Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item appearing in India.com dated 27.07.2024 titled Saving Kashmir Brown Bears is a Race Against Time Wildlife SOS and J & K Wildlife Protection Dept take challenge dated 22/04/2025. The Member Secretary, J&K PCC submits that now the snow …
Black carbon - a presentation by Anumita Roychowdhury at CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.
Pioneers and trailblazers, whose work has had a significant and positive impact on the environment, are set to receive the UN's highest environmental accolade, the Champions of the Earth award.The prize is awarded annually by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to leaders from government, civil society and the private sector. …
ANDREW JACOBSThree lakh, forty thousand people in India and China die each year from cardiovascular and respiratory dis eases that can be traced to noxious emissionsAnoxious cocktail of soot, smog and toxic chemi cals is blotting out the sun in Beijing, fouling the lungs of millions of people and altering …
The present study deals with the impact of agriculture crop residue burning on aerosol properties during October 206 and 2007 over Punjab state, India using ground based measurements and multi-satellite data.
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) warm the surface and the atmosphere with significant implications for rainfall, retreat of glaciers and sea ice, sea level, among other factors. About 30 years ago, it was recognized that the increase in tropospheric ozone from air pollution (NOx, CO and others) is an important greenhouse forcing …
While the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report on Atmospheric Brown Clouds forming over Northern India has set alarm bells ringing, Delhi has reason to cheer. Air quality data compiled over the last year under a new air monitoring system set up by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) at …
India should not dismiss the UNEP report lightly. A new element has been added to the continuing controversy over global climate change with a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report released last month claiming that an Atmospheric Brown Cloud, for which Asia and South America are mainly responsible, is a …
Around 13 megacities have so far been identified as ABC hotpots. Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Dhaka, Karachi, Kolkata, Lagos, Mumbai, New Delhi, Seoul, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Tehran where soot levels are 10 per cent of the total mass of all human-made particles. ABCs can reduce sunlight hitting the Earth's surface in …
An informative book on climate change. Unfortunately, it has some serious drawbacks. CLIMATE change is the hot topic the world over today. It is threatening the lifestyle the West is used to, the lifestyle much of the Third World yearns for. The prognosis is rather disheartening. The earth is sick. …
The haze, or an atmospheric brown cloud hanging over major Asian cities including Delhi and Mumbai, essentially affects local conditions and can be swept away by a new weather system or winter rains as is often the case in the Capital. A day after the UNEP released a report pointing …
Frenzied constructions ahead of the Commonwealth Games may be responsible for the Capital getting dimmer, smoggier, and unhealthier. A recent study by the Central Pollution Control Board for Delhi reveals that despite the CNG conversion of commercial transport vehicles in the city, Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) and Respirable Suspended Particulate …
One of the most serious problems resulting from the brown haze that envelopes vast areas of Asia, the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, is the retreat of the glaciers in the Himalayas and Hindu Kush and in Tibet, according to lead researcher Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a professor of …
The long-term hazards of the haze, or brown cloud, which forms over north Indian cities in winter are not yet well understood, though its adverse impact on health of the people is clear, a leading Indian expert said.
New York, Asian cities from New Delhi to Beijing are getting darker, glaciers on the mighty Himalayas are melting faster and weather system is getting more extreme, a United Nations study has warned. This alarming phenomenon has also spread its dragnet to other cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangkok, Tehran, Cairo, …
