Snehal Fernandes

Lack of green cover steps up the heat in Mumbai

Concerns among Mumbaiites about experiencing extreme heat are not unfounded. Urbanisation, the growth in the extent of concrete surfaces, high-rise buildings with glass facades, and a decline in tree cover has been warming the city over the past three decades, says an analysis of urban heat islands by Mithibai College, Vile Parle, and the University Grants Commission

Lack of green cover steps up the heat

Air pollution worries Mumbaiites the most: Survey

World Environment Day: Pollution worries Mumbai most: Survey

When it comes to the environment, what worries Mumbaiites most is air pollution

Air pollution shortens your life by 3.4 years, Delhiites worst hit

The study conducted by the IITM and Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA was published in Geophysical Research Letters

Scientists find a way to capture CO2 emitted by industries

TIFR scientists have designed and developed a material that uses fibrous nanosilica (KCC-1) – that can absorb and capture carbon dioxide gas released by industries more efficiently than materials available at present

Mapping genes: How did people travel 10,000 years ago?

Indian team of researchers said the study will help historians and archaeologists locate sites of similar population in a country

Far-off oceans fuelling heat wave

Unbearable hot winds not result of global warming but gaining power from North Atlantic and Pacific oceans

SC sets aside Bombay HC order on Ulhas river

In 2013, NGO Vanashakti filed a petition with the NGT to direct the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to shut all polluting industries discharging untreated effluents into the Ulhas river in violation of environment rules

Pollution monitoring in Mumbai not up to the mark, says study

Currently, Mumbai has two manual air monitoring stations. Only one of the four real-time monitoring stations is in operation and has recorded AQI for just 80 days between January 2016 and March 2016

Wheat, corn, pollen and more: Indians most sensitive to 24 food items

The EuroPrevall study, a survey of the general population, found that 26.5% Indians are sensitive to shrimp, sesame, wheat, corn and tomato — significantly higher than Europeans (16.2%)

India gets first heat-wave forecast

The forecast will be released every five days and can predict how hot the next 20 days will be

Updates every 3 hours on how hot it is: India gets its first heat index

As several parts of the country experience heat wave, and with summer temperatures steadily on the rise, India is set to get its own heat index.

Ulhas river pollution: Green tribunal directs Centre to intervene

As the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) failed to stop the flow of untreated industrial waste into Ulhas river, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed the Union environment ministry (MoEF) to intervene in the matter

Air quality poorest in Maravali, Deonar and Andheri

The study found that Khar and Bhandup were exposed to high NO2 and PM10 levels

Five years on, Japanese recount life post Fukushima N-disaster

More than 300,000 people had to be evacuated after three of Fukushima’s six reactors blew up following the huge tsunami

Plugging leaks around your home, one tap at a time

An analysis by think-tank Observer Research Foundation has estimated that Mumbai loses about 650 million litres of water every single day due to leaking