Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
in the worst ever oil spill disaster in Japan, a huge oil tanker ran aground near the port of Yokohama on July 2, creating a 66.5-sq km oil slick in Tokyo Bay. The tanker Diamond Grace was carrying 300,000 kilolitres (kl) of crude oil when it hit a well-marked shoal …
THE effect of dams on surrounding ecosystems could be traced even to the seas which receive the waters of dammed rivers. According to researchers from the University of Hamburg and the Baltic Research Institute in Rostock, both in Germany, the Iron Gates dam on the Danube river has transformed the …
Ultraviolet rays penetrating through the protective ozone layer over Antarctica are damaging the DNA of higher animals. Scientists from the Northeastern University of Texas, US, found extensive DNA lesions in the eggs and larvae of ice fish - an Antarctic fish that lacks hacmoglobin - during the period when the …
under unfavourable - oxygen-deprived - conditions, brine shrimps shut down their energy processes and enter a death-like state; but when favourable conditions are restored, perhaps years later, these animals rise up, hatch and swim away, says James Clegg, a biochemist at the University of California's Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega …
AN OIL slick in the English Channel is threatening marine life along a 225 km stretch of the southeastern coast of England. "This is the first major incident of its kind that we have had since the Torrey Canyon Disaster in 1967," claimed Dennis Fenter, warden of Brent Lodge Bird …
a conservationists versus people tussle has built up in the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. Over the last few years, fisherfolk have persistently staked claim to the resources of the world's second largest marine reserve which houses sea cucumbers, sharks, lobsters, giant tortoises and sea horses, among other species. At the …
The Gulf waters are turning murkier day by day with illegal waste being dumped by ships in sea, mak ing it unfit for marine life. Wastes from large vessels, which sail through the Gulf or anchor there, find their way into the sea in violation of local rules. The sea …
in view of a recent discovery, the models used to estimate earth's response to climate change stand for a rethink. While studying the effect of marine life on global warming, scientists found that the role of oceans in carbon fixation had actually been overestimated. The new findings suggest that half …
it could take something as simple as iron supplements to combat the spectre of global warming. It was John H Martin, an ocean scientist who had first suggested that fertilising the seas with thousands of tonnes of iron compounds could result in the sudden spurt of marine plant organisms called …
an unusual problem is plaguing the Norwegian rivers. Wild salmon returning to native habitats for spawning face an unexpected threat: salmon escapees that are either bred in fish farms or raised in special metal tanks with artificial lighting to speed up reproduction. These escapees are also vaccinated against infections and …
Garbage floating in the oceans could pose a threat to marine life. One such site is a remote group of islands in the Indian ocean, 1,500 km southwest of Jakarta, Indonesia, where the population of green turtles inhabiting the shores is endangered. Thousands of rubber flip-flops are being washed onto …
How do some species of bacteria and a species of algae manage to survive in the inhospitable salty waters of the Dead Sea? Researchers in Israel and USA have got an answer for at least one such bacterium, Haloarcula marismortui . Since a high concentration of salts pull water molecules …
Antarctic krills, small shrimplike creatures, have adopted special mechanisms to avoid turbulence. According to Konard Welse, a zoologist at the University of Hamburg, Germany, their antennae pick up pressure waves from their neighbours for maintaining contact among themselves. After placing a small pressure sensor near the swimmerets of a krill, …
IN-A bid to crack the elusive ways of the giant squid, the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) under the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, us, is mounting a giant expedition in the south Pacific near New Zealand, to study the creature in its natural habitat. Marine biologists from New Zealand …
A THREE-YEAR study conducted by the World Wide Fund for Nature-International for the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) reveals that sea birds inhabiting the Midway Islands in the,north Pacific have concentrations of persistant organic pollutants ajhigh as those in the birds found around the shores of the Great Lakes, North America …
Keeping the sharks off the swimmers along the Natal Coast in South Africa is the business of the Natal Shark Board (NSB). A combination of a museum and a research lab- oratory, the NSB, situated on the cliffs above the Umhlanga Rocks lighthouse on Indian Ocean just north of Durban, …
Filipinos in the island of Palawan are fighting to prevent an environmental catastrophe in their seas caused by cyanide fishing - a technique where cyanide is squirted on fish to stun and bag them. Since the dead ones are left to rot the corals gets irreversibly damaged. Now, Philippines' International …
RIVER dolphins - often the targets of attack from fishermen who kill them for the oil in their fat - have finally come in for attention from the Asian River Dolphin Committee, the international working group on the docile creature. The Committee has recommended that appropriate changes be made in …
Ancient plants may have been responsible for the disappearance of a number of sea animals which became extinct more than 360 million years ago, say University of Cincinnati (US) researchers Thomas Algeo and his colleagues. The chain of reasoning goes like this::t that point of time, land plants were perfecting …
