Air quality is a major challenge globally and is the single greatest environmental risk to human health. More than 90 per cent of the world’s population lives in areas that exceed the World Health Organization guideline for healthy air. In North America, Canada and the United States of America have …
Five countries that created a treaty nearly four decades ago to protect polar bears through controlled hunting issued a statement that called climate change "the most important long-term threat" to the bears. The statement came in Tromso, Norway, on Thursday at the end of a three-day meeting of scientists and …
PARIS: Updating the waterwheel to generate electricity and compete with solar and wind As sources of green power go, generating electricity from hydropower, using a creek or stream on your local property, has a lot to recommend it. Provided you have a stream, that is, and it flows fast and …
A professor in electrical engineering at the Delhi IIT will team up with a researcher of the University of British Columbia to conduct joint research on the most pressing problems of wireless communication system design. The award to the Indo-Canadian team is at the behest of the International Research Chairs …
Environmentally friendly construction is not just a fad perpetrated by eco activists; it saves money, creates jobs and improves the quality of life for residents who live in green buildings, as well as slashing greenhouse gas emissions. Green building offers a viable solution to help combat climate change because projects …
The International Fuel Quality Center recently released a ranking of the top 100 countries based on the lowest benzene limits in gasoline. Colombia was at the top of the ranking with the lowest limit, followed by Canada and Luxembourg.
Water quality trading is gaining traction in a number of watersheds around the world. It is a market-based approach that works alongside water quality regulation to improve water quality, providing flexibility in how regulations are met and potentially lowering regulatory compliance and abatement costs. The research identified 57 water quality …
AHMEDABAD: In its march towards spreading a green message in other countries, after Sri Lanka and Australia, Centre for Environmental Education (CEE) is now eyeing Canada. The city-based NGO will soon start its centre there and aiming to partner with the country for dealing with climate change issues. While India-Canada …
Genetically modified crops are continuing to spread across the world, according to the leading annual survey of GM in agriculture, published yesterday. The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) said the global area of GM crops rose from 114m hectares in 2007 to 125m hectares in 2008, …
ROYAL Dutch Shell, censured twice by Britain's ad police for exaggerating its commitment to green issues, is hoping to avoid controversy in its latest ad campaign. It isn't clear if it has succeeded. The Anglo-Dutch oil giant drew fire from activist groups like Green- peace and Friends of the Earth …
FlutterBy: European butterflies might face extinction if global temperatures continue to rise as predicted over the next 70 years, a new study said. In the worst-case scenario, 95 per cent of the land will become too warm for 70 butterfly species if the average temperatures rise by 4.1o C by …
NEW DELHI: After the US, it is the Canadians and British who are eyeing nuclear power deals in India. Officials from the nuclear power industry of the United Kingdom and Canada will be here from Monday to talks on the subject. The two teams are being led by high-profile ministers
Date: 08-Jan-09 Country: CANADA Author: Jeffrey Jones CALGARY - Environmental groups took the first step on Wednesday to convince a court to charge Canada's largest oil sands producer with the deaths of 500 ducks, an incident that brought worldwide attention to the ecological impact of the huge energy resource. Ecojustice, …
Smaller local treatment plants in place of a large central facility allow for considerable economical advantages including the reduction of costly collection infrastructure as well as providing the opportunity for smaller incremental-as-needed expansion phasing. Significant environmental and practical advantages also exist, including the possibility of reclaimed water re-use or disposal …
The purpose of the new edition is to introduce the basic concepts of water quality and how it is related to ecosystem and human health; and to present an overview and assessments of current and upcoming global water quality issues with examples from around the world. It also includes a …
With the technological advances of small plant performance and reliability, decentralized wastewater treatment plants have now become eminently feasible.