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. …
Abiotic disturbances, disturbances caused by non living factors, are a natural and integral part of forest ecosystems that have major impacts, positive and negative. They influence forest structure, composition and functioning and can be important for maintaining biological diversity and facilitating regeneration. When disturbances exceed their normal range of variation, …
A volatile volcano in central Indonesia unleashed its most powerful eruption in days Sunday, spewing hot ash and smoke high into the air and sending panicked villagers racing back to crowded government shelters. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Mount Lokon, located on northern Sulawesi island, rumbled back to …
A volatile volcano in central Indonesia unleashed its most powerful eruption yet on Sunday, spewing hot ash and smoke thousands of feet into the air and sending panicked villagers racing back to emergency shelters. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Mount Lokon, located on northern Sulawesi island, has been …
A series of eruptions at an Indonesian volcano threw rocks, lava and ash hundreds of metres into the air and forced thousands of people to flee, officials said yesterday. Mount Lokon on Sulawesi island burst into life late Thursday and continued to spew ash and searing gas into the air …
A vast cloud of ash spewing from a Chilean volcano disrupted air travel on Wednesday across much of South America, as heavy rains around the eruption site prompted fears of mudslides. Air traffic was sharply curtailed on the continent as the ash cloud drifted over Argentina, and into Brazil. Flights …
A volcano dormant for decades erupted in south-central Chile on Saturday, belching an ash cloud more than 6 miles high that blew over the Andes and carpeted a popular ski resort in neighboring Argentina. Fanned by winds, ash darkened the sky in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, a government official …
One of the volcanos in the Caulle Cordon of southern Chile erupted violently Saturday, billowing smoke and ash high into the sky and prompting more than 3,500 people living nearby to evacuate. There were no reports of injuries. Authorities initially said the Puyehue volcano was involved, but later said the …
Airlines canceled about 500 European flights on Tuesday as the ash cloud from the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland drifted into northern Britain and Ireland, but a senior European official predicted that the disruption would not reach the scale of a year ago, when millions of travelers were inconvenienced.
Northern Europe is set to again bear the brunt of air traffic disruption from Icelandic volcanic ash on Wednesday after 500 flights were canceled on Tuesday, but experts said the eruption was rapidly dying down. The ash from the Grimsvotn volcano has caused far fewer problems than ash from an …
An ash cloud from a volcano on Iceland shut down flights in northern Britain and elsewhere in north Europe on Tuesday and was heading to Germany, but officials expected no repeat of last year
Thousands of passengers were forced to abandon plans after ash from an Icelandic volcano caused the cancellation of 500 flights on Tuesday, but officials said Europe's airways would be less disrupted than a year ago. As the eruption of Iceland's most active volcano began to run out of steam, a …
A dense cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano blew toward Scotland on Monday, creating fears among airlines across Europe that the eruption-related travel disruptions of last year would be repeated. British Airways suspended all its flights between London and Scotland for Tuesday morning, and the Dutch carrier KLM canceled …
Airlines began cancelling flights to Britain late on Monday because of an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano reaching its airspace, although experts expected no repeat of travel chaos from an eruption a year ago. Britain's Met Office forecast the plume of ash from the Grimsvotn volcano would cover the …
Reykjavik: Britain said flights could be disrupted from parts of the country on Tuesday by an ash cloud billowing from an Icelandic volcano, but said it did not expect a repeat of last year's travel chaos. Britain's Met Office is predicting the plume of ash from the Grimsvotn volcano would …
The Icelandic met office said the plume of smoke and ash which is billowing out of Grimsvotn, which last exploded in 2004, had fallen to just below 10 km, well below its maximum so far of 25 km. Icelandic met office forecaster Teitur Arason said current wind conditions were spreading …
