Plane grounded after crashing into water buffalo on runway in India
A plane has hit a stray buffalo that wandered on to a runway in the western Indian city of Surat. The Boeing 737 was preparing to take off on Thursday night when it collided with the animal, which was...
View ArticleOpen-billed storks flock to Raiganj
The Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district, which attracted a record 68,000 birds in 2014, has the most Asian open-billed storks in the country. As per records available...
View ArticleIndia’s first nesting site of white-bellied heron found
A nesting site of the extremely rare white-bellied heron has been discovered in a remote part of the Namdapha Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh. It is estimated that there are only 250 white-bellied...
View ArticleFire delays flights by 2 hrs
Lucknow: Flight operations at Amausi airport came to a halt for over two hours on Saturday afternoon after side strip of a runway caught fire. The incident was reported to have occurred because of...
View ArticleDay after bird-hit, patrolling intensified on Amausi runway
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow airport authorities increased patrolling around the runway on Saturday, a day after a bird hit an aircraft headed to Delhi with 147 passengers on board. On Friday, the Delhi-bound...
View ArticleDGCA directs Raipur airport authorities to control bird activity
RAIPUR: A team of Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which inspected the Swami Vivekananda Airport on Monday, a fallout of the incident of a buffalo straying at Surat airport recently, has...
View ArticleBuffalo on runway triggers DGCA alarm on 18 airports
NEW DELHI: A SpiceJet aircraft taxiing to take off hitting a buffalo on Surat runway has exposed the harsh reality of Indian airports: they are virtually grazing ground for cattle and their dirty...
View ArticleOpen dumping of waste near airport attracts birds, hampering flier safety
COIMBATORE: Despite measures that have been taken inside the Coimbatore international airport complex, incidents of bird hits continue to haunt airport officials and passengers alike. Airport...
View ArticleMadhyamgram role model for airport safety
KOLKATA: State home secretary Basudeb Banerjee has asked Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation and North Dum Dum, South Dum Dum and New Barrackpore municipalities to emulate Madhyamgram municipality in...
View ArticleWaste near airport ups bird-hit risk
COIMBATORE: The city airport authorities claim that the indiscriminate dumping of waste along the periphery of the airport has been a long-standing problem that has been endangering the safety of air...
View ArticleOrnithologists study bird menace at city airport
BHUBANESWAR: Ornithologists and airport officials on Monday jointly conducted an inspection to take stock of the prevailing bird menace at Biju Patnaik International Airport. Presence of a large number...
View ArticleScare at airport as animal strays into runway
KOLKATA: A canine was seen on the runway at Kolkata airport on Saturday evening, forcing an Air India flight to abort landing and hover around till the trespasser was chased away. It caused quite a...
View ArticleSutli bombs prevent bird-hits at Amausi
LUCKNOW: A loud bang at Amausi airport just before an aircraft approaches or takes off from the runway should be nothing to panic about. Alarmed with the large number of birds flying around the tarmac...
View ArticleFire at Lucknow airport runway, eight flights affected
LUCKNOW: Flight operations at Amausi airport came to a halt for nearly half an hour on Saturday afternoon after side strip of runway caught fire. The incident was reported to have occurred because of...
View Article$40bn to save Jakarta: the story of the Great Garuda
Forget Venice. The fastest-sinking city is the Indonesian capital, parts of which are dropping at 25cm a year. Can an outlandish plan for a giant seawall and luxury waterworld city in the shape of a...
View ArticleBeyond Gang Green: The Changing Face of Environmentalism
David Brower & Martin Litton, Photo: John Loeffler On May 3, 1969, after hours of bitter debate, the Sierra Club fired David Brower. The organization’s first paid staffer, Brower had transformed...
View ArticleWhere have the birds gone?
Migratory birds which fly thousands of kilometres from places like Siberia every winter are now increasingly giving the Okhla Bird Sanctuary a miss. Okhla Bird Sanctuary has for long been known as a...
View ArticleFlydubai flight records – the leaked documents
Pilots describe incidents including a bomb threat, bird strikes, mistakes caused by fatigue and abuse from passengers...
View ArticleFear of bird strikes factors into effort to solve landfill issues
Beyond radioactive waste, burning trash and dangerous chemicals, there’s another risk that could hamper construction of a protective barrier between Bridgeton and West Lake landfills. Birds. City of...
View ArticleCan India's Sacred But 'Dead' Yamuna River Be Saved?
i Men watch the fires of a cremation along the banks of the Yamuna River against the backdrop of the Wazirabad Barrage and floating industrial waste. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption toggle caption David...
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