China to ban water-polluting paper mills, oil refineries

BEIJING: China will ban water-polluting paper mills, oil refineries, pesticide producers and other industrial plants by the end of 2016, as it moves to tackle severe pollution of the country's water supply.The long-awaited plan comes as the central government...

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Apple invests in China solar project, US forest conservation

PALO ALTO: Apple is expanding its environmental efforts by investing in a new Chinese solar power project and preserving 36,000 acres of "sustainable'' timberland in Maine and North Carolina.The initiatives come as the tech giant this year met a self-imposed...

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Centre appoints task-force to help build consensus on river inter-linking

NEW DELHI: The Centre has set up a task force to look into various contentious issues relating to inter-linking of rivers. Role of this panel of experts will be to forge a consensus among states that are not on the same page over the plan to link rivers...

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Scientists find a 'deeply' safe way to dispose n-waste

LONDON: Scientists have suggested a new way of safely disposing high-emission nuclear waste -- burying it deep down into the earth. The concept, called deep borehole disposal, has been developed primarily in England but is likely to see its first field...

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Ban on old diesel vehicles may not be enough to clean up Delhi air

NEW DELHI: Banning old diesel vehicles may not be enough to address severe air pollution in Delhi. Other countries have been imposing higher taxes, excise duties and registration costs to discourage people from buying diesel vehicles. They have also...

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Music: Will climate change give us the blues?

VIENNA: Climate change is predicted to intrude into almost every area of life -- from where we live, to what we eat and whom we war with.Now music can be added to the list. That's the unusual idea put forward by British researchers Tuesday, who say the...

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Rajasthan's efforts for greenery commendable: Javadekar

UDAIPUR: Rajasthan would soon be turned into a "green state" with the development of more biological parks such as Sajjangarh, said the Union environment and forest minister Prakash Javadekar on Sunday during inauguration of the first biological park...

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China to surpass US as top cause of modern global warming

OSLO: China is poised to overtake the United States as the main cause of man-made global warming since 1990, the benchmark year for U.N.-led action, in a historic shift that may raise pressure on Beijing to act.China's cumulative greenhouse gas emissions...

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GTA introduces eco-friendly cars for tourists in hills

DARJEELING: Aimed at providing better infrastruture to the tourists to the hills, the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) today introduced three battery powered cars.The eco-friendly cars, plying along the most frequented 2-km route from Darjeeling...

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10 air pollution monitoring stations in city exceed national average

BENGALURU: That long wait at the Silk Board junction for the signal is not only delaying you but also slowly killing you, adding pollutants to your lungs. For, the air pollution at the junction on Hosur Road is 146% higher than the national permissible...

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Mass beaching fuels 'unscientific' Japan quake fears

TOKYO: The mass beaching of more than 150 melon-headed whales on Japan's shores has fuelled fears of a repeat of a seemingly unrelated event in the country — the devastating 2011 undersea earthquake that killed around 19,000 people.Despite a lack of...

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Is too much exposure to outdoors bad?

MELBOURNE: Several studies have linked exposure to nature with improved human health and well-being. But how much of the nature's dose do we really need?Researchers are trying to find a precise "nature dose" that can trigger positive effects on health."Urban...

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Lessons for cops on wildlife crime

CUTTACK: Police officers were imparted lessons on latest techniques and tools to effectively deal with wildlife-related crimes, especially poaching, at a daylong workshop organized by the Crime Branch here on Thursday."With almost one-third of Odisha...

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Toxic carbide waste: Centre red-flags UNEP study offer

BHOPAL: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) offer for a comprehensive assessment of depth and spread of contaminants in and around Union Carbide factory has been red-flagged by Union government.Activists allege contamination from abandoned factory,...

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Economic study pegs value for Sundarbans and other tiger reserves

KOLKATA: Tiger reserves may not be solely about conservation. They also have tremendous economic value, the first ever Economic Valuation of Tiger Reserves in India, published by the Centre for Ecological Services Management (CESM) and Indian Institute...

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Delhi air pollution: A hara-kiri in waiting!

Air pollution level of Delhi has been in news for some time now. Over the year New York Times published two reports about Delhi being Wolds's most polluted city. Recently an Indian newspaper published an article in which leading doctors of Delhi are...

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Make diesel clean and check its sale: Activists

NEW DELHI: The decision to ban diesel vehicles that are over 10 years old from Delhi has been welcomed by environmentalists though they have voiced their concern about how the order will be implemented and its fallout.Former Central Pollution Control...

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Anaesthetic gases raising Earth's temperature too

LONDON: Anaesthetic gases may help doctors to cause temporary loss of sensation in patients and carry out surgery smoothly, but by accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere, they also contribute to climate change, says a new study.Over the past decade,...

