Typical agriculture sectors like animal production and processing, aquaculture and its processing, and fruit and vegetable processing, can be water-intensive and generate complex and sometimes severe pollution. Controlling pollution hinges on knowing its quantity (wastewater and solid waste volume) and characteristics (major pollutants and their concentration range, nature of wastes, …
LUSH green backwaters dotting a verdant undulating landscape along a north-south 560 km-coastal strip sporting a chain of lagoons - that is nature's gift to Kerala. These backwaters (dammed or still water beside streams and fed by the back flow) many of which are connected to the sea have played …
TRUCK manufacturers in UK never had it so good. And all it took for their trucks to sell like never before were new EU guidelines on noise and emission requirements in commercial vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tonnes. The new guidelines - Euro 2 - came into effect on all …
EVEN as fish catches across the world continue to decrease, in the European Union (EU), no great effort seems to be put into conserving the species. A concerned Emma Bonino, the EU fisheries commissioner, had proposed that a 40 per cent decrease in fish catches be observed, but this has …
FISHING nets could trap and kill porpoises that venture near the shore in search of a fish dinner. Such an occurrence was getting rather common along the shores of New England in the us. To stem this, wildlife scientists, environmentalists, engineers and fisherfolk got together to find a technical solution …
The sea of Senegal is bearing the brunt of overfishing and pollution. The fishing policy of the European Union has worsened the problem of overfishing in these waters. The eu trawlers are crowding the African coastal waters and fishing them empty. The European fish market gets 50 per cent of …
Studies by researchers at the Oregon State University, US, have shown that exposure to UV-B radiation is killing the eggs of some amphibian species. As a result, two species of amphibians
It is known that female catfishes attach their mouths to the anal region of the males during spawning. The significance of this bizarre trait has been discovered by some Japanese scientists from the laboratory of Animal Sociology at the Osaka City University. They have found that the sperm on being …
Wood can now be produced from waste. The UK's Save Wood Products Limited has come up with a product called durawood that combines the properties of wood and plastic. Derived from recycled polystyrene packaging waste, the product bears the aesthetic and physical properties of wood and the durability of plastic. …
an unusual problem has arisen off the coasts of us . It has do with the clean-up of lakes in and around the country, to get rid of waste that has led to a depletion of a certain variety of fish stock. For years, environmentalists have advocated the cleaning up …
factory trawlers operating in the north Pacific seem to be in the eye of a storm generated by Greenpeace activists in the us . The Seattle-based fleet of floating fish factories is allegedly pushing fish stocks off Alaska's shores. The port of Seattle police arrested 11 people after Greenpeace protesters …
Ninety per cent of the world's most important food crops are threatened because human behaviour is pushing pollinators towards extinction. American entomologists Stephen Buchmann and Gary Nabhan argue in their recently published book, The forgotten Pollinators , that "The world is facing an impending global pollination crisis that may have …
Three species of the partula snail have found a new home on the island of Moorea, near Tahiti. The island happens to be the world's smallest nature reserve. The American predatory snail Euglandina rosea was the cause for the extinction of the three species: P suturalis , P taeniata and …
a huge increase in public spending on science and technology attempts to motivate Japanese researchers towards strengthening the creative research sector. The council for science and technology has asked the national government to spend about us $155 billion on basic research over the next five years. At present, Japan is …
HERE is good news for all those trying to beat hunger pangs and stay on the slimmer side. Scientists from the institute of Health and Medical Sciences (INSERM), France, are a few steps away from developing a new diet control therapy that involves the use of neurotransmitters, which are chemicals …
THE latest addition to the endangered species list is not an exotic animal or bird, but the humble frog, albeit with red legs. After a year-long legal battle, the Californian red-legged frog (Rana aurora) has won a victory of sorts. It will enjoy 'the protection given to rare endangered species. …
IN THE struggle for existence, the feathered creatures are losing out to the denizens 6f the deep. Every year, Scotland carries out licenced. killing of at least a thousand wild birds to save salmons. Conservationists claim that there is no scientific justification for the cull. The Scottish Office (so) is …
AN ESTIMATED 35 million tonnes of methane goes up into the atmosphere each year, thanks to leaks in Russian gas pipelines and wellheads, says an unpublished report from Russian researchers. This comes to around a tenth of all anthropogenic emissions of the gas, second only to carbon dioxide as a …
