The Sikh holy city of Amritsar was the hottest place in Punjab with the temperature at a sizzling 44.5 degrees Celsius. Karnal in Haryana recorded 43 degrees while Ambala was lower at 39.8. Ludhiana and Patiala in Punjab recorded 42.8 degrees and 4?.5, respectively. Power cuts at most places in both the states made life [...]
A deep-sea trawl by marine scientists has come up with hundreds of species of zooplankton – from tiny shrimp-like creatures and swimming worms to flying snails and pulsing jellyfish.
They added that the vast environmental changes brought about by the process will increase droughts and sandstorms over the rest of the country, and devastate many of the world’s greatest rivers, in what experts warn will be an "ecological catastrophe". The plateau, says the academy, has a staggering 46,298 glaciers, covering almost 60,000 square miles. [...]
The evidence – which is being taken seriously by national and international bodies and authorities – suggests that almost everyone is being exposed to a new form of pollution with countless sources in daily use in every home. Two official Department of Health reports on the smog are to be presented to ministers next month, [...]
Seeing it disappearing into the bamboo forest, Liu Bin, the 28-year-old keeper, had tears in his eyes. "Xiang Xiang is just like my child, who has grown up and will leave the family to live a life independently," said Liu, "I hate to part with Xiang Xiang but I hope it can survive on its [...]
The admission came after warnings about such trees from ministers from over 100 countries at a UN conference in Curitiba, Brazil. They urged a "precautionary approach" towards them after hearing that they could "wreak ecological havoc throughout the world’s forests". Some 16 countries around the world are developing GM trees, and more than a million [...]
Acting under advice from the government’s wildlife agency, English Nature, 11 local authorities in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire have frozen all new housing planning applications since October last year inside a vast cordon around the birds’ breeding habitats, patches of heather-covered lowland heath dotted across the area. In doing so they have put future plans [...]
For the past 15 months, Mr Livingstone revealed to The Independent, no one in his household has flushed the toilet after urinating. The capital’s first citizen has, he explains, been conducting an experiment based on the old adage "if it’s yellow, let it mellow". It has worked so well that he now hopes all Londoners [...]
Meanwhile, the participating students have started working on the proposed projects to be completed and reported on their results before the end of the current school year. The company has set aside a special budget to finance a number of environmental researches and projects to be selected by the secretariat that includes representatives of ministry, [...]
The tremor was felt in an area located 50.82 degrees in longitude and 31.70 degrees in latitude, the report added. There have been no reports of any casualty or damage to property caused by the quake. Iran is often hit by quakes of varying magnitudes as it sits on some of the world’s most active [...]
