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 …
Customary land rightsPalm oil firm loses to Kayans A native community in Malaysia won a 12-year legal battle against the Sarawak state government and palm oil giant ioi Pelita after the state’s apex court recognized their customary land rights. The court ruled that the government had unconstitutionally granted the native …
Anand McNair | TNN Ahmedabad: Marine conservation initiatives along the India coastline are set to receive a major boost with the induction into the Indian Coast Guard, a pollution control vessel, which is one of its kind in Asia. The 77-metre-long and 4,300 tonne Sagar Prahari, the largest ship in …
Sib Kumar Das BERHAMPUR: Carcasses of Olive Ridley turtles were sighted floating near the Rushikulya rookery on the Orissa coast after an oil spill from a ship near the Gopalpur port. Environmental activists suspect this to be the impact of the spill. Some 25 carcasses were reported to be floating …
The National Institute of Oceanography in a study has concluded that the Chicalim bay that is home to windowpane oysters (scientifically known as placuna placenta and locally known as
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO The Gopalpur Port authorities on Wednes- day engaged 200 local peo- ple to clean the oil-silts from the local beach that was inundated by a thick layer of petroleum fuel leaking out of a cargo ship docked in the port.
Mumbai Seafood in the city could be brought from severely polluted waters and contains several toxic chemicals, a one-year study done by the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals has revealed. The 13-page report called
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO and RASHME SEHGAL A huge thick layer of oil washed up at the mouth of the Rushikulya river on the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday morning, endangering the local marine flora and fauna and particularly Orissa's famed Olive Ridley sea turtles. The sea water turned completely black …
The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) held its 60th session from 22-26 March 2010, in London, UK, and focused on the reduction of greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions from international shipping. The MEPC concluded that more work needs to be done before it completes its consideration …
ERODE: The Perundurai SIPCOT Textile Processors Association has urged the State Government to take immediate steps for the implementation of the marine discharge project, which will enable the textile processors in Kongu region to transport and discharge the treated effluents in the sea safely. The knitwear industry in Tirupur is …
The risk of gastrointestinal illness to swimmers from fresh sewage and non-sewage fecal sources at recreational beaches was predicted using quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA). The QMRA estimated the probability of illness for accidental ingestion of recreational water with a specific concentration of fecal indicator bacteria, here the geometric mean …
Role of marine bacteria viz. Marinococcus albus, Methylobacterium mesophilicum and Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in bioremediation of crude oil contaminated Alang sea coast has been evaluated in the present study. Optimum concentrations of inorganic nutrients N, P & K as urea, super phos and potash fertilizers respectively on growth and degradation has …
Concentration of metals (Mn, Al, Fe, Cr, Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd, Co and Ni) in eight different seagrass species of Andaman Islands were analyzed using Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer. The concentration of Mn was maximum in almost all the seagrasses, whereas Co recorded minimum concentration. The concentration of …
Comparative study of heavy metals in forty species of red seaweed belonging to twenty six genera from three different coastal areas (Buleji, Paradise Point and Nathia Gali) of Karachi, Arabian Sea was carried out over the period of three years. There is high variability in metals concentration with in, seaweed …
Divya Gandhi Bangalore: Plankton prairies, that generate much of the oxygen we breathe, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where currents have deposited the world
In the first week of January, the Maharashtra state pollution control board ordered the shutdown of 27 chemicals factories in Khed taluka of Ratnagiri district. The factories from the Lote-Parshuram industrial area were found emptying untreated effluents into a rivulet that contaminated the reservoir downstream. The Boraj dam reservoir is …
Water masses can become undersaturated with oxygen when natural processes alone or in combination with anthropogenic processes produce enough organic carbon that is aerobically decomposed faster than the rate of oxygen reaeration. The dominant natural processes usually involved are photosynthetic carbon production and microbial respiration. The re-supply rate is indirectly …
Effluent Conveyance System called as Effluent Channel Project (ECP) is provided to carry treated effluent from industries (mostly chemical) located near Vadodara to the Gulf of Cambey, Arabian Sea. The industries along the stretch in the area from Padra Taluka (Vadodara District) and Jambusar Taluka (Bharuch District) also join the …
Hydrocarbon-inducible cytochrome P4501A (CYP1A) expression was measured, as ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) activity, in livers of wintering harlequin ducks (Histrionicus histrionicus) captured in areas of Prince William Sound, Alaska, USA, oiled by the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill and in birds from nearby unoiled areas, during 2005 to 2009 (up to 20 years …
