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 …
lapodia is a small village of some 189 families in the Dudu block of Jaipur district in Rajasthan. Located in a semi-arid area, the residents of Lapodia are primarily agro-pastoralists, and their livestock subsists on the pastures in the neighbouring areas. In the past four-five years, the people of this …
four villages in the Khurda tehsil in Orissa , are facing a severe drinking water crisis. The water, according to reports, contains toxins. The residents of Singpur, Balasing, Balasinghpatna and Pallibalasingh are struggling against the onslaught of a number of diseases but the state government is yet to take corrective …
It is now down to the summit. Marine scientists are planning to build an observatory at the tip of a massive underwater volcano. Recently, scientists from the University of Washington boarded a research vessel bound for the Axial volcano, 400 km off the Oregon coast. Once there, they hope to …
Politicians do more to deplete water than provide people a sustained supply At the recent meeting of the World Water Commission in Stockholm - set up last year with the support of several governments and United Nations' agencies - to develop a vision for water management in the next century, …
in three months, lighting up a cigarette in Spain's domestic flights and inter-city buses will be regarded as a serious offence. The government has announced a decision to ban smoking on all domestic flights and buses, and impose tighter restrictions on trains and ferries. Earlier, smoking was allowed on domestic …
The UK has banned the import and sale of a Chinese herbal medicine after it was linked to kidney failure. Aristolochia, used to treat fluid retention and rheumatic symptoms, was banned until October 27 on the advice of the Independent Committee on Safety of Medicines. The government said Aristolochia had …
much water has flown under the bridge in an attempt to develop a technology that will determine levels of pollution in rivers. Now, a new laser-based technology has been introduced in the uk to perform this task in English rivers and monitor discharges from chemical works and sewage into the …
A three-day review and evaluation meeting of the National Tuberculosis Programme was held in Bhaktapur, Nepal, recently. The review meeting was held in connection with conducting the quarterly review of activities of governmental and non-governmental organisations working in the National Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Programme in all the five developmental …
consignments of mineral water bottled for the Coca-Cola company in Poland were found to contain small amounts of mold. As a precautionary measure, the company is withdrawing the contaminated 0.33 litre Bonqa brand bottles. However, it said that tests showed that there was no threat of food poisoning. Officials from …
"the Marlboro man just fell off his high horse into quicksand and it will be years until the tobacco industry even gets him halfway out,'' said Ahron Leichtman, executive director of Citizens for a Tobacco-Free Society, a non-governmental organisation. He was commenting on a jury decision taken in Florida on …
The Caribbean National Park of Tortuguero is gearing up yet again as the nesting season of the endangered green sea turtles has just kicked off. Already 13 poachers have been detained and more than 600 stolen turtle eggs and five adult carcasses have been confiscated. Tortuguero's 34 km of uninterrupted …
the Orissa government has finally decided that there will be no renewal of leases for prawn fishing in the Chilka lake area. The government has also approved of a comprehensive fishery policy for the lake. Jagannath Patnaik, revenue minister of Orissa has said that a bill giving shape to the …
Two managers of a fats recycling firm have been charged with fraud for Europe's dioxin-in-food scare ( Down To Earth , Vol 8, No 4). "There are two people who have been questioned by the judge, a brother and sister, the two managers of the business. The woman was released, …
iron powder and magnets may come to the rescue of birds caught in oil spills. John Orbell and his colleagues at the Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, said the iron is sprinkled on the affected areas of the birds and combing the feathers with a magnet removes oil …
the top five states in India that have major discharges of untreated domestic wastewater are Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. According to a recent survey by the Union ministry of environment and forests, these five states generated more than 63 per cent of the total wastewater and …
Keen to fight the bad press they're getting in Europe for alleged environmental and labour abuses, Costa Rican banana-growers recently convinced world industry representatives to push the United Nations for a comparative study of plantation conditions in all banana-exporting countries. They're confident that Costa Rica will score high in the …
greenpeace said nato 's (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) bombing of Yugoslavia is not only causing widespread pollution in the Balkans but risking a major nuclear accident. "We are concerned about the missiles that keep striking Bulgaria, with some even reaching Sofia,' Stelios Psomas, director of Greenpeace Greece, said in a …
Officials in Brazil's tourist capital Rio de Janeiro were struggling to stop the latest sewage pipe leak polluting the city's famous beaches. Some four million tourists visit Rio each year, but recently the beaches have worn a deserted look, with the few sunbathers staying clear of the less than sparkling …
international authorities have sent "a clear message' to the illegal driftnet fishing industry by seizing two boats in the north Pacific, said Canadian officials. The two were among four vessels spotted by Canadian patrol aircraft in a joint operation with the us , Russia and China to stop the environmentally-damaging …
work on a new oil terminal on the Black Sea coast has led to renewed concerns over environmental safety in one of Russia's most beautiful regions. At a ceremony at Yuzhnaya Ozereika, near Russia's main Black Sea oil port, Novorossiisk, Russian and Kazakh government officials and shareholders in the Caspian …
