If other regions go green it’s time to rejoice but not when Antarctica, an icy edge on the other side of the earth goes green, repleting its ice. Scientists cry foul as it indicates climate change, significantly global warming that is melting down the ice and giving scope to green algae now. A team of scientists from the University of ...
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Vehicle Manufacturers Have to Give Emission, Noise Levels of Each Vehicle Produced
Come 1st of April 2017, manufacturers of all kinds of motor vehicles as also E-rickshaws and E-carts will have to give detailed declaration about the emission levels of the vehicle they have manufactured. Through a recent notification, the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has amended Form 22 under the Central Motor Vehicles Act, 1989, through which manufacturers provide the ...
Read More »India Welcomes Landmark Carbon Pact by 200 Nations at Kigali
India welcomed the Hydroflurocarbon (HFC) Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, agreed to at the 28th Meeting of Parties at Kigali, Rwanda in a move to make climate change talks more effective and fruitful in the future. TheĀ Agreement will lead to a reduction of 0.5 degree in global temp by the end of the century and enable India to achieve the ...
Read More »Varthu-Bellandu is Passe, Maragondanahalli (Ramapura) Lake Seen Covered with Froth
One more lake has fallen prey to industrial waste in Bangalore with froth decimating the water beneath totally as reports showed. This is second such lake which has become a victim of mindless industrial waste illegally diverted to lakes in the tech capital of India. History shows that 40 years ago when the locality people faced acute shortage of water ...
Read More »Cloth Masks Worn by Nurses, Traffic Cops Dubious, Ineffective: Study
It is mere a psychological re-assurance to medical fraternity, especially nurses and the most visible traffic cops in cities who wear them religiously but not realising that they are durbious and ineffective giving them a false sense of security, scientists have warned. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in a first of its kind study, tested disposable surgical masks ...
Read More »TATA Projects to Execute the Rejuvenation of Dravyawati River
A Consortium of TATA Projects Limited and Shanghai Urban Construction Group received the multi-crore rupees project from Government of Rajasthan, the first river rejuvenation project in the country on a dry and arid landscape. TATA Projects Limited said the execution of rejuvenation of Dravyawati River worth Rs.1,676 crore will be taken up on 47-km long river in Jaisalya village, which ...
Read More »Perfect ‘Einstein Ring’ 10000 Light Years Away Discovered
The phenomena of an Einstein ring that was predicted by Einstein’s theory of General Relativity but remained a mystery has recently been discovered by researchers. An Einstein ring is a distorted image of a very distant galaxy, which is termed “the source” that produces the bending of the light rays due to a massive galaxy, termed “the lens”, lying between ...
Read More »World Forest Day: Javadekar Refutes Environmental Degradation by Companies
On the occasion of World Forest Day or International Day of Forests, India’s Union Minister for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar refused focus of some plays which blamed companies for environmental degradation and alter joined Delhi Environment Minister Imran Hussain for a walk with students in Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary in Delhi Monday. The Event was held later at the ...
Read More »Agasthyamala Reserve Joins UN Top 20 World Biospheres’ List (Full List)
The Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve in Tamil Nadu and Kerala has made it to top 20 new sites added by the UN to its list of UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The International Co-ordinating Council, which met in Lima, Peru on Saturday said with the addition of 20 more reserves, the total number of biosphere reserves will be 669 sites ...
Read More »Earth Hour Not to Disrupt India-Pakistan T20 World Cup Match at Eden Gardens
Since Earth Hour from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM is scheduled on March 19 when India and Pakistan will clash on Eden Gardens for the ICC World T20 2016 match that has made headlines for over a year, it is unlikely that organisers will cancel the match as the stadium is expected to be fully packed and over a billion ...
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