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 …
the fisheries minister of Kerala, T K Ramakrishnan, has blamed the Union government's deep-sea fishing policy for depletion of marine wealth. He said that the Centre had allowed for deep-sea fishing to foreign vessels on hire, vessels of foreign joint-venture companies and ships indulging in fishing on an experimental basis. …
On why he refused to accept the Pew Foundation fellowship: Although the award is a recognition to our movement, the implications to the money associated with the award are different. The Philadelphia-based Pew Foundation is sponsored by the oil company, Sun, which has over the years contributed to marine pollution. …
• Soyabean production in India can be doubled by the year 2002, according to Gian Singh, director of VMA Oilseeds Research and Development Institute (VORDI). The use of short-duration photo-sensitive varieties and bringing more fallow land under cultivation can help raise the output to 108 million tonnes by the terminal …
the collision of an asteroid with the Earth, responsible for creating a deep-sea crater off the southern coast of Chile, might have thrown life forms towards the South Pole 2.2 million years ago. For long, researchers have been trying to find out how marine life reached the dry valleys of …
The weather is a complex system and a number of factors influence it. Chief among them are the rotation of the planet which helps give direction to the winds. This disturbance in the atmosphere takes the form of a giant heat exchange system with hot air moving from the tropics …
In the 1920s, Sir Gilbert Walker made the seminal connection between barometer readings of air pressure at sea level at stations on the eastern and western sides of the Pacific Ocean (Tahiti and Darwin, Australia). He observed that when pressure rises in the east, it usually falls in the west, …
Southeast Asia seems to have a permanent rendezvous with disasters. First it was the haze in Indonesia and now it is the oil spill in Singapore. About 25,000 tonnes of fuel oil spilled into the Singapore Strait on October 15 when the Cyprus-registered tanker Evoikos collided with the Thai-registered Orapin …
robot fish could soon be searching the ocean floor for hazardous chemicals. Researchers at the University of Central Florida, usa, have developed the Micro Electronic Fish Robot (mefir) that would be used for studying aquatic life. The 0.6 m long robot has been designed to look and move like fish. …
The government will invest us $100 million for the growth and diversification of marine life during the next four years. The decision has come at a time when conservationists had been sounding the alarm about the endangered species. According to them, endangered dolphins were swallowing nearly 300,000 bacteria a day …
international environmental groups and those who defend the right to sustainable use of marine mammals have been debating the issue of banning whale hunting. Those who oppose whale hunting argue that the species is on the verge of extinction. However, for 30 Norwegian families, who are involved in hunting the …
travancore Titanium Products ( ttp ) Ltd, long embroiled in a tussle with the Kerala State Pollution Control Board ( kspcb ), may face closure with the State Water Appellate Authority dismissing two of its appeals. The appeals were submitted by ttf with regard to a case on pollution of …
Rivers and estuaries in the US have been invaded by innumerable exotic marine creatures, including clams and crabs, that threaten native species. The invading species can multiply to the extent of damaging harbours and waterways if there are no natural enemies in the new environment. Trochammina hadai , a single-celled …
