Sedimentation
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding waste disposal in Ghazipur drain, Delhi, 28/05/2025
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents Welfare Association Savita Vihar Vs Irrigation & Flood Control Department & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant raised the grievance against throwing of construction debris and sewage obstruction in the Ghazipur drain. According to the applicant this drain flows behind …Palaeoliquefaction evidence of prehistoric large/great earthquakes in North Bihar, India
The Himalayan arc, 40% of which ruptured in the last two centuries, has witnessed half a dozen large to great earthquakes including the 1833 and 1934 BiharSiltation problems in Sukhna lake in Chandigarh, NW India and comments on geohydrogical changes in the Yamuna-Satluj region
During the last hundred years or so, deforestation and wind-water borne soil erosion have been steadily increasing and have now become the major environmental problems the world over. The man-made Sukhna Lake brought into existence through blocking of the water flow in the Sukhna Choe originating from these hills by …Mapping, monitoring and conservation of Harike wetland ecosystem, Punjab, India, through remote sensing
The Ramsar Convention of IUCN held in 1971 in Iran raised global awareness of the conservation and management of wetlands. Wetlands, the transitional zones that occupy an intermediate position between dryland and open water, regulate the flow of water and nutrients, thereby facilitating optimum functioning of the physical and biological …Arsenic poisoning in the Ganges delta
The natural contamination of drinking water by arsenic needs to be urgently addressed.TANZANIA
Member states of the Mtwara Development CorridorWater balance of Lake Nainital, Kumaun Himalayas
Existence of Lake Nainital has been a matter of debate in the last two decades, because it is the only source of drinking water to Nainital city, a famous tourist resort in northern India. In the tectonically active lake basin, naturally occurring landslides have genered sediments in huge amount. In …Hydrological changes in the Ganges system in Bangladesh in the post- Farakka period
The basin area of the Ganges river in Bangladesh is extremely dependent on a regular water supply from upstream to meet requirements for agriculture, fisheries, navigation, salinity control, domestic and industrial sectors. In 1975 India commissioned a barrage on the Ganga river at Farakka to divert significant portion of the …Paints that prey
during the last 10 years, largescale mortalities of bottlenose dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus ) have been reported along the Atlantic coast of the us . For the first time, large amounts of tributyltin ( tbt ) - organotin compounds used as an anti-fouling agent in paints (for painting ships and …Distribution of carbonate in surface sediments of the Pacific Ocean (Sea floor map, 1976)
The distribution of carbonate on the floor of the Pacific has been remapped on the basis of 1313 points from 80 references stored in the World Ocean Sediment Data Bank of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Percent distribution maps and carbonate versus depth diagrams generally agree with previously published information and …Ghandi's ghost saves the Himalayan trees
From Kashmir to Burma, where tigers once lived amid lush forests, a vast tract of land has been laid bare by the timber industry. In its wake have come landslides, drought and yet further poverty. The only hope for the hill people is a Ghandian like movement which villagers have …