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 …
To curb growing air, sound and water pollution, the Supreme Court of Nepal has ordered the Ministry of Population and Environment (MOPE), to set new pollution standards within the next six months. The new standards will be more stringent than the Nepal Emission Standard 1999 and the Nepalese version of …
During the discussion on the AQI, it became clear that the index can capture only the short-term health effects of a few pollutants. But that leaves out the long-term health risk assessment of these pollutants and a host of other toxic pollutants like benzene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) whose …
The future adequacy of freshwater resources is difficult to assess, owing to a complex and rapidly changing geography of water supply and use. Numerical experiments combining climate model outputs, water budgets, and socioeconomic information along digitized river networks demonstrate that (i) a large proportion of the world's population is currently …
the days when companies belonging to major industrial houses could pollute with impunity and get away scot-free are over. Social activism in India has taken giants steps to forever destroy the immunity money and power granted despicable owners of such companies. Production processes used to be unsustainable and by-products contaminated …
Industrial survey statistics tell you that more than one-third - 36.3 per cent - of the total value added by to the raw materials through manufacture in the factory sector of the country comes from Maharashtra (23.66 per cent) and Gujarat (12.64 per cent). Easily, the two most industrialised states …
Wildlife authorities in Assam are set to conduct a week-long census at all wildlife habitats in the state to estimate the tiger population. This is part of a countrywide tiger census to be taken up in the current year. Monkeys have become an endangered species in the Northeast due to …
THE world's earliest civilisations began on the banks of rivers. With time, this became an accepted phenomenon as water was essential to sustain human habitat. Unfortunately, water has been overused and abused across the world irrespective of the economic status of the region. Take, for instance, Europe. Around 60 per …
The city of London now heads the list of the world's cleanest big cities, according to a British government report. The city has moved ahead of Tokyo, New York and Los Angeles on the list. The study, conducted by researchers at the Imperial College, London, states that the risks from …
In an unusual incident, a hotel manager in Puri, Orissa, was sentenced to five years of simple imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000 by a Bhubaneswar environment court. The court said that the hotel and its manager were guilty of not complying with norms set under the Water (prevention …
using a technique called embryo-splitting, researchers hope to grow genetically-identical rhesus monkeys in the laboratory. The technique has, so far, produced one living rhesus monkey, a female named Tetra, but Gerald Schatten of the Oregon Health Science University in Portland, usa , said that four more are on the way. …
Hydrogen is considered by many as the fuel for the future. It is clean, inexpensive and plentiful. However, it is very dangerous to store. Now, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have
Using a naturally-occurring iron-nickel alloy, some US researchers have developed a new method to produce methane. The scientists point out that if the process occurs within the Earth's crust, it would mean a source of methane other than the digestion or decomposting of dead organic matter. They say the process …
Mina Bissell of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, USA, has long pointed out that micro-environment plays an important role in the development of cancer. Cancer cells, just like any other cells in the body, exist in their own
To mitigate the damage caused by frequent cyclones, six Asian countries, including India, will undertake an effective storm warning project. The five-year project is worth $45 million, and will be coordinated by India. B N Krishnamurthy of the department of ocean development has been nominated as the pre-plan manager to …
Five high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of mango have been developed by the Horticulture Centre under the Agriculture Extension Directorate at Kewatkhali in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. The varieties are Amropali, Ratna, Sindhu, Mishra Special and Hybrid-10. The five new varieties of mango were developed by cultivating the fruit on an experimental basis. Officials …
how does sunlight falling on one leaf of a plant influence the flowering of a distant bud? Scientists have long believed that it is due to the movement of small hormone molecules. Research on the pumpkin has now revealed that plants could be coordinating their growth and responses to the …
it is a fight for survival for Southeast Asia's coral fish like groupers and wrasses. With plenty of people more than willing to pay a handsome price for these fish, Chinese restaurants are encouraging fishing to the point of endangering marine life. The World Wide Fund for Nature (wwf) in …
The evolution of groundwater quality at a wet zone in Sri Lanka was made clear using field investigation, chemical and isotopic analyses methods. In the wet zone, the concentrations of major ions and electrical conductivity (EC) in the groundwater are low with small seasonal change. Except for sodium, silica and …
