The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Addis Ababa — A United Nations mission is due to take place this month to assess the impact of Ethiopia's massive Gilgel Gibe III hydroelectric power project on the Omo River which feeds Lake Turkana, the world's largest desert lake, lying mostly in northwest Kenya with its northern tip extending …
Maputo — Delegations from the Mozambican and Zimbabwean authorities met this week in the central city of Chimoio to discuss the pollution of international rivers caused by illegal artisanal gold mining, according to a report in Thursday's issue of the Maputo daily “Noticias”. The Revue and Pungoe rivers are being …
Nowadays, aquatic organisms are used as bio-indicators to assess ecological water quality in western regions, but have hardly been used in an Iranian context. We, therefore, evaluated the suitability of several indices to assess the water quality for an Iranian case study. Original Source
Oil from an unidentified source leaked into a water channel linking to the Yellow River in Northwest China's Gansu province, authorities said Friday. The environmental protection bureau of Lanzhou city has been cleaning the oil from the water channel, which was previously used to discharge floods from the Yellow River. …
A study carried out by researchers from Mulawarman University in Balikapapan, East Kalimantan, has found unsafe concentrations of heavy metals like lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) in fish caught in the Mahakam River delta. Mulawarman University Community Health School vice dean Blego Sedionoto said lead concentrations …
(Reuters) - China's environment ministry has refused approval for a hydropower dam on an ecologically vulnerable river already damaged by construction, a rare setback for the country's extensive dam-building program. While the 1,000-megawatt Xiaonanhai project appears scrapped, experts said China's overall plan for dams was on course given pressure to …
About 420 gallons of oil spilled into the Mississippi River, forcing authorities to close part of the waterway after a ship collided with vessel offloading crude in southern Louisiana on Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The bulk carrier Privocean broke free from its mooring near Convent at around 4 …
The stretch of the Colorado River that winds through the Grand Canyon tops a new list of the nation’s most endangered rivers, a reflection of controversial plans to reopen a uranium mine in the area and build a tramway that would take visitors to a new restaurant and river walkways …
Despite New Zealand’s global success as the largest dairy products exporter, concerns are becoming loud that many of its serene rivers, including Waitaki River, will be facing the brunt of pollutants being emptied from Mackenzie country's dairying activities in the South Island. According to New Zealand's longest-serving Fish & Game …
Just 17% of England's rivers are judged to be in good health, according to Environment Agency figures. This is down from 29% with a good ecological status in 2014. The analysis is shocking, say environmentalists. Problems are caused by over-abstraction and pollution from farms, run-off from roads and effluent from …
As much as 1,500 gallons of used motor oil leaked from an above-ground storage tank in Washington state into a creek that flows into the Yakima River, vital to the apple-growing state's agricultural hub, officials said on Monday. The cause of the spill on Sunday from the tank at a …
Pollution by plastic debris is an increasing environmental concern in the Laurentian Great Lakes where it affects open-water, shoreline, and benthic environments. Open-water surveys reveal that, in certain areas of the Great Lakes, surface water densities of plastics are as high as those reported for areas of litter accumulation within …
Scottish Water has been fined after it accidentally polluted a river, killing nearly 5,000 fish. The body admitted polluting several kilometres of the River Farg with aluminium sulphate after an employee left a valve open at a water treatment facility in Perthshire. Perth Sheriff Court heard that virtually all the …
Australia will offer technical support and assistance to India’s mammoth undertaking of cleaning up the Ganga, Australian High Commissioner Patrick Suckling says. “We have agreed to work with India. We have spent $350 million to develop river basin modelling technology to save one of our biggest rivers, the Murray-Darling river …
Climate Change 2014: Impacts,Adaptation, and Vulnerability is the second volume of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — Climate Change 2013/2014 — and was prepared by its Working Group II. The volume focuses on why climate change matters and is organized into two …
British Columbia’s C$7.9 billion ($7 billion) Site C hydroelectric dam on the Peace River won environmental approval, paving the way for final decision later this year. The project proposed by provincially owned BC Hydro & Power Authority would involve construction of a power station near Fort St. John and the …
Researchers have determined that rivers can recover from dam removal much faster than experts thought possible, returning long gone ecosystems to how they once were in record time. That's at least according to a new study recently published in the journal PLOS One, that closely followed the removal of two …
DAMAULI , Sept 30: Locals of Srijana Tole of Byas municipality-10, Tanahun have teamed up for the conservation of Madi River and water animals. The local residents put their collective efforts for the conservation of the river and water animals as part of their campaign to make Byas municipality a …
The world populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles fell overall by 52 percent between 1970 and 2010, far faster than previously thought, the World Wildlife Fund said on Tuesday. The conservation group's Living Planet Report, published every two years, said humankind's demands were now 50 percent more than …
Global wildlife populations have declined by more than half in just 40 years according to “Living Planet Report 2014” produced by World Wildlife Federation in collaboration with Zoological Society of London & the Global Footprint Network. The biggest recorded threat to biodiversity globally comes from the combined impacts of habitat …
