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 …
The Delhi High Court has said that it will pass orders to shut down the Indraprastha Thermal Power plant in Delhi if immediate steps are not taken for treating effluents being discharged into the Yamuna river. Chief metropolitan magistrate R K Gauba issued the warning while hearing a 11-year-old petition …
The story so far... nafisa is always ill. The nine-year-old girl was seven when her parents left their home in Khulna, a district in Bangladesh, and moved to India seeking better prospects. Now Nafisa stays in her makeshift home in a dingy, slum area of Noida, a sprawling industrial satellite …
The buck never stops "We have not failed,' says S R Hashim, member secretary, Planning Commission, commenting on the country's water woes. "Problems are acute only in a few areas. We are chasing the problem, but it remains ahead of us,' he defends. However, he agrees that most political decisions …
FOR THE PEOPLE , BY THE PEOPLE So far, the planners have done their best to leave communities out while conceiving projects. It has not worked, India needs to give water back to its people, the planners need to involve the masses. Almost all the countries that face a water …
Empty wells and year-long thirst a tropical country, India has labyrinthine river networks and numerous water sources fed by the yearly rains. The country receives 400 mham of rain and snowfall. Another 20 mham flow in as surface water from neighbouring countries. These 420 mham provide India with river flows …
The remains of the once powerful Soviet nuclear submarine fleet are lying in crumbling shipyards. Many of these are in the northern Kola Peninsula. With Russia lacking the money to dispose of the nuclear waste safely, the radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel pose a tremendous environmental hazard. At least …
in an attempt to stop operation of hazardous waste plant in Izmit, Turkey, Greenpeace activists blocked the entrance of the plant recently. The incinerator had been operating despite a closure order from the nation's ministry of environment. Kocaeli Environmental Protection Association ( kepa ), a local environmental group, also took …
sight-seeing boats are threatening the coastal mangrove trees on Iriomotejima island in Japan. Large waves from high-speed boats are washing away the mud around their roots. With ecotourism booming in Japan, a growing numbers of people are making trips to visit the ancient forests in Iriomotejima, about 440 km southwest …
T he best things in life don't come free. Today clean air and clean drinking water all come at a price. For a person living in a Delhi slum 30 litres of water a day is all one can expect. The sole source of water is either a municipal tanker …
If a country is using 20-40 per cent of available freshwater, it is said to be suffering from 'water stress" according to the estimates of the United Nations Environment Programme. About one-third of the population of the world is living in countries that are experiencing moderate to high water stress. …
LOCAL environmental groups in South Korea have strongly demanded an end to a large-scale reclamation project now underway on the nation's south western coast. "The project should be scrapped immediately since it will have a serious impact on the environment urged," a spokesperson of environmental group Green Korea United. The …
CLIMATOLOGISTs believe that 1999 will not be quite as warm as 1998. Figures released by the Australia's Bureau of Meteorology reveal that the average temperature last year was 22.54oC. It was 0.73oC higher than the average between 1961 and 1990. In fact, each year of this decade has been hotter …
the us Supreme Court did not change the ruling that said that the federal government may be sued for damages resulting from a failure to collect nuclear waste from disposal sites. The judges rejected lower court ruling that the government could not be required to dispose of wastes but could …
nine out of 10 Japanese waterways are contaminated with hormone-disrupting chemicals, according to the country's Environment Agency. A survey conducted by the agency found that 11 such chemicals are polluting 93 per cent of the 130 rivers, lakes, marshes, groundwater and marine sites sampled. Nonyl phenol, used in the manufacture …
Vietnamese farmers are going through a bad time due to persistent drizzle that has affected supply of coffee in the province of Dalak. "The weather is now dangerous for the coffee business,' said a trader. He said the drizzle in Dalak had disrupted the drying process. Dalak accounts for 60 …
IN A major discovery, paleontologists have found a vast dinosaur nesting site in Argentina. Thousands of fossil eggs were found at the site. Inside the egg fragments, the scientists found the first embryo remains from a major class of large dinosaurs, and first definite fossils of embryo skin from any …
LEADING Islamic scholars have ruled that Muslims should be allowed to take advantage of the medical benefits of genetic engineering. But they urged companies to take steps to ensure the technology does not become dangerous or violate Islamic laws. According to the Saudi newspaper Arab News, scholars from the Islamic …
THE Worldwatch Institute of Washington, DC,has come out with some findings on the spread of exotic species from one place to another. Calling it "bioinvasion", the institute says this spread threatens biological diversity and has the potential for global disaster. The environmental watchdog group says that the increasingly global economy …
