Environment

Fears of 30,000-litre sulphuric acid leak from Australian train derailment

It was feared more than 30,000 litres (7,925 gallons) of sulphuric acid had spilled after all 26 carriages of a freight train carrying the chemical derailed in remote northern Australia, authoritie

Publication Date: 
29/12/2015
Reuters
Tags:
Environment, Chemical Leakages, Australia, Water Pollution, Ecology
Habitat And Urbanisation

2015 China sustainable cities report: measuring ecological and human development

The 2015 China Sustainable Cities Report examines the performance of 35 big and medium-sized cities according to 12 human development and environmental indicators. It also looks at the efficiency of the cities’ environmental inputs relative to their human development outputs.

Publication Date: 
28/12/2015
UNDP
Tags:
Urban Development, Urbanisation, Sustainable Development, China, Environment, Ecology, Urban Planning, Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases
Forests

GHMC Plans Massive Drive to Improve Green Cover in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: The urban biodiversity (parks) wing of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has woken up from deep slumber and plans to take up measures in the next financial year to increase the gr

Publication Date: 
28/12/2015
New Indian Express (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Telangana, Hyderabad (T), Afforestation, Municipal Corporation, Ecology, Forests, Trees
Environment

Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas.org): India reaches the top while mapping the ecological conflicts and environmental injustices

The Environmental Justice Atlas or EJAtlas.org is a freely accessible on-line interactive information portal that helps academic scholars and public policymakers across the world in identifying exemplary cases of peoples’ resistance against climate change and environment degradation. EJAtlas.org is conceived by the EJOLT project – an acronym for the ‘Environmental Justice, Liabilities and Trade’ project. EJOLT is a European Commission FP7 programme-funded global research project operated during 2011–2015 and concluded recently.

Publication Date: 
25/12/2015
Anup Kumar Das
Current Science
109
12
2176-2177
Tags:
Environment, Conflicts, India, Ecology, Water Demand, Water Distribution, Water Disputes, Forests, Water Resources, Global
Mining

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding unregulated mining activity and transportation of coal, Meghalaya, 23/12/2015

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of All Dimasa Students Union Dima Hasao Dist. Committee Vs. State of Meghalaya & Ors. dated 23/12/2015 regarding illegal, unscientific, unregulated mining activity being carried on in the state of Meghalaya as well as on transportation of the coal.

Judgement Date: 
23/12/2015
Tags:
Mining, Coal, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, River Pollution, Ecology, Ministry of Coal
Environment

Brazil dam disaster: judge freezes assets of miners BHP and Vale

Brazilian government holds the mining giants responsible for one of the nation’s worst ever environmental disasters, and is demanding $5bn

Publication Date: 
21/12/2015
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Environment, Dams, Hazardous Waste, Brazil, Mining, Industry, Pollution, Ecology
Environment

Street play on protecting ecology staged at Bondla

Keri: Volunteers of the Vivekanand environment awareness brigade of Keri-Sattari presented a street play to create environment awareness at a nature orientation camp organized by the extension and

Publication Date: 
21/12/2015
Rajendra P Kerkar
Times Of India (Goa)
Tags:
Goa, Environment Education, Ecology, Bondla SA, Water Harvesting, Biodiversity, People - Animal Conflicts, Environment
Biodiversity

Rarity in mass extinctions and the future of ecosystems

The fossil record provides striking case studies of biodiversity loss and global ecosystem upheaval. Because of this, many studies have sought to assess the magnitude of the current biodiversity crisis relative to past crises—a task greatly complicated by the need to extrapolate extinction rates. Here we challenge this approach by showing that the rarity of previously abundant taxa may be more important than extinction in the cascade of events leading to global changes in the biosphere.

Publication Date: 
17/12/2015
Pincelli M. Hull, Simon A. F. Darroch, Douglas H. Erwin
Nature
345-351
Tags:
Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Extinct Species, Fossils, Ecology, Flora, Fauna
Environment

Nigeria: Again, Shell Faces Dutch Court Over Niger Delta Oil Damage

Amnesty International has said Shell could be exposed to a raft of compensation claims and be forced to disclose previously withheld internal documents over its failure to stop and clean up decades

Publication Date: 
17/12/2015
All Africa
Tags:
Environment, Oil Pollution, Petrochemical Industry, Nigeria, Compensation, Ecology, Africa
Forests

SMVD Shrine Board takes big step towards environment conservation of Trikuta Hills

Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board has shown deep commitment toward conservation and protection of environment and ecology of Trikuta Hills and has taken effective steps to increase the green cove

Publication Date: 
16/12/2015
Daily Excelsior (Jammu)
Tags:
Afforestation, Religious Places, Trees, Environmental Security, Monsoons, Ecology, Forests

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