Short affidavit on behalf of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) in terms of the National Green Tribunal order dated January 22, 2025. The application was registered suo motu by the NGT on the basis of a news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing …
It is a hard blow that will not land softly. As the Manmohan Singh government braces for the June 5 fuel shock to reflect more fully in this Friday's inflation figures, even a good monsoon may not quite rescue it from the political quagmire of high food prices and rising …
For the first time in 108 years, monsoon has hit the Capital this early. But though its onset has been premature, the rainfall has been very good this year and well distributed. Between June 1 and June 15, the overall rainfall across India has been 44% above normal. And in …
As torrential rains lashed the city throughout day on Sunday, several disasters, including uprooting of trees, fires, accidents, house collapse were witnessed. The control rooms of the fire brigade and the BMC were inundated with calls reporting catastrophes yesterday. The Mumbai Fire Brigade reported 14 cases of tree felling and …
The south-west monsoon is likely to hit Madhya Pradesh on time around June 13. Conditions are highly favourable for the monsoon to arrive in Madhya Pradesh this week with an upper air cycer built above Orrisa and Andhra Pradesh over the Bay Of Bengal and monsoon advancing further. An upper …
At least 18 people have been killed in different parts of Maharashtra in rain-related incidents as heavy rains lashed the state on Thursday, police said. Four people were struck by lightning in Kolara and Bhorsabhorsi villages in Buldana district of eastern Maharashtra. In Aurangabad, three people were crushed to death …
Is Cherrapunji, Meghalaya's most attractive tourist destination, losing its status as the wettest place on Earth? For over a century, Sohra, the local name for Cherrapunji, has been described in the geography textbooks as a place that receives the highest annual rainfall in the globe. However, in recent times, the …
Mild rains in some part of the capital led to blackouts in various parts of East and South Delhi on Wednesday. The areas badly affected included South Delhi and East Delhi like Panchsheel Park, R K Puram, Safdarjung, Preet Vihar, Mehrauli, Lakshmi Nagar, Kalyan Puri, Vikas Marg, Patparganj, South Extension. …
Despite the PM's backing, no one is willing to give the National Rainfed Area Authority the time of day. The National Rainfed Area Authority (NRAA), a well-conceived initiative of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to rev up agriculture in the country's 60 per cent rain-dependent farm land where poverty abounds, seems …
WHILE the THANE municipal corporation is yet to complete the pre-monsoon repair and cleaning work, the news from an agricultural college that Thane may get over 100 per cent rainfall this year, would increase the woes of Thanekars. According to sources, a Pune-based agricultural college has carried out a study …
Rare Interaction Among 3 Weather Systems Generated Bounty: Experts Most Delhiites couldn't stop shaking their heads in disbelief as they beheld cloudy skies yet again on Saturday evening. Just where is all the rain coming from has been the most asked question this May with repeated thunderstorms creating Shimla-like conditions …
Clouds contribute significantly to the formation of many of the natural hazards. Hence cloud mapping and its classification becomes a major component of the various physical models which are used for forecasting natural hazards. The problem of cloud data classification form NOAA AVHRR (advance very high resolution radiometer) satellite imagery …
While occurrences of water bodies (rivers and canals;reservoirs, tanks and ponds; beels, oxbow lakes and derelict water; and brackish water) across the country depend upon physiographic settings and rainfall conditions, the recharging of the water bodies depends mostly on rainfall which is a highly variable parameter. In this study fluctuation …
Though officially the onset of monsoon in the country is yet to be declared, the northern limit of monsoon has touched the extreme south/ southeast part of Bangladesh close to Mizoram. The normal date of onset of monsoon over Kerala Coast is June 1, while over the city of Guwahati, …
Protected area systems and conservation corridors can help mitigate the impacts of climate change on Amazonian biodiversity. We propose conservation design criteria that will help species survive in situ or adjust range distributions in response to increased drought. The first priority is to protect the western Amazon, identified as the
To demonstrate the relationship between Amazonian vegetation and surface water dynamics, specifically, the recycling of water via evapotranspiration (ET), we compare two general circulation model experiments; one that couples the IS92a scenario of future CO2 emissions to a land-surface scheme with dynamic vegetation (coupled) and the other to fixed vegetation …
Interannual variations in CO2 exchange across Amazonia, as deduced from atmospheric inversions, correlate with El Nino occurrence. They are thought to result from changes in net ecosystemexchange and fire incidence that are both related to drought intensity. Alterations to net ecosystemproduction (NEP) are caused by changes in gross primary production …
The Amazon Basin experiences severe droughts that may become more common in the future. Little is known of the effects of such droughts on Amazon forest productivity and carbon allocation. We tested the prediction that severe drought decreases litterfall and wood production but potentially has multiple cancelling effects on belowground …
