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 …
A radioactive plume of water in the Pacific Ocean from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, which was crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, will likely reach U.S. coastal waters starting in 2014, according to a new study. The long journey of the radioactive particles could help researchers better understand how …
In the wake of the newest pollution map of the Indian Ocean, showing an ugly halo of pollution around Sri Lanka, the Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) yesterday stressed that it had not as yet conducted proper studies to assess the marine pollution situation here. EPA’s Manager of Operations Jagath …
While the recent torrential monsoon rains led to the death of about 50 people in different incidents of electrocution and drowning in the city, it has also brought disaster for the marine life along Karachi coast. The local fishermen and citizens found thousands of dead fish of different sizes floating …
A federal judge denied an attempt by BP Plc to suspend payments to people and businesses claiming damages related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, while an investigator looks into possible misconduct in the payout process. The payments are being made under a program set up under a …
It is widely documented that marine debris is detrimental to the marine ecological environment. While there are various sources of marine debris, that generated by ships constitutes a significant proportion. Annex V of MARPOL 73/78 is to regulate the discharge of garbage from ships; in particular, it prohibits all kinds …
Environment minister says Scotland uses more carrier bags per head than any other part of the UK Scotland has revealed plans to charge consumers for single use carriers bags in a bid to curb plastic waste, leaving England as the only UK nation without plans to impose a levy on …
Union environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Thursday called for setting up a corpus fund to help quick response to oil spills in the sea and protecting India's fragile coastal eco-system. In the recent past, there have been frequent incidents of leakages of crude from broken ships or from …
The RSPB says the number of birds affected by the spill has now reached 4,000 Wildlife charities are calling for tighter regulations to protect seabirds from a group of chemicals that caused hundreds of seabirds to be washed up off the south coast of England. The number of seabirds affected …
Complaints of many resorts in Maldives dumping majority of its waste into the sea are mounting, Environment Ministry said Thursday. Minister Mariyam Shakeela revealed that the waste of resorts amount to 7.5kg per head, while it has been confirmed that the majority of the waste do not reach the dump …
Some radioactive water may have leaked into the ground from a storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operator said on Sunday, the latest in a series of troubles at the facility. The fresh leak comes a day after Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said up …
A second underground storage pool is leaking radioactive water at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 power plant, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday. The first pool, No. 2, was found to have leaked 120 tons of highly radioactive water on Friday. The size of the leak at the second …
Radioactive water has apparently leaked from another underground storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Sunday. The utility, known as Tepco, said the volume of the latest leakage is believed to be small. On Saturday, it said as much as 120 tons …
The chief executive of the company that owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig acknowledged in court on Tuesday that his crew should have done more to avert the 2010 oil well blowout that left 11 dead and soiled hundreds of miles of beaches along the Gulf of Mexico. “Do I …
China's nearshore seawater pollution is still severe and its seawater quality degraded in 2012, according to data revealed on Wednesday by the country's State Oceanic Administration (SOA). Last year saw around 68,000 square km of nearshore waters graded as the worst level of seawater quality, which is only suitable for …
A crucial report on the import of sea food, especially from Japan and Thailand, would be further delayed as a study to verify whether Sri Lanka is really prone to radiation leaks, from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, has been put on hold. The expert committee’s scientific report, on the baseline …
The giant Pacific leatherback turtle, known for its arduous 6,000-mile ocean trek from the U.S. West Coast to breeding grounds in Indonesia, could go extinct within 20 years as its population continues to plummet, scientists say. "Sea turtles have been around about 100 million years and survived the extinction of …
Charity says birdwatchers on Chesil beach in Dorset spotted what they believed were many seabirds covered in pollutant The RSPCA is continuing to care for 237 seabirds washed ashore following last week's mystery oil spill in the Channel. Thirty-one birds have had to be put down and another eight have …
A draft document by the Arctic Council fails to define liability for accidents in an icy region opening up due to global warming Arctic nations' plans to start co-operating over oil spills are vague and fail to define companies' liability for any accidents in an icy region opening up due …
Increasing marine pollution, residents’ inaccessibility to potable water and the poverty have made the people of coastal areas vulnerable to face diseases, especially measles. In a recent research by the activists of Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) in Ibrahim Hydri, the largest fishermen locality, it was learned that a large number …
As conservationists clean up hundreds of birds coated in refined mineral oil, experts fear many more may be suffering at sea Thousands of seabirds may have been harmed by a pollutant in the waters off the south coast of the UK, conservationists warned on Friday. Tests by the Environment Agency …
