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 …
More than half of the total African penguin population, which was on the verge of dying, were saved due to the efforts of thousands of people. The penguins of the Dassen Island and the Robben Island, had faced a threat of extinction when oil from a sunken ship had leaked …
the Russian government has decided to recover the sunk Kursk submarine. The decision has ben taken due to the possibility of a nuclear leak from the wreck's reactor. The Kursk, an attack submarine was shattered by an explosion while taking part in naval exercises in the Barrents Sea off Russia's …
the us department of justice has ordered a shipping company to pay compen-sation for an oil spill, which killed millions of lobsters and other wildlife of the Block Island Sound, near Rhode Island, usa . The department has directed Eklof Marine Corporation ( emc ) to pay us $16 million, …
The Narayani river of Nepal is being polluted by factories located near its banks. This has endangered dolphins, fish, crocodiles and other flora and fauna of the river. According to the fisherfolk, the most polluting factories in this region are Bhrikuti Paper and Pulp Industries, Gorkha Brewery Limited and Sumi …
Improvements to the marine environment are likely to have led to the return of white dolphins to Shenzhen Harbour in China's Guangdong province after more than a decade's absence. In the past few weeks, officials with the Nanshan Supervision Station of the Shenzhen Maritime Safety Administration (SMSA) have sighted five-six …
AFTER Rachel Carson's passionate polemic Silent Spring was published in 1962, environmentalism in the West assumed urgency and a sense of purpose. The pervasive popularity of this particular philosophy has transformed Western society through legislation, popular pressure, and individual initiatives. Although transparent and virtually inflexible procedures for safeguarding the environment …
Scientists in the UK claim to have developed a liquid that can replace the traditional methods of cleaning up the sea after an oil spill. Stephen Mudge, a marine scientist at the School of Ocean Sciences at the University of Wales, UK, and his team has found that biodiesel, a …
as france pressed on with mopping-up operations to cleanse parts of its Atlantic coastline polluted by an oil spill recently, a Dutch orinthologist said that oil from the sunken tanker Erika may contain cancer-causing additives. French president Jacques Chiraq, who toured the area along the coast which was badly damaged …
on december 13, Erika, a 25-year-old tanker carrying over 30,000 tonnes of TotalFina crude broke into two and sank just south of the English Channel. The massive oil slick spread along 500 km of the French coast. For over three weeks after the incident, the company, French oil giant TotalFina, …
Pollution at the popular Bang Poo resort is threatening the survival of migratory seabirds that come from Siberia. Discharge from factories and the death of the mangrove forest
the world's second-largest passenger cruise line the Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd has been fined us $6.5 million for dumping oily bilge water and other pollutants into Alaskan waters. "What happened is inexcusable. The company should have been able to avoid such an accident,' ruled John Sedwick, a us district court …
The Indian coasts are to be opened to accommodate construction activities. There is a debate brewing in the nation today whether this move will benefit the coastal communities or simply fill the coffers of certain powerful lobbies. There is also a feeling that it will thrust the fragile marine ecosystem …
more than one in 10 of the aquatic birds in Spain's Donana National Park are suffering from the effects of high levels of heavy metals after a toxic spill at the Los Frailes zinc mine a year ago, said a report. The report by Spain's Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas …
About 110,000 litres (24,200 gallons) of diesel oil was spilled after two tankers collided near southern Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, an official from the city's environment department said. The accident took place 500 metres from the Nha Be Petroleum Storage Depot. "About 110,000 litres of diesel spilled into …
A judge has frozen the Argentine assets worth us $60 million of Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell Group and a German firm after an oil spill in the River Plate, a local official said. Juan Sibetti, mayor of Magdalena, 110 km southeast of Buenos Aires, told news agencies the assets …
large numbers of whale deaths off Mexico's coasts were most likely caused by humans polluting the seas, but the real answer may never be known due to government foot-dragging, environmentalists said. Mexico has recorded at least four massive die-offs of whales and other marine mammals since 1993, the latest occurring …
toxic wastes are leaching into the North Sea from piles of debris heaped up beneath oil rigs, reports a new survey. Levels of heavy metals dissolved in water immediately above the dumps exceed environmental safety limits, say scientists at the Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory near Oban, Scotland. Their effects on marine …
THE flow of radioactive waste into the Irish Sea will be rapidly cut, Britain promised recently. But the clean-up will take much longer than what the government has suggested, say expert calculations. At a meeting of the member nations at the Oslo-Paris (OSPAR) convention on marine pollution in the northeast …
FISH in the Sea of Japan have been found to have high levels of toxic chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBS) and dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT). A team of researchers led by Shinsuke Tanabe, professor at the Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, found blackfish, striped dolphins and killer whales with high contents …
LARGE areas of western Siberia and the Arctic Ocean are facing threat of conta-mination by deposits of radioactive salts in a Ural Mountains lake, says Yuri Vishnevsky, head of the Russia's Nuclear Supervision Service. The Mayak nuclear power plant has dumped nuclear waste in the ponds in the region. Consequently, …
