By Fakir Balaji Bengaluru: Three students of Bharti Vidyapeeth College of Engineering in Delhi developed an Android app to measure the alarming pollution levels in the National Capital Region (NCR), the US-based Marconi Society, which awarded them with a prize, said on Monday. “The three students of Bharti Vidyapeeth have[Read More…]
Hyderabad: With India being among the top five countries in terms of green buildings, the country should aim to make its 4,500 cities and towns environmentally friendly to enable it to grow in a sustainable manner, Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday.[Read More…]
New Delhi: Over-exploitation of nature has wiped out about 60 percent of the wildlife and 87 percent wetlands since 1970, and ours is possibly the last generation of humans with a chance to act and reverse this trend, warns the WWF’s Living Planet Report-2018. The biannual report mapped serious threats[Read More…]
Indian mountaineer and the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, Bachendri Pal took the river Ganga route to travel from Haridwar to Patna. Accompanied by a 40-member team, she travelled 2,000 kilometers to reach Patna on Sunday. After participating in the Ganga Aarti on October 05,[Read More…]
New Delhi: The air quality in Delhi-NCR worsened to the “severe” level on Tuesday, as an overnight spike in pollution covered the city in a smoky haze. The city witnessed a thick layer of haze on Tuesday morning, which affected visibility. Experts warned that episodes of smog will begin in[Read More…]
The latest report by the World Health Organization(WHO) has come up with some heartbreaking revelations. According to the report, titled, ‘Air Pollution and Child Health: Prescribing Clean Air,’ 93%(1.3 billion) of the children under the age of 15 years breath polluted air which puts their health and development at an[Read More…]
New Delhi: The air quality in Delhi and NCR went further down on Monday, with experts cautioning people to abstain from any form of brisk physical activity even in indoor gymnasiums. The Air Quality Index (AQI) of Delhi was at 367 points on Monday against 366 on Sunday and in[Read More…]
“Stubble burning and landfill fire in and around Delhi continue to increase Air Pollution Level of Delhi and situation to become worst during Diwali falling on November 7,” says Shambhavi Shukla, Senior Research Associate who works with Center for Science and Environment Air pollution Team to Newsd. Air quality has[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi Aam Admi Party (AAP) government environment minister Imran Hussain claims that the pollution level of the national capital has improved over the last three years. He said due to the measures that have been implemented to improve air quality in Delhi which include the ban on garbage[Read More…]
New Delhi: While welcoming the Supreme Court’s verdict on imposing certain restriction on the timing of bursting firecrackers, environmentalists say there is no definition of green firecrackers, while raising scepticism if this will work this Diwali which is merely two weeks away. The SC on Tuesday refused to impose a[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Saturday rushed a team of rescuers after local media reported that 12 persons, including five children, lost their lives while four others were missing due to a landslide in Gajapati district. The incident occurred in Barghara village under Gangabada panchayat under Rayagada block when the[Read More…]
Cyclone Titli is bringing dangerous flooding, uprooting trees and electric posts, damaging houses, landfall, and gusty winds and is expected to do more damages in the parts of India and Bangladesh in the coming weekends. The storm rapidly strengthened to a very severe cyclonic storm on Wednesday and Thursday witnessed[Read More…]
Clean Ganga mission crusader GD Agarwal who was on fast until death dies on Thursday after 112 days on the way to Delhi for treatment in the ambulance. Agarwal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February this year, about his grievances and demands. Agarwal an IIT Kanpur professor[Read More…]
The Bihar government has told Patna High Court on Monday that the state is going to ban all kinds of polythene in urban areas from October 25 and in rural areas from November 25. The notifications will be issued shortly after making the requisite rules, assured the Advocate-general Lalit Kishor[Read More…]
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has launched a door-to-door garbage collection programme in Patna on Monday. Under this new version of garbage collection programme, the residents in Patna will have to hand over their household waste directly to the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC). The process is made mandatory for all,[Read More…]
United States: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said climate change is an absolute priority and the world is not doing enough. “Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and we are at a defining moment,” Guterres told an informal high-level leaders dialogue on climate change on the sidelines of[Read More…]
Two lions including a lioness and a lion cub were found dead in Dalkhaniya range of Gir (East) forest on Monday September 25, taking the total death count of Asiatic lions in the area to 13 in past 10 days. The unusual occurrence that has forced the state’s forest department[Read More…]
Assam: Abandoned and rescued elephant and Rhino calves deprived of mother milk are hard to feed and harder to make them relieve. Despite their sizes, they have a weak digestive system they tend to be lactose-intolerant when fed the closest alternative — Lactogen. However, on the occasion of World Rhino[Read More…]
Mahindra & Mahindra, India’s leading manufacturer of utility vehicles and part of the $20.7 billion Mahindra Group, on Thursday announced its commitment to become a carbon neutral company by 2040. For this, the company will be working with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to meet its carbon neutrality commitment. Mahindra &[Read More…]
A sea turtle has a 22 per cent chance of dying if it eats just one piece of plastic, an Australian scientific institution revealed on Friday, quantifying for the first time the risk that plastic pollution poses to sea turtle populations. Scientists found that there was a 50 per cent[Read More…]
A surprise visit by Minister for Horticulture Mahinder Singh Thakur to Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticture and Forestry on Friday brought a disappointing fact into light. More than 60,000 high-density apple plantation material had dried up and become waste/unfit for farmer’s use. Approximately 1.39 lakh saplings imported from Italy under[Read More…]
Australian researchers on Thursday said they have developed a software tool to predict when a building will crack or its foundation will move, even when a dam could break or a mudslide occurs. The tool uses applied mathematics and big data analytics to analyse intricate ground motion patterns and track[Read More…]
Expressing concern over the increasing number of elephant deaths in India, an international organisation involved in the preservation and protection of these animals globally has stressed the urgent need for a comprehensive policy change in the country to arrest the rapid fall in elephant population. Speaking to IANS, Azzedine Downes, President and CEO of International Fund For Animal[Read More…]
Kumbakonam recently became the first town in Kerala to acquire Bandicoot, a robotic system to try and do away with manual scavenging. “Our main objective is end manual scavenging, which has casteist roots in many parts of the country. Many lives continue to be lost to manual scavenging and when[Read More…]
Manipur: The states iconic Loktak Lake and its floating islands (phumdis), the last natural refuge of the critically endangered Sangai deer, are losing ground to mushrooming agricultural practices and human settlements, reports a study. Changes in land use patterns may be linked to the construction of the Ithai barrage in[Read More…]