Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
FINDINGS show record levels of dangerous parasites in Sydney's water. And the real culprits are harmless algae, says ferry Ongerth, a consultant in the board dealing with contamination crises. He says the levels of cryptosporidium and giardia found in most recent health department samples are "as high as you would …
THE United Nations (UN) initiative to grant indigenous people the right to self-government has come under severe criticism from the leader of Australia's One Nation Party, Pauline Hanson. Hanson's speech stating that the declaration supporting "self-determination" for indigenous people would destroy Australia's sovereignty has forced the Australian government to review …
TWO young students have developed a computerised glove which can convert the deafmute alphabet into speech and another has invented a blind person's stick which can "hear" obstacles. As part of a special competition held by the Christoffel Mission for the Blind at Bensheim, Germany, young inventors exhibited their gadgets …
Water supplies in a drought-stricken province in central Vietnam are running out fast, triggering growing fears of health hazards. Quang Tri province has already appealed for emergency aid as it struggles with its worst water crisis in more than a century. Tens of thousands of people are at risk from …
The Supreme Court (SC) has once again upheld the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) guidelines in order to protect the coastline of India: this time with respect to the tiny beach of Palolem in the southernmost taluka of Canacona in Goa. The Mumbai high court had ordered the Canacona municipality to …
Teenagers in Brazil gave birth to a staggering 900,000 babies in 1997, thus accounting for 26.5 per cent of all live births in the country. According to the ministry of health, girls between the age of 10 and 14 gave birth to 1,3 per cent of babies, while teenagers aged …
RUSSIA today is sitting on a bomb - thousands of bombs really. The real nightmare is not that it cannot get rid of more than 36,000 metric tonne of chemical weapons, but that it cannot find the thousands of bombs that lie in abandoned and uncharted weapons dumps, according to …
IT is easy to dump waste in deep-ocean trenches - far harder to check that it has not seeped from its containers into the sea. Now, though, colonies of glowing bacteria offer some hope. When they sense pollution in the water around them, they get dimmer. "Our idea is that …
BEES may be busy, but are not always the avid shift workers that scientists have long presumed them to be. American entomologists have found that young honeybees work and rest at completely random times, unlike older, foraging bees, who have a distinct internal rhythm. They even get jet-lag if flown …
THE cases of mv infection in Russian soldiers have quadrupled in the past one year. Half of these soldiers are in Moscow's military district itself, say army officials. They blame the rise of drug abuse among the country's abused and hungry soldiers. Mikhail Kislitsyn, Moscow military district prosecutor, says that …
Hong Kong is preparing to tackle the mosquito menace following a sharp rise in the number of dengue cases. Five cases were notified in 1996 and 10 in 1997, but by the end of July this year, eight had already been identified. In an attempt to prevent the disease from …
ASIATIC lions are found at only one place in the world - the Gir National Park, Gujarat. Now the Union ministry of environment and forests is planning a second home for them at an estimated cost of about Rs 65 crore in Madhya Pradesh. The project will be spread over …
The recontmendations of a high-level committee for containing vehicular pollution in Delhi have been approved by the Supreme Court. The apex court has warned the authorities to strictly adhere to the tune limits set by the panel. The committee, in its action taken report, had said that by April 2001 …
The Pakistani ministry of environment & urban affairs is likely to prepare a roster of experts on persistent organic pollutants {POPs) to keep a watch over their effects on human health. Although the country has put a ban on import of POPs, these pollutants find a way into the agricultural …
WHEN it comes to writing reports, British Telecom's (BT's) research engineers have resorted to using Radar to make sure that their output is up-to-date and contains all references to relevant research. The Radar in question is a clever computer program named after the underdog character in MASH, the television comedy …
"DRINK only the Delhi }al Board water," advise the numerous advertisements brought out by the Delhi government. Not really. Even the treated water coming through supply pipes is contaminated and unfit for drinking, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). An affidavit filed in the Delhi high court has …
TROPICAL forests have been disappearing at alarming rates for the past three decades. Farmers, ranchers and timber industries have denuded millions of acres, and only in the past few years has the resultant damage to the ecosystem has become agonisingly clear. A new study by botanists at the University of …
It is our passage to billions of light-years into space. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey's electronic camera, mounted on a 2.5-metre telescope in New Mexico, USA, captured its first images of stars, galaxies and quasars on the nights of May 9 and 10. Merely one per cent of the data …
HUNDREDS of Australians die every year because they do not take asthma medication as directed, warn respiratory specialists. The National Asthma Campaign (NAC) reports that half of the country's asthmatics are not taking medicines as directed. And one in four asthmatics take their medicine only when they feel "out of …
Increased pollution levels are the reason behind China facing a terrible water shortage. According to a Chinese scientist, if the trend continues, it could become a full blown crisis by mid-21st century. Chen Mengxiong of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said many people believe that water supply in the country …
