The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
A Parliamentary panel has criticised the Environment Ministry for its “business as usual passing the buck approach” towards the high level of pollution in the country’s rivers. The panel has asked the ministry to ensure flow in the rivers by looking beyond the engineering approach to clean up the Ganga …
The famed rivers of India’s Gangetic plains are turning into “sewage”, threatening the life and health of millions of people dependent on them, warned a team of 11 environmental activists who cycled through the region covering around 1,800km in 27 days. In the capital last week on way to their …
The district administration has launched an inspection drive against city’s polluting tanneries to ensure availability of clean Ganga water for pilgrims during next year’s Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad. During checking, it was found that four out of the 80 tanneries closed down due to non-compliance of pollution norms were …
A team of Punjab Pollution Control Board officials collected samples of water mixed with ash and draining out from Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Plant, Ropar towards Sutlej river here today. The team led by Executive Engineer Joginder Singh from Mohali reached the site this morning and collected the samples …
The Brahmani river here is facing pollution threat. Release of ash water and other wastes from the 460-mw Talcher Thermal Power Station (TTPS) here into the Brahmani has ended up severely polluting the river. The Odisha State Pollution Control Board and the State Government have allegedly remained a mute spectator …
The holy waters of Beas river have gradually become a dustbin, sewerage and even a corpse-yard for the residents as well as visitors in Kullu. It's blue water, with white rapids, looks so beautiful from a distance, but the reality remains quite different. Be it hotels, restaurants, houses or even …
THE Gillard government has pledged $1.77 billion for water infrastructure to pump an extra 450 billion litres into the ailing Murray Darling basin to boost the health of the river system. The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and Water Minister, Tony Burke, were joined by the South Australian Premier, Jay Weatherill, …
The glistening waters and sandy beaches of the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area have drawn millions of tourists over the years. But the lake also collected wastes dumped into the Columbia River from one of the world's largest lead and zinc smelters, just across the border in Trail, British Columbia. …
Four Nigerian villagers took Royal Dutch Shell to court on Thursday in a landmark pollution case that campaigners said could open the door to more compensation claims against international companies. The fishermen and farmers, together with the Friends of the Earth campaign group, accuse the oil major of polluting land …
Thames Water has been fined £6000 at Basingstoke Magistrates Court for polluting the Bishopswood Stream in Tadley. The court heard how a blockage on a Thames Water public foul sewer caused sewage to discharge and overflow from an abandoned sewer into an inland freshwater pond and into the Bishopswood Stream …
Studying diversity and distribution patterns of species along elevational gradients and understanding drivers behind these patterns is central to macroecology and conservation biology. A number of studies on biogeographic gradients are available for terrestrial ecosystems, but freshwater ecosystems remain largely neglected. In particular, we know very little about the species …
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined six industrial groups and two brick fields Tk 1.1 crore on charges of polluting and grabbing rivers around the capital. The penalised industrial groups are -- Pran Group, Akij Group, Niki Dying, Atlantic Industries Ltd, ARS Washing Ltd, PA Knit Composite, and the …
Climate change, pollution, reckless fishing as well as a scarcity of water in lower estuarine area have pushed the giant Indus prawn, as well as many other species, to extinction, according to a recent study carried out by the department of freshwater biology and fisheries of the University of Sindh. …
Italian oil firm Eni said on Saturday an oil spill near its facilities in the Niger Delta had been contained, but local people said the pollution had spread and damaged their fishing. Eni said the spill occurred last week about 10 km (six miles) from the Obama flowstation in Bayelsa …
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a paper mill Tk 25 lakh in Munshiganj for illegally running the mill for seven years and polluting the river Meghna. A team from DoE detected that Pioneer Paper and Board Mills Ltd located in Gozaria area of the district, has been running …
A website that enables the collation and sharing of information on river restoration projects across Europe was launched yesterday. The web-based information tool, River Wiki, has been modelled around the Wikipedia website and will be used by European government agencies, engineers, ecologists, planners and other parties involved in restoring rivers. …
The Citizens Concern for Dams and Development (CCDD) has expressed its concern with the formation of a sub-group between the governments of India and Bangladesh for conducting joint surveys to assess the issues of Tipaimukh Dam and to facilitate an early construction of the proposed 1500 MW mega dam over …
Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered work on the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Amazon to resume, overturning a lower court order that suspended the project less than two weeks ago. Construction activities by the Norte Energia, the consortium building the dam, resumed immediately, according to the Associated Press. …
Environmental authorities in Central China's Hunan province have finished a detailed plan to tackle the heavy metal pollution that has for years ravaged the Xiangjiang River, a major tributary of the Yangtze River, according to an announcement on Wednesday. The pollution remediation plan of Xiangjiang -- one the country's most …
India yesterday handed over a copy of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of Tipaimukh Hydropower Project to Bangladesh as the two countries finalised the Terms of Reference for a joint study on the dam's impact. At the end of a two-day meeting of the Indo-Bangladesh joint subgroup on the proposed …
