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 …
not since 1942 has Orissa witnessed a cyclone of this magnitude. On October 18, a devastating cyclone ripped through one of the state's largest cities, Berhampur in Ganjam district, and adjoining districts leaving a trail of destruction. At the last count around 100 people, including many children, had died and …
The Union government has increased the price of diesel. In Delhi the prices have been hiked by Rs 3.56 per litre, and by Rs 4.31, Rs 3.68 and Rs 3.97 in Mumbai, Calcutta and Chennai respectively. The increase was imminent as the international price of diesel had gone up by …
Biotechnology giant Monsanto has said that it would not commercialise the so-called "terminator' gene technology. The technology prevents plants from producing fertile seeds, forcing farmers to buy more seed rather than using seed from the previous year's crop. In a letter to Gordon Conway, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, the …
hurricane Floyd, which struck eastern North Carolina on September 17, has so far claimed more than 31 lives and rendered thousands homeless. Almost two-thirds of the state has been virtually paralysed and many towns have been completely submerged. A state of emergency has been declared in 28 counties. According to …
A devastating earthquake struck Taiwan on September 21, killing more than 1,700 people. Most of the casualties were in the central counties of Taichung and Nantou, said an official with the interior ministry. The earthquake measured 7.3 on the Richter scale, according to Taiwanese officials. However, the French National Earthquake …
imprints of a bygone era left on rocks indicate that life on Earth was disturbed five times. They also suggest that all was well and then, suddenly, half or more of the species that were around simply vanished. However, after a million years or two, new creatures evolved to fill …
the iceberg that took down the Titanic in 1912 looks like a mere ice cube compared to the one that has drifted into the Drake Passage between Antarctica and South America. In 1992, a giant iceberg that broke off from Antarctica floated free and split into two. The larger chunk …
for the residents of Izmit, Turkey, the nightmare began in the wee hours of August 17. As the entire nation was violently jolted awake by the century's most powerful earthquake, the town's oil refinery near Golcuk went up in flames
The hazards posed by the blazing oil refinery caused by Tuesday morning's earthquake in Izmit, Turkey, though reported to be under control, may have far-reaching and serious consequences. Six of the 30 storage tanks containing 700,000 tonnes of crude oil went up in a blaze. Some 12 hours later, the …
australian researchers claim to have discovered evidence that pushes back the date for the first life form on Earth comprehensively. Their findings have shown that life existed on Earth 2.7 billion years ago, 500 million to 1 billion years earlier than previously thought. A recent issue of the journal Science …
on january 12, farmers gathered in large numbers in Multai in Betul district, Madhya Pradesh, demanding compensation for crops damaged by severe rain and hailstorms. Unable to disperse the crowd, the police opened fire without warning, killing 19 and injuring around 500 people. Described as "more gruesome than Jallianwala', the …
if the latest findings by scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research are found to hold water, the various views on the desertification of the Sahara may soon be turned upside down. In a research paper, published in the July 15 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, they concluded …
in one of the worst instances of racism in recent times, a hospital in uk, accepted a kidney from a donor who put a condition that it would not be transplanted on a "coloured' person. The incident occurred at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, where the donor died earlier …
according to the environmental group, Friends of Earth ( f o e ) an ici factory in Middlesborough is the uk 's largest polluter of a group of chemicals, alkylphenols, that has been shown to change the sex of fish. Basing its polluters' list on Environment Agency figures, f o …
chinese scientists have achieved a major breakthrough by cloning the endangered giant panda by growing an embryo that contains genes from a dead panda. The proposal to clone pandas reflects the frustrations of zoologists who, after decades of research, remain puzzled by many aspects of panda reproductive physiology. According to …
tsunamis, giant waves caused by submarine earthquakes, landslips or volcanic activity, are known to wreck havoc in Japan. Now, the country's civil defence officials should be able to predict tsunamis through a new altering system that uses Global Positioning System ( gps) navigation satellites to monitor the vertical motion of …
the history of Australia is closely linked to the fires that have engulfed the continent for centuries. Captain James Cook who reached the Australian shores in 1770 described it as a "continent of smoke'. Some describe it as a land shaped by smoke ( New Scientist , Vol 162, No …
scientists will soon have a new tool to search for the "fossil record' of the Big Bang and uncover clues about the evolution of the Universe. Scheduled to be launched on June 23, National Aeronautic and Space Administration's ( nasa ) Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer ( fuse ) will observe …
the damage was staggering and the destruction, complete. One of worst cyclones in Pakistan’s history left a trail of death and devastation in the districts of Thatta and Badin in the southern province of Sindh on May 20, 1999. Tidal waves as high as six metres hit many villages in …
