' adoption programme at SRM Eswari Engineering College recently. In an initiative seeking to make protection of ponds, tanks and lakes a mass movement, 10 water bodies across Tamil Nadu were adopted recently by Neer Exnora. …
Water bodies are subject to many important changes in due course of time. Therefore, a comparative study on Lake Jaisamand and Lake Pichhola were undertaken from July, 2004 to April, 2005. (2007)
Ansupa Lake, one of the two freshwater lakes found in Orissa, is vanishing slowly. Another freshwater lake, i.e. named Saro, in Puri District, has already been wiped out from the wetland maps of Orissa due to anthropogenic pressure. (Correspondence)
Survey in progress to demarcate boundaries of waterbodies; encroachments to be removed SPRUCING UP: An earth-mover on the job around the Perungudi Lake recently as part of the lake rehabilitation project of the Public Works Department. CHENNAI: The Public Works Department (PWD) has geared up its efforts to remove encroachments …
