Environment

31 March 2022; MEMO: The longest suspension bridge in the world (the '1915 Canakkale Bridge') in Turkey will save £348 million ($457 million) a year in fuel consumption and emissions, local Turkish media reports.

According to the report, the bridge, with a two-kilometre (2,023m, 6,637ft) span between its towers, will connect Europe and Asia.

The '1915 Canakkale Bridge' cost 2.5 billion Euros ($2.7billion/£2.1billion) to build.

The bridge's toll fee will be 200 Turkish liras ($13.60/£10.30).

Kanpur: We can cover a distance of above two to three kilometres in the morning time. How is it possible in the early morning? This is as simple as two plus one turns three literally. 

Morning walkers even agree with this norm. The two walkers taking a morning walk from Jajmau Nai Chungi to JK Colony onwards in the Jajmau area were overheard saying so. 

As we know the comparatively atmospheric air in Jajmau remains a little bit fresh at that time so we do not feel enough trouble in completing that much distance easily.

Kanpur: Pollution in atmospheric air is too much, says a leather professional. He has been living in the Jajmau area for the past several years. Or, in a more precise way since he has been married luckily.

In search of puffing fresh air he went up above the fifth storey of his building but what broke the spell was the prevalence of dusty, filthy air. It was extremely unbearable for him.

Therefore he decided to walk in the serene air available on the Cantonment area spanning from the Golf Course to the second gate opening towards the Mall Road side here.

Kanpur: Owing to the grave negligence of the municipal corporation, Jalkal, Jal Sansthan and Pollution Control Board, the Namami Gangey Project to make Ganga pure seems to be sabotaged here.

Drains in Sisamau, Parmat, Baba Ghat, Guptar Ghat, Paramiya Purwa and Nawabganj areas were shut down by spending a whopping Rs 63 crore way back in the year of 2018.

Recently, the Sisamau drain, was tracked and monitored by officials. They found that water from the drain was still being dumped into the Ganga.

New Delhi, Mar 21 (PTI) The Centre on Monday said of the 1,080 industries causing pollution in Ganga in five states, 190 have been closed while 165 are still not complying with norms.

Of the 165, closure orders have been issued to nine and show-cause notices has been served to 156 grossly polluting industries, it said.

Responding to a question in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Jal Shakti Bishweswar Tudu said about 280.17 million litres per day (MLD) effluents is being discharged into river Ganga main stem having BOD load of 9.68 tons per day.

17 March 2022; MEMO: The UK Export Finance Agency has signed a €2.1bn loan guarantee deal to support the development of a major electric rail project in Turkey.

The agreement has been announced at today's "UK-Turkiye Green Finance Conference".

This agreement aims to build trading relationship between Turkiye and the UK, decarbonise travel and help Turkey to meet its zero emission target.

Jakarta, Mar 3 (AP) The walls of Saifullah's home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwaters have reached each year some more than 4 feet from the damp dirt floor.

When the water gets too high, Saifullah, who like many Indonesians only uses one name, sends his family to stay with friends. He guards the house until the water can be drained using a makeshift pump. If the pump stops working, he uses a bucket or just waits until the water recedes.

It's a normal thing here, Saifullah, 73, said. But this is our home. Where should we go?"

New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI) The National Green Tribunal has slapped a penalty of Rs 25 crore on Vedanta group firm Hindustan Zinc Ltd for violation of environmental norms in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district.

The green panel said environmental law violations cannot be taken lightly when the violators are entities like the present project proponent (PP) and victims are poor villagers.

Agartala, Feb 6 (PTI) Tripura's forestry department is embarking on a project to breed the endangered vulture specie in Khowai district through program for vulture conservation and artificial breeding'.

The decision was taken after it was noticed that Khowai had higher concentration of vulture population, said officials who added that vultures would be brought in from other states to help in the artificial breeding.

27 Jan 2022; MEMO: A rare heavy snowfall covered Jerusalem and hilly areas in the occupied West Bank overnight into Thursday, shutting down roads and schools, Reuters reports.

Worshippers had to trudge through inches of snow to reach the holy sites in Jerusalem's walled Old City, including the snow-capped Dome of the Rock.

Heavy snow is rare in the city, so children went out into the streets to watch the flakes falling and hurl snowballs at each other.