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 …
Aboriginal people have provided for their needs through the ages by hunting and food gathering activities. These are an integral part of aboriginal religious practices. In recent years, they have been using a combination of traditional and contemporary land management techniques to care for the lands, which have been returned …
on march 5, the Environmental Protection Agency ( epa ) of the us announced a plan for regulating large livestock farms just like any other waste producing industry. This would require farmers to obtain permits and have inspections at their farms. The release of manure into rivers and streams will …
researchers have known since the 1960s that nitrogenous fertilisers run-off severely affects lakes and rivers. Recently published studies show a bleaker picture. Polluting waterways of the world and displacing mineral nutrients from forest soils will result in wide-scale destruction of both forest and marine ecosystems. Nitrogenous compounds such as ammonia …
though India has a number of rules and regulations to protect the environment, they have not achieved their purpose. The growth of environmental laws is a reflection of the speed with which environmentalism has established itself as a potent political force. But many of the laws are either trivial or …
baleshwar, 24, will never walk again. While scrapping a ship at one of the 183 shipbreaking yards at Alang in district Bhavnagar, Gujarat, he fell from a height of 10 metres, suffering multiple fractures in his legs. His one-year tenure at the shipbreaking yard has also left Baleshwar with respiratory …
The geography of Alang makes it ideal for shipbreaking. The beach is low and tides are as high as 10 metres. During low tide, the sea recedes by three km. The industry was set up in Alang in 1982, egged by the demand for a safe haven for shipbreaking. By …
The living conditions in labourers' settlements are indeed sub-human, admits a government official, asking not to be named. High pollution levels, lack of clean drinking water and cramped living conditions in Alang have badly affec-ted the health of labourers. There is no provision for potable water. "We have to buy …
migratory birds coming to the Bhatkal Lake area and Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary, are dying due to the growing pollution, scarcity of water in the lakes and inhospitable conditions. Members of the Delhi Wildlife Society (dws) recently found a migratory Bay Owl (Phodilus badius) and two Salty-backed Gull (Larus Schistisagus) dead …
the Universe may have far less matter than previously thought, say astronomers. The findings have been separately confirmed by two groups of researchers at the Supernova Cosmology Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, usa , and Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory, Australia. The discovery would help in finding whether …
in the wake of growing environmental concern, vehicle manufacturers are now designing products that can be dismantled into reusable pieces. Auto-makers have already made efforts to design cars that could be easily stripped down. A joint-venture company of three big auto-makers
after Dolly, the world's first adult cloned mammal, it is the turn of the Indian buffalo. Scientists at the National Diary Research Institute ( ndri ), Karnal have claimed to have developed a procedure for producing several identical buffalo calves from a single embryo. They are in the final stages …
Researchers at the University of Birmingham, uk, have developed a navigation and orientation device, called MoBIC (Mobility of Blind and Elderly People Interacting with Computers). The device would help blind people to increase their independent mobility. The system works in association with satellites. MoBIC changes satellite signals into computer data …
Wastewater pollution from industries could now easily be monitored by using a new BODSEED technology. Researchers at the Centre for Biochemical Technology (CBT), New Delhi, have devised this technique that would replace the conventional method of using sewage as a marker for water pollution. Rita Kumar at the CBT, says …
A project to develop a biosphere management programme for the Gulf of Mannar biosphere reserve has been planned by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (mssrf). Estimated to cost us $6-8 million, the project will be aided by the Global Environment Facility and the United Nations Development Programme. A World …
norwegian environmental engineers say that at least half a million people on the Kola peninsula in northern Russia are drinking water contaminated with raw sewage and heavy metals. They warn that these people may suffer major epidemics of diarrhoea because urine from chicken farms is leaking into the River Kola, …
Bangladesh has launched a survey to find the effects of arsenic pollution in underground water in rural areas. The survey to be conducted in around 200 villages will be funded by the United Nations Development Programme. Called "Emergency Arsenic Mitigation Programme' the survey will cover 22 of the country's 64 …
norweb communications, an international gas and electricity group in the uk , is developing techniques to use electric cables instead of phone lines to transmit data into homes. The method would ensure that data could be transmitted without any problem. The group has developed a method to send Internet data …
Passenger aircraft in the future may fly without wind screens for pilots to peer through. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been experimenting with a wind screen-less cockpit they may find application on the second generation supersonic airliner. The NASA has developed a scale model of a fighter …
