Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Natural disasters have left some 147,753 people dead in Bangladesh over the last decade, according to a report published by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society. This figure is five times higher than the previous decade
PRABHANJAN VERMA The film is a critical analysis of the left wing stand in Kerala on the sensitive nuclear arms issue. It portrays the tug-of-war between the official party line that has fallen prey to jingoism and a veteran Marxist who kills his conscience at the behest of his own …
The Delhi high court and the city's lower courts are proving to be the major obstacles in the way of cleaning the Yamuna river, the Union urban development ministry recently stated in a reply to the Supreme Court. The reply was in response to the apex court's direction asking the …
Titanic sank not because it hit the iceberg, the reason for its sinking lies in its inability to take a turn on time'. These words are aptly used by Mahesh Bhat, the noted filmmaker, to describe the apathy of the government through his documentary Bearing the Brunt. The documentary was …
W hales and dolphins of St Lucia island are being killed in large numbers, according to the International Whaling Commission ( iwc ). At least 96 dolphins and 65 whales were killed on the island during 1999. "These numbers amount to one of the largest officially recorded inten-tional mammal kills …
A delegation of New Yorkers headed by George Pataki, the city's governor, recently visited the Puerto Rican island of Vieques to witness the harmful effects of the us navy's combat training programme being conducted on the island. The delegation met local residents and community leaders on Vieques, who are striving …
About 80 tropical cyclones (with wind speeds equal to or greater than 35 knots) form in the world’s waters every year. Of these about 6.5% develop in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. Since the frequency of cyclones in the Bay of Bengal is about 5 to 6 times …
an international team looked at the seasonal growth rings in 28 specimens of 500 centuries old Fitzroya cupressoides , a conifer found in South America to trace a picture of the world's climate 50,000 years ago. The scientists were able to study the trees as a result of two natural …
natural disasters are unpredictable, but the way the situation was managed in the recent Gujarat earthquake, for instance, has unearthed many flaws in the existing disaster management system. Unfinished rescue operations, food and water shortage and insufficient medical aid has shown that the country is not geared up to tackle …
Changes in the climate could cost the world more than US $300 billion annually, predicts a report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The report predicts that by 2050 the losses caused by tropical cyclones, loss of land from sea-level changes, damage to water supplies, agriculture and fishing stocks …
the sturgeon population is fast declining due to poaching, illegal trade, habitat loss, dam constructions, pollution, damaging aquaculture practices, lack of regional cooperation in conservation programmes and poor law enforcement. This was revealed during a recent international meeting of more than 40 experts, including scientists, representatives of government and non-governmental …
latvia has decided to push for a deal on a compensation mechanism in oil pollution cases, said Andris Berzins, the country's prime minister. This decision has been taken in the wake of an oil spill from Lithuanian oil concern Mazeikiu Nafta's terminal into the Baltic Sea on March 7, 2001. …
the Madhya Pradesh government has dissolved the state pollution control board after its chairperson V K Jain was arrested by the Lok Ayukta (la), an autonomous watchdog body. The la says that several documents in its possession reveal that Jain gave no objection certificates to several polluting industries, including distilleries, …
At least 274 people were killed and 2,937 injured when an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale shook El Salvador on February 13, 2001. The epicentre of the earthquake was 20 kilometres from San Salvador, El Salvador's capital city. Salvador's National Emergency Committee reported that the quake triggered 25 …
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Nepal, has launched a 100-year programme for the conservation of the western Terai and Chure hills, one of the best habitats for Royal Bengal tiger, one horned Asiatic rhino and elephant. The WWF has identified 236 out of 800 animal habitats as endangered …
Students of the Pirang Lower Basic School in Gambia have started a campaign to rid their neighbourhood of used batteries. After being taught about the health and environmental hazards posed by these batteries, the children have started collecting them on weekends. Till now, over 20,000 used batteries have been collected …
ramnagar, February 16, 2001. The sleepy headquarters of the Corbett Tiger Reserve (ctr) looks like a war zone. The place is swarming with gun-toting forest guards and top forest officials of Uttaranchal, all in a flurry of activity. The buzzwords are
There cannot be a bigger irony. As the nation was preparing to smugly display its military might and scientific prowess on Republic Day, a mighty earthquake flattened a large part of Gujarat. The quake, however, did not quite shake the ruling elite, who till afternoon participated in the long ceremonial …
