BENGALURU: The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) on Wednesday issued closure orders to six industrial units in the Bellandur Lake catchment area. The board has identified 97 water-based units
Sewage water flows into the Kammasandra Lake at electronic City on Hosur Road in City. The sight of clearwater lakes is certainly a thing of the past for Bengaluru residents. In the absence of a sewage
Javadekar promises to consider restrictions on phosphates, a major component in detergents, to reduce frothing of lakes. Can a ban on phosphates in detergents be the saviour for the frothing Bellandur
Bengaluru: Ninety-seven industries polluting Bellandur Lake have been served closure notices by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB). The board began issuing notices even before the National
Hyderabad: Three more acres of the Ramammakunta lake has fallen prey to concretisation with a four star hotel of 13 floors being constructed on the buffer zone of the lake. Worth Rs 60 crore, this three
Hebbal lake, one of the prominent water bodies in the City, has remained neglected and dilapidated for the last eight months. The deplorable condition of the lake is because of the hundreds of Ganesha idols that were immersed in the kalyani (a pond which is a portion of the lake) during the Ganesha festival last September have not been cleared yet.
The Earth's lakes may take a devastating hit from climate change, researchers report in a new study. Rapidly warming waters in freshwater bodies, including several Great Lakes and many reservoirs, trigger
Europe's oldest lake is under threat from Mediterranean style-resorts and man-made sandy beaches, marine biologists have warned. Known as Europe’s Galapagos, Lake Ohrid in Macedonia is a Unesco Word
The Delhi high court scrapped on Wednesday a proposed Rs 1,275 crore residential project in Chandigarh on the grounds that it fell within the sensitive catchment area of the Sukhna lake. The project is
The world's lakes are rapidly warming, thanks to climate change. Scientists have taken a closer look at temperatures and found that the warmer weather is threatening freshwater supplies and ecosystems.
Climate change is rapidly warming lakes around the world, threatening freshwater supplies and ecosystems, new data has revealed. A new Nasa and National Science Foundation-funded study looked at lakes
Khartoum — The Minister of Minerals for Sudan, Ahmed El Sadeg El Karori, has acknowledged that Lake Nasser is heavily polluted. On Monday, he told Parliament that laboratory results proved that the lake,
Climate change is rapidly warming lakes around the world, threatening freshwater supplies and ecosystems, new data has revealed. A new Nasa and National Science Foundation-funded study looked at lakes
<p>Affidavit filed by the Mulanthuruthy Grama Panchayat, Ernakulam district, Kerala on pollution of Konothupuzha river which branches out as a tributary of the Thripunithura-Chambakkara Canal and joins
Environment protection groups, Save Bangalore Lakes Trust (SBLT) and Namma Bengaluru Foundation (NBF), have brought out a report on the encroachment of lakes in the City. The 209-page report, titled ‘Phase
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Subrata Bhattacharya Vs Directorate of Mines and Minerals & Others dated 06/09/2022.</p> <p>The NGT directed
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bhanwar Lal & Others Vs State of Rajasthan & Others dated 22/05/2020.</p> <p>The matter relates to large scale illegal minings being carried
Jaipur: If the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) orders are enforced by the state government, the monsoon of 2017 holds hope for the dying Sambhar Salt Lake. The central zonal bench of NGT has directed
After outrage over the highly polluted Bellandur lake in the city, the State government has finally decided to clean up the tank. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the city’s new Minister, K.J. George,
The Subramanyapura lake will be relegated to history if the government agencies and other stakeholders do not take measures, both immidiate and long-term, to stem the rot, said a report prepared by a firm
