Report by Court Commissioner in OA No 481 of 2024 News item titled "Major fire erupts at Delhi's Ghazipur landfill site smoke engulfs region" appearing in the Hindustan Times, April 21, 2024. The report was dated March 29, 2025. The report was in compliance of NGT order, March 7, 2025. …
Costa Rica's Turrialba volcano belched a column of gas and ash up to 3,280 feet (1 km) into the air on Thursday in its most powerful eruption in two decades, and local authorities started to evacuate residents from the surrounding area. Four explosions emanated from the volcano in central Costa …
PUCON, Chile (AP) — One of South America's most active volcanoes erupted early Tuesday in southern Chile, spewing heavy smoke into the air as lava surged down its slopes, prompting authorities to evacuate thousands of people. Authorities worried that mudslides caused by melting snow could endanger nearby communities. The Villarrica …
If you listen to climate change sceptics, Earth's surface hasn't warmed appreciably in the last 15 years, and any "record" set last year is just the result of the planet doing what the planet naturally does. It turns out they're right, but for the wrong reasons, according to a study …
A volcano in the Cape Verde archipelago off the coast of West Africa erupted on Sunday morning, the prime minister said, calling for residents to evacuate. A photograph posted on the local RTC TV station website showed a huge plume of smoke rising into the sky, visible from the capital …
Lava is again flowing out of Mayon, the Philippines’ most active volcano, raising fears an eruption could be imminent, authorities said Sunday. The government has already evacuated around 63,000 people living inside a 6-km danger zone around the volcano, after it began to spew out white smoke and some lava …
A meandering stream of volcanic lava on Hawaii's Big Island has resumed its slow march through forest lands toward residential communities in its path, sending up heavy smoke as it burns trees, officials said on Monday. The lava flow, which first bubbled out of the continuously erupting Kilauea Volcano on …
At least 36 people are feared to have died after a Japanese volcano erupted without warning at the weekend, raining ash and stones on hikers, but the search for victims was abandoned on Monday because of fears of toxic gases. Rescuers at the peak of Mount Ontake, now an eerie …
Thirty-one people were presumed dead on Sunday near the peak of a Japanese volcano that erupted a day earlier, catching hundreds of hikers unawares as it belched out clouds of rock and ash. The deaths on Mount Ontake, 200 km (125 miles) west of Tokyo, were the first from a …
The Philippines has evacuated more than 12,000 people from around the foot of its most active volcano as the crater glows red and authorities warn of a possible eruption. Mount Mayon, known for its near-perfect cone shape in the coconut-growing central Bicol region, has recorded a series of recent quakes …
Iceland's largest volcanic system, which cuts a 190 km long and up to 25 km wide (118 miles by 15.5 miles) swathe across the North Atlantic island, has been hit by thousands of earthquakes over the last two weeks and scientists have been on high alert. In 2010, an ash …
Two earthquakes measuring more than magnitude 5 hit Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano overnight and another quake shook a nearby volcano, with overall seismic activity staying high, the country's Meteorological Office said on Wednesday. The rumblings at Iceland's largest volcano system have raised worries of an eruption that could spell trouble for …
Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano was hit by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake on Tuesday morning, the largest since tremors began in the area last week. The country's Met Office said despite the shock - the fourth magnitude five quake in 48 hours - there is still no sign of a volcanic eruption. …
Iceland is monitoring rumbling at the Bardarbunga volcano for a second week after it yesterday retracted an announcement of an eruption and eased a warning to airlines over a possible ash plume. The national police moved back to an “alert phase” from an “emergency phase” and removed restrictions on aviation, …
Iceland's civil protection agency has decided to evacuate an area north of the country's Bardarbunga volcano, saying it could not rule out an eruption. The move came after authorities on Monday warned airlines about increased seismic activity at Iceland's largest volcanic system. Ash from the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano …
The steam and heat from volcanoes allowed species of plants and animals to survive past ice ages, a study showed Tuesday, offering help for scientists dealing with climate change. An international team of researchers said their analysis helped explain a long-running mystery about how some species thrived in areas covered …
The death toll from an Indonesian volcano that has been rumbling for months rose to 16 today after rescuers found another charred corpse and a critically injured college student died in a hospital, officials said. Mount Sinabung erupted again yesterday just a day after authorities allowed thousands of villagers who …
Indonesia's Mount Sinabung volcano erupted and killed at least 11 people on the western island of Sumatra on Saturday, the first time it is known to have claimed any lives, a senior government official said. The volcano has become increasingly active in recent months, regularly spewing columns of ash several …
Mimicking Cooling Effects Of Volcanic Eruptions Will Lead To Climate Chaos: Study A controversial proposal to cool the planet artificially by injecting tiny reflective particles into the upper atmosphere which block out sunlight would cause droughts and climate chaos in the poorest countries of the world, a study has found. …
A volcano in eastern El Salvador belched more ash and gases on Monday after a big eruption on Sunday that drove more than 1,600 people into emergency shelters. No major injuries or damage were reported. The Chaparrastique volcano, which is about 140 km (87 miles) east of San Salvador, the …
Climate change has not been strongly influenced by variations in heat from the sun, a scientific study has indicated. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh carried out the study using records of past temperatures constructed with data from tree rings and other historical sources. They compared this data record with …
