Environment

India-based Neutrino Observatory case to come up before green tribunal today

CHENNAI: The contentious India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) case will come up for admission before the Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in Delhi on Friday.

Publication Date: 
27/04/2018
New Indian Express (Chennai)
Tags:
Tamil Nadu, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Environmentalists, Environment Clearance (EC), Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Ecology, Eco-Sensitive Zone, Environment
Climate Change

Climate change is mixing up nature’s dinner time: Study

Global warming is screwing up nature’s intricately timed dinner hour, often making hungry critters and those on the menu show up at much different times, a new study shows.

Publication Date: 
26/04/2018
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Global Warming, Sparrow, Diseases, Ecology
Environment

Study by IIT-Bombay, NGO Sanjay Gandhi park to gauge its contribution to Mumbai’s ecosystem

Purpose is to place monetary value on services — absorption of carbon dioxide, cleansing oxygen and supplying water

Publication Date: 
23/04/2018
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Sanjay Ganghi NP, Ecosystems, Mumbai, Carbon Dioxide, Drinking Water, Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Wildlife, Ecology, Environment
Energy

Push for study on hydel project

Guwahati: The standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has called for initiating a comprehensive study on the hydrology and ecology of the Demwe hydel power project in Arunachal

Publication Date: 
20/04/2018
Telegraph (North East)
Tags:
Arunachal, Hydroelectricity, North East, Wildlife, Hydrology, Ecology, Energy
Environment

Protect Sabarimala ecology, says panel

Assembly panel visits Erumely, Nilackal, Pampa

Publication Date: 
18/04/2018
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Kerala, Ecology, Environmental Health, Pollution, Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Environmental Security, Waste Disposal, Environment
Environment

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal bandhs and fisheries detrimental to the existence of Sundarbans, West Bengal, 16/04/2018

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench) in the matter of Abdullah Sardar Vs Divisional Forest Officer & Others dated 16/04/2018 regarding illegal bandhs and fisheries detrimental to the existence of Sundarbans.

NGT directs the State of West Bengal to file status report on the removal of illegal bandhs and fisheries as well as on the plantation of the mangroves.

Judgement Date: 
16/04/2018
Tags:
Sundarbans, West Bengal, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Fisheries, Ecology
Wildlife

Firm assures SGR project will not affect Kenya wildlife heritage

NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- The Chinese firm extending Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from Kenya’s Nairobi to Naivasha has said the project will not affect the health of the country’s wildlife herita

Publication Date: 
16/04/2018
Coast Week (Kenya)
Tags:
Wildlife, Biodiversity, Environment, Development, Ecology, China, National Parks, Africa
Environment

Government activates national oil spill contingency plan

The Federal Government and oil firm, Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) have concluded arrangement to carry out activation of National Oil Spill Contingency Plan (NOSCP) as agreed by the stakeholders.

Publication Date: 
16/04/2018
Guardian (Nigeria)
Tags:
Environment, Nigeria, Oil Pollution, Africa, Ecology
Forests

Civil society groups flag loopholes in draft National Forest Policy; Oppose PPP model of afforestation

NEW DELHI: Over 100 civil society organisations from 15 states have flagged several loopholes in the Centre’s draft National Forest Policy 2018 and questioned environment ministry over the rational

Publication Date: 
16/04/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forest Policy, Afforestation, Forest Rights Act 2006, Panchayats, Ecology, Forests
Pesticides And Toxins

Airborne polycyclic aromatic compounds contribute to the induction of the tumour-suppressing P53 pathway in wild double-crested cormorants

Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs), including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and PAH-like compounds are known or probable environmental carcinogens released into the environment as a by-product of incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and other organic materials. Studies have shown that exposure to PACs in the environment can induce both genotoxicity and epigenetic toxicity, but few studies have related PAC exposure to molecular changes in free ranging wildlife.

Publication Date: 
15/04/2018
S. J. Wallace, S. R. de Solla, P. J. Thomas
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
150
176-189
Tags:
Fossil Fuels, Toxins, Birds, Toxicity Studies, Wildlife, Industrial Pollution, Canada, Ecology

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