Environmental Flow News Today

A 1,905km trip between Santiago in Chile and Santa Cruz in Bolivia ranks top, according to Turbli, a turbulence forecast website which analysed 150,000 flight records from 2023.

In the wake of the Singapore Airlines horror, experts have revealed just how this terrifying and unpredictable weather phenomenon comes about.

It aims at advancing SDGs by transforming the food, land, and water systems in the Indus Basin

A new national research facility could significantly improve our understanding of infectious diseases, aging and cancers, leading to novel treatments and vaccines.

In an open access paper in the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) have investigated the effect of group riding on cyclists’ exposure to vehicle pollutants. For major cycle lanes cutting thorough many large cities, cars and bicycles share the same stretch...

A recent study carried out by researchers at the University of Surrey found that fumes from passing cars can become trapped within a group of cyclists, increasing their exposure to harmful pollutants

Having worked as an MCERTS Site Inspector, since the early days of the scheme and having carried out, at my last estimation, around 5000 MCERTS Site inspections across virtually all the Water companies and industry, I am often asked for my views on the MCERTS programme. Click to read more...

Abstract Environmental flow releases in lowland Australian rivers are currently timed to avoid high-carbon production on floodplains. Moreover, return flows (water draining from floodplains back into rivers) are avoided if there exists a risk of introducing deoxygenated “blackwater” into the main channel. This concern has restricted the range of possible watering scenarios being considered by environmental flow managers. We utilised a series of blackwater flows in the lower Murrumbidgee flo...

Is the Uttarakhand Tragedy Tied to Rawat Govts Move to Reduce Water Flow from Hydro Projects? In 2018, the Centre had fixed environmental flow of the Himalayan Ganga at 20-30%. However, the Rawat government asked this limit to be further reduced to avoid monetary losses. Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel carry out search and rescue operation near the damaged Tapovan hydel project tunnel, after the glacier burst in Joshimath causing a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river, in Chamoli distr...