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 …
Angering environmentalists, the us Defense Department has exempted the Navy from complying with the Marine Mammal Protection Act for the next two years. The Navy contended that it needs the exemption, allowed under the 2004 National Defense Authorization Act, to have enough time to conduct environmental impact statements for sonar …
Australian sea beaches have turned blue with huge armadas of toxic bluebottle jellyfish floating ashore. These tiny invertebrates are, however, posing a sting threat to beachgoers and thereby affecting the country's tourism industry in this peak season. Only in one weekend, more than 1,200 beachgoers have reported jellyfish stings, many …
discovery of a new phylum has revealed that human beings and other vertebrates had a common ancestor that did not have a brain. The genetic analysis of this half-inch long organism called Xenoturbulla, with no gonads, gut or brain, found deep in the North Atlantic, shows that it is a …
The Economic Coordination Committee of the federal cabinet of Pakistan approved the proposal of the Diamond Bar Island City in October 2006. The project, to be built on the 4,856-hectacre (ha) Buddo and Bundal islands located off the southwestern tip of Karachi coast, is facing stiff resistance because it poses …
• Greenpeace's newest ship, Esperanza is out at sea. It will sail from the Azores to Antarctica, informing people on the way about the crisis faced by oceans. The expedition's primary focus is creating a global network of ocean parks, marine reserves. • The US's climate scientists have given An …
Japan has refused to bow to international pressure to stop whaling. They use the meat for reasearch, they say. But whale meat is also a delicacy in traditional Japanese cuisine. The country had accepted the International Whaling Commission's (iwc) 1986 ban on commercial whaling but resumed whaling for "research' in …
• Conservationists have slammed media mogul Disney for its plans to serve shark's fin soup, sea cucumber and abalone in restaurants at its new theme park in Hong Kong in September. "Promoting these marine species is not responsible because they are not sustainably harvested. Disney should promote responsible consumption,' said …
Marine life in the Arabian Sea might be in grave danger. A Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (modis) image, taken by us space agency nasa on February 22, 2005, shows high chlorophyll concentration in the sea (ribbons and swirls of yellow). This denotes high presence of phytoplankton, tiny ocean plants, near …
Some of California's most popular beaches were invaded by hundreds of dead giant squids on January 19-20, 2005. While squid sightings are not uncommon in these areas, such jumbo-sized animals (up to 1.8 metres long, weighing up to 7.7 kilogrammes) coming ashore in such large numbers is rare. "These things …
environmentalists and non-governmental organisations (ngo) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands are up in arms against a move by the Central Agricultural Research Institute (cari), Port Blair, to introduce a molluscicide targeting the African giant snails (Achatina fulica). They fear that since most pesticides are not host specific, the new molluscicide …
The 106-metre long Veronica, one of the world's biggest trawlers with three factories on board, is heading for Australia. However, gauging the popular reaction, not everyone is enthusiastic about the new arrival. The new South Wales and South Australian state governments have already announced a ban preventing its entry. The …
Seahorses will now be protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (cites). They are the first commercially valuable genus to be accorded such a status. Countries must now ensure that commercial trade of seahorses is not detrimental to wild populations. "At least 77 countries are involved in …
Frenetic cries of protest from animal rights advocates went unwarranted, as Canada's biggest seal hunt in 50 years began off the Newfoundland coast. The hunt, a two-day affair, had sealers taking out 140,000 of the marine mammals each day. It is apparently the first chance in the year for many …
The Caspian Sea has been rapidly losing nutrients in the north of Iran due to uncontrolled growth in the number of comb jellyfish. But finally Iran seems to have found an antidote: Beroe ovata
In the 1990 Hollywood film, Arachnophobia, a South American killer spider hitchhikes to the us in a coffin, and then goes on a breeding and killing spree. Fiction has now turned into fact. While a Chinese mitten crab is wreaking havoc on an English river in a similar manner, a …
eating seafood with high levels of mercury can affect the brain development of older children, indicates a study published in the online edition of the journal Nature. The finding intensifies the ongoing debate about the health effects of methylmercury
The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis, Osbeck, 1765) is found in coastal waters throughout the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, but the species has not been studied in detail along the coast of India. Records of stranded specimens, occasional sightings, incidental catches, and museum specimens are reviewed here, and these …
water foul: Marine epidemics spread 100 times faster than terrestrial disease outbreaks, shows an analysis of US-based National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. The reason is the lack of marine barriers that could otherwise prevent the disease pathogens from spreading. nutty discovery: A hoard of nuts buried by a …
marine boom: An unprecedented census of marine life is reporting three new fish species a week on an average. In the first interim report of the census, an international team of scientists predicts that as many as 5,000 unknown fish species may be lurking in the waters. By the time …
