SRIKANT FONDEKAR, a scientist who has had a long association with the National Institute of Oceanography in Goa, has specialised in dealing with oil spills.

Newly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean have led Indian scientists to conclude that the Indian Ocean is rising faster than other oceans.
Dr Satheesh C. Shenoi, director, Indian National Centre for Ocean Infor-mation Services, speaking at a workshop on “Coasts, Coastal Populations and their Concerns” o

Energy experts warn that an acute shortage of uranium is going to hit the nuclear energy industry. Dr Yogi Goswami, co-director of the Clean Energy Research Centre at the University of Florida warns that “the proven reserves of uranium will last less than 30 years.”

Polluting industries along a 500-km stretch of the Ganga between Kannauj and Varanasi might soon face the axe.

A question mark hangs over the `54,000-crore Posco steel project with the ministry of environment forests having wide-ned the ambit of the Meena Gupta panel looking into whether this steel plant is me

The 18 crucial amendments to the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Bill, 2010, introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday are based largely on the amendments recommendations of the parliamentary standing committee on science and technology chaired by Dr T. Subbarami Reddy.

In an unprecedented decision, minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh has refused to give environmental clearance to the bauxite project proposed by industrialist Anil Aggar-wal’s Vedanta Group.

With the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill (CLNDB) to be tabled in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, minister of science and technology Prithviraj Chavan held a series of meetings with leaders of the Left parties.

With the BJP and Left parties refusing to support the amended Nuclear Liability Bill, the government was forced to relent on Monday and is now willing to make “reasonable modifications” to the bill to secure its passage in the Lok Sabha.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has lent its stamp of approval to the contentious Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, thereby clearing the decks for it to be placed in Parliament next week.