Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of The Goa Foundation Vs The Goa State Environment Impact Assessment Authority & Others dated 10/07/2023. The SC, July 10, 2023 gave directions for halting the construction of Tiracol river bridge till further orders. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) in …
Multivariate statistical techniques, such as Cluster Analysis (CA), Discriminant Analysis (DA), and Principal component analysis (PCA) were applied to evaluate the temporal/spatial variations in marine water quality of Mumbai and to identify pollution sources. Hierarchical CA grouped 12 sampling sites into three clusters of similar water quality characteristics. DA gave …
The number of British beaches recommended for bathing has dropped by a record 16.5 percent because of poor weather last year, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said on Friday. In its annual Good Beach Guide, the MCS said 370 beaches out of 777 tested were recommended for their excellent water …
1978: Fomento buys land in Taleigaon village. Requests for adjacent land parcels 1980: State issues notification to acquire land in Taleigaon village and hands over the land including land parcel
Geo-tubes not for the long term ORISSA Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik laid the foundation stone for a 700-m long seawall using geo-tubes in Pentha village in Kendrapara district on January 30. It will cost Rs 15 crore (see
Exposure to natural background radiation is an average 2.4 milliGray per year (milliGray or mGy is the unit for measuring radiation dose received per kg of body mass) and is often greater than exposure to human-caused radiation (0.01 mGy per year from nuclear weapons testing, accidents and operations combined) and …
New evidence says that all radiations do not lead to cancer RADIATION protection standards say that all doses of radiation, big or small, risk human health and lead to cancers. For example, the entire cycle from extraction of nuclear material to waste disposal, exposes workers to ionising radiation that is …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will dig deep into its pockets to ensure clean and pristine beaches in the western suburban regions of the city. It has decided to spend Rs30,500 per day on the clean-up of three major beaches of Versova, Madh-Marve and Gorai-Manori, all of which are inland tourist …
The BMC is pulling out all the stops to ensure that beaches in the city are clean. The civic body will spend a little more than Rs 7 crore over the next five years to spruce up three major beaches
Tamil Nadu to undo plantations to save Olive Ridley turtles THE Tamil Nadu revenue department has sanctioned money to uproot casuarinas planted with World Bank fund along the coast because they were affecting the nesting of the endangered Olive Ridley Turtles. In January, Chennai-based Students
Orissa government looks for ways to stall beach erosion, does not recognize climate change The rising sea level has alarmed the Orissa government. It has decided to combat it with geo-tubes. Orissa
on july 31, an expert committee of the union ministry of environment and forest decided not to recommend the construction of rock structures designed to reclaim Puducherry
Atomic minerals (uraninite, pitchblende, coffinite, columbite-tantalite, zircon, monazite, xenotime, etc.), containing naturally occurring radio-elements of U and Th, and their geochemically coherent elements like Nb
Ionizing radiations are a grave threat around the high background regions of the globe. Selected pockets of Brazil, China and India are reportedly under the grip of high background radiation. Presence of monazite sand along the beaches of these regions, among other factors, has contributed to these dreaded radiations. Recent …
Washington: The world's beaches and shores are anything but pristine. Volunteers scoured 33,000 miles of shoreline worldwide and found 6 million pounds (3m kg) of debris from cigarette butts and food wrappers to abandoned fishing lines and plastic bags that threaten seabirds and marine mammals. A report by the Ocean …
The amount of plastic littering British beaches is at its highest level since records began, according to the Marine Conservation Society. Nearly 4,000 volunteers scoured Britain's beaches as part of the survey (Copyright T Fanshawe) The organisation's Beachwatch 2007 Report shows that plastic litter on beaches has increased by 126% …
If you do like to be beside the seaside, it might be best to avoid beaches near major ports. The mix of sea salt, ship fumes and city smoke leads to a chemical reaction that encourages the formation of ozone smog, adding to the pollution that forms in cities. James …
