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 partially sunk dry dock could lead to a oil spill in Vasco Bay VASCO: The Vasco MLA Carlos Almeida have asked Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) authorities to initiate an action plan to refloat the dry dock of Western India Shipyard Limited which partially sank on Wednesday and to avoid …
MV QING, with 350 tonnes of oil, and the grounding of floating WISL dry dock, increase risk of oil spillage; gross negligence by authorities, claim environmentalists Believe it or not, but not only the Vasco Bay but whole of Goa’s coast is apparently sitting on environmental time bomb with waters …
Environmentalist in letter to MoEF says project will affect corals, fish breeding grounds The proposal to built a ₹3,600 crore Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Memorial in the Arabian Sea is mired in controversy. After a public interest litigation was filed at the Bombay High Court urging the project to be scrapped, …
One of the world’s most remote places, an uninhabited coral atoll, is also one of its most polluted. Henderson Island, a tiny landmass in the eastern South Pacific, has been found by marine scientists to have the highest density of anthropogenic debris recorded anywhere in the world, with 99.8% of …
Research released last month suggested that the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster and oil spill caused $17.2 billion in damages to the Gulf of Mexico’s natural resources — and a slew of other recent studies provide even more detail on just how severe those impacts were for many of the protected …
CHENNAI: In a bizarre move, the ‘polluter’ MT Dawn Kancheepuram on Wednesday claimed that the entire clean-up and restoration work on the Ennore-Chennai coast, which suffered irreparable ecological damage after the oil spill, have been completed. A simple reality check done by Express reveals the work is far from over. …
KENDRAPARA: Emergence of baby Olive Ridley marine turtles along Gahirmatha beach on Odisha's coast has provided relief to conservationists. Nearly two lakh hatchlings have emerged out of pits since past 24 hours, forest officials said on Wednesday. The phenomenon of birth of babies sans mothers marks the culmination of annual …
CHENNAI: The investigation of how much oil was leaked into the sea has been hit even as as efforts are on to transfer the oily water from one of the tanks of MT Dawn Kancheepuram, which collided with Isle of Man flagship BW Maple on January 28, to the outskirts …
Kannur: A detailed study is required to find out the cause of frequent incidents of dead dolphins and whales washing ashore along the Kerala coast, and it should be initiated as a multi-institutional project involving organizations having expertise in their respective field, said a report submitted by Central Pollution Control …
The UN Environment Programme on Thursday launched an unprecedented global campaign to eliminate major sources of marine litter - microplastics in cosmetics and the excessive, wasteful usage of single-use plastic - by 2022. Launched at the Economist World Ocean Summit in this Indonesian island known for coral reefs, the #CleanSeas …
A thorough understanding of movement patterns of a species is critical for designing effective conservation and management initiatives. However, generating such information for large marine vertebrates is challenging, as they typically move over long distances, live in concealing environments, are logistically difficult to capture and, as upper-trophic predators, are naturally …
The bunker oil spilt by Indian flagship vessel M T Dawn Kancheepuram after it collided with the Isle of Man's vessel B W Maple could persist in the environment for months or years if not removed. According to ‘A Review of Problems Faced by Heavy Oil Spills,’ a study done …
Scientists have warned that oxygen content in the world's oceans has decreased by more than two per cent since 1960, putting marine life at high risk of devastating consequences. They said oxygen, which is an essential necessity of life on land and in the ocean, is threatened by global warming. …
The Environment Ministry may issue a show cause notice to the Kamarajar Port (Ennore port) in Chennai for "mishandling" the oil spill following a collision between two ships last month. Ministry sources said that cleaning process is at an "advance" stage and a team of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) …
Despite the rapid increase in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in marine mammal research, knowledge of the effects of UAVs on study animals is very limited. We recorded the in-air and in-water noise from two commonly used multi-rotor UAVs, the SwellPro Splashdrone and the DJI Inspire 1 Pro, …
If countries abide by the Paris Agreement's global warming target of 1.5 degrees Celsius, potential fish catches could increase by six million metric tonnes per year, estimates a new study. The researchers also found that some oceans are more sensitive to changes in temperature and will have substantially larger gains …
At hydrothermal vents in Longqi or ‘Dragon’s Breath’, 1,243 miles southeast of Madagascar, scientists have discovered unique marine life, including six species new to science. Thousands of hydrothermal vents — chimney-like structures spewing hot water clouds of minerals and nutrients — dot the ocean floor, buzzing with marine life of …
A new study has found that higher water temperatures have ravaged the Great Barrier Reef, causing the worst coral bleaching recorded by scientists. In the worst-affected area, 67% of a 700km swath in the north of the reef lost its shallow-water corals over the past eight to nine months, the …
Plastic pollution threatens to wipe 7.4 per cent off the value of Sydney homes in areas where litter is apparent, a new report shows. The report, released by Boomerang Alliance, found that if just 5 per cent of 1.6 million homes in Sydney neighbourhoods are adversely affected by litter, the …
The government is failing to protect the reef from the effects of shipping disasters, according to environmental lawyers, who say inaction to secure remediation funds will become a bigger problem as shipping traffic increases. The issue could cause a problem for Australia when it reports to the Unesco world heritage …
