Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
A new study by researchers at the University of Bristol and Plymouth Marine Laboratory has shed light on how different species of marine organisms are reacting to ocean acidification. Since the Industrial Revolution, nearly 30 per cent of all the carbon dioxide produced by manmade emissions has been absorbed by …
White sharks are highly migratory and segregate by sex, age and size. Unlike marine mammals, they neither surface to breathe nor frequent haul-out sites, hindering generation of abundance data required to estimate population size. A recent tag-recapture study used photographic identifications of white sharks at two aggregation sites to estimate …
BANGALORE: Scientists in Goa have found that pollution of sea waters brings about changes in the DNA of snails. They have discovered that the changes in the DNA is more along the Goan coast as the level of pollution is higher there. These changes can be used as a marker …
The next time you want to dig into a spiced, crunchy fried mussel or fancy some coconut-laced clam gravy while lounging in a Goa beach shack, you might have to look harder for it. An alarmed Goa forest and environment ministry last week ordered a probe into the death of …
The International Union for Conservation of Nature announced Thursday that it put the Japanese eel on its list of species at risk of extinction. The Switzerland-based IUCN placed the Japanese eel in the second of its three risk categories, meaning the animal faces “a very high risk of extinction in …
Clearance Awaited From Centre For Pipeline To Be Laid By GAIL In Rs 7.6k Cr Project There is good news for Bengal on the eve of World Environment Day . The state's need for green fuel is likely to be met in the next couple of years, with environmental clearance …
Environment Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday announced its decision to protect all types of rays in the ocean, starting from Thursday. At a press conference held to give information regarding the events planned to mark World Environment Day, EPA's Director General Ibrhahim Naim said that the agency was finalising the …
KARACHI: Environmentalists, wildlife experts and other stakeholders at a public hearing of a coal power project to be built at Port Qasim declared its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report ‘highly flawed’ stating that it seemed to have been prepared in haste. The public hearing was organised by the Sindh Environment …
BP Plc (BP.L) on Wednesday asked Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to allow the company to avoid making payments to businesses demanding compensation for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill while litigation continues. The company acted after the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction …
The ever-growing fleet of ships carrying people and goods from one port to another is the primary pollutant of sea water and disrupter of fragile marine life. While fuel emissions by ships contribute to global warming, anti-fouling paints, applied on the hulls of ships to fend off growth of organisms, …
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will sponsor studies on turtles by Wildlife Institute of India (WII) to track the movement, migration and habitat of this marine species in the ocean. For the first time 10 turtles would be tracked through satellite telemetry. The Olive Ridley sea turtles have skipped …
Assessment of sea turtles mortality in fishing operations, awareness raising exercises and enhancing the use of turtle excluder device (TED) in fishing nets are some of the activities planned under a project launched to protect turtles along the coast of Sindh and Balochistan, it emerged on Tuesday. Titled ‘Saving the …
Committee has approved a Rs 30-lakh proposal of Wildlife Institute of India to track turtles by attaching a Platform Terminal Transmitter. Where do marine turtle hatchlings spend the rest of their lives on leaving the Ratnagiri beaches? The mystery of the little-known life cycle of these marine Cetaceans will soon …
BP Plc (BP/) faces billions of dollars in additional payments after failing again to convince an appeals court that the company is being forced to pay claims that aren’t directly related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The decision leaves BP with two options -- pay claims the …
Beachcombers and beach cleaning equipment reduce shell numbers and endanger some organisms You might think twice next time you snag a seashell from the beach and drop it into your pocket: you might be altering the seaside environment. In a study more than 30 years in the making, researchers have …
High hopes for fishing hitting sustainable levels as rise in aquaculture decreases over-exploitation of wild stocks Humans have never eaten so much fish and other seafood, but nearly half of it is no longer caught wild but is grown in farms, says the United Nations. New figures from the Rome-based …
U.S. environmental regulators set standards on Monday for large power plants and factories to modify their cooling water systems to reduce the harmful impact on marine and river life. The Environmental Protection Agency said it has initiated a process under the Clean Water Act, which will be implemented through National …
Scientists in Italy say they have discovered a new species of jellyfish in the Gulf of Venice. Sightings of yellow jellyfish in the North Adriatic Sea were reported to a citizen science project last year, said Ferdinando Boero, a zoologist. "People were saying, this jellyfish is not in your poster …
Dry ice used by mechanized boats to preserve fish and dumped in the river over a long period of time can harm more marine life than the little it seeks to preserve on the shelf. The preservative may help the sea food reach the dining table in a fresher condition …
Monitoring and reducing man-made pollution by improving sanitation infrastructure for the fisheries sector in River Sal is necessary to ensure sustainable development of both marine bio-diversity and human economic development, a three-member technical team has suggested. The team which studied the mass mortality of 'tisreo' (clams) in Sal recently has …