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Mangaluru's Pilikula to get hippos, Asiatic lions

MANGALURU: The Pilikula Nisargadhama is all set to welcome new guests to its sprawling zoo.As part of the mutual exchange programme with the zoo authorities of Thiruvanathapuram, Chennai and Gujarat, the Pilikula Biological Park of Dr Shivarama Karantha...

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Over 1 crore renewable energy certificates unsold at IEX

NEW DELHI: Showing continued sluggishness in the renewable energy certificates market, more than one crore such certificates remain unsold at the power bourse IEX, even as the government aims to boost green energy generation in the country.Renewable...

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Eco-friendly cremations gaining acceptance in China

BEIJING: Cremation of the deceased instead of traditional practice of burials is gaining increasing acceptance in China with nearly 50 per cent of the dead being cremated last year to promote environmentalism and save land.Of the 9.77 million Chinese...

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Koramangala lake to be restored by May

BENGALURU: Vigilant citizens successfully ensured that a water body is not allowed to die by design so the tank bed is not usurped by land sharks. Mestripalya lake in Koramangala, which was all but lost to encroachment, on Friday stood testimony to citizen...

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Himalayan vulture makes a comeback in the Aravalis

NEW DELHI: The Himalayan griffon vulture, a threatened species was recently spotted in the Aravalis along Gurgaon-Faridabad highway, near Mangar Bani sacred grove. While the Griffon may have been spotted in the 1990s in NCR by some birders, its sighting...

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Tourists allowed to enter core area of tiger reserve at night

UDHAGAMANDALAM: Wildlife activists are up in arms after a group of tourists entered the core area of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) in the Nilgiris and took out a night safari with the help of forest officials on Wednesday. They continued their stay in...

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Some ants have more taste for human food than others

NEW YORK: It's not just people who love the food in New York City. So do certain ants.The most common species of ant found on the pavements of New York City and in cities around the world has a taste for human food; more than other ant species found...

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Mice sing like songbirds to woo mates

WASHINGTON: Male mice sing surprisingly complex songs to seduce females, similar to songbirds, according to a new study.For more than 50 years, it has been known that mice sing. They emit what is called 'ultrasonic vocalisations' or USVs, sounds so high-pitched...

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Delhi govt will have to act on pollution: Prakash Javadekar

NEW DELHI: In the wake of alarming air quality and mounting piles of garbage in Delhi, environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday said the state government will have to work in this regard and assured his ministry's complete support.He also announced...

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Ex-techie educates kids about tigers and conservation

MANGALURU: A former techie from Chennai who is now a homemaker here is all set to create awareness among children about tigers and conservation.Maithily Arulraja, now a part-time content writer, plans to screen 'Truth about Tigers' which triggered her...

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Sunderbans sea level to rise 3-8 mm per year: World Bank report

BALI ISLAND (Sunderbans): The water level in the Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, is rising at an "alarming" level, endangering the habitation, a World Bank report has suggested.The report stated that the sea level could witness an estimated...

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Leopard trapped in Jalpaiguri, released in forest

JALPAIGURI (WB): A full grown female leopard at Binnaguri tea garden here was captured and released in a forest on Monday, forest department officials said.Divisional forest officer (Jalpaiguri) Sunita Ghatak said the animal was caught last night in...

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US to submit plans to fight global warming; most others delay

OSLO/WASHINGTON: The United States will submit plans for slowing global warming to the United Nations early this week but most governments will miss an informal March 31 deadline, complicating work on a global climate deal due in December.The US submission,...

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Taj Corridor now an animal graveyard, garbage dump

AGRA: The Taj Corridor, a vast wasteland situated along the Yamuna river and lying between two world heritage monuments, the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort, has now been reduced to a dumping ground for garbage and an unofficial burial ground for animals.Foreign...

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Extreme winter not a result of climate change: Study

WASHINGTON: Contrary to popular belief, cold snaps like the ones that hit the eastern United States in the past winter are not a consequence of climate change, says a new study.The results, published in the Journal of Climate, showed that global warming...

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Environmental laws being reviewed to give more teeth: Prakash Javadekar

HYDERABAD: The Centre is reviewing all environmental laws with an aim to give them more teeth and hand severe punishment in cases of encroachment and violation, Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar said on Saturday.Speaking to PTI here, Javadekar...

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Four leopards die in Tripura zoo

AGARTALA: Four common leopards have died in Tripura's Sepahijala wildlife zoo and sanctuary since Monday due to Felina babesiosis, a tick-borne malaria-like illness, an official said here on Friday."All the four common leopards died in the zoo. We have...

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Norway joins race of rich nations to submit their action plans for a global climate deal

NEW DELHI: Joining race of rich nations including Switzerland and European Union (EU) countries in submitting their respective 'climate action plans' well in time, Norway on Friday submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the...

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