Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Pretoria – Geologist Tshiamo Legoale has made history by being the first South African to be crowned the FameLab International Champion for a project which researched a method of using wheat to harvest gold from mine dumps. “Not only am I the first South African… but I am the first …
Despite facing a major problem of water contamination, the Rajasthan government failed to use allocated budget for redressal of water quality related problems under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP). As per the figures of NRDWP for the financial year 2016-17, the public health engineering department (PHED) was allocated …
Environ, a group of environmental management for sustainable development, has started an awareness programme on environmental hazards of electronic waste under the ‘Digital India Initiative’. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in partnership with NASSCOM Foundation, MAIT and CEAMA has embarked upon an awareness programme on environmental hazards of …
Interior Antarctica is among the most remote places on Earth and was thought to be beyond the reach of human impacts when Amundsen and Scott raced to the South Pole in 1911. Here we show detailed measurements from an extensive array of 16 ice cores quantifying substantial toxic heavy metal …
Society of Pollution and Environmental Conservation Scientists (SPECS) yesterday announced that the waters of the Suswa river in Dehradun were highly toxic and harmful for both human use and wildlife. Addressing a press conference in Dehradun, SPECS secretary Dr Brij Mohan Sharma said the Suswa river of Dehradun had become …
HYDERABAD: Is the government doing enough to protect water bodies from metal contamination or even to detect said pollution? A study conducted by researchers from two Japanese and another two Indian institutions as part of which water samples were collected from 48 sites of Ennore, Adyar, Cooum, Periyar, and Vrishabhavathi …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Contaminated Drinking Water, 06/04/2017. State-wise number of habitations affected by chemical contamination including heavy metals in rural drinking water sources including Punjab as reported by the States into Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of the Ministry as on 31th March, 2017 is at Annexure.
Kadoma — Studies have revealed high traces of mercury metal in women's breast milk and fish in the gold mining areas of Kadoma and Chakari, exposing to risk the lives of children and people in surrounding communities. Mercury exposure affects foetal neurological development and is linked to lower fertility, brain …
The parliamentary Committee on Budget has promised to set aside funds in the 2017-18 financial year to resolve the problem of high fluoride content in water consumed in Naivasha. This emerged when members of the committee held a public hearing in ACK Hall, Naivasha, where the issue dominated discussion. Residents …
A study conducted by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) shows that artisans at the Suame Magazine in Kumasi – reputed to be Africa’s largest metal fabrication enclave, are predisposed to serious health hazards. Many of them have been found to have high concentration of heavy metals …
Herbarium specimens may provide a record of past environmental conditions, including heavy metal pollution. To explore this potential, we compared concentrations of copper, lead, and zinc in historical and new collections from four sites in Rhode Island, USA. Original Source
Recent comparative product testing by city-based Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC), found traces of pesticides and heavy metals in six supposedly-organic brands of rice. Three brands of rice sold as organic had traces of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, and these were above the safe limit in two brands. All seven …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Chemical Contamination in Drinking Water, 06/02/2017. As reported by the States into the Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of the Ministry as on 3 Feb 2017, the names of 100 districts belong to 13 States where high incidence of drinking water contamination found is …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Contamination of Water, 07/02/2017. Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) carries out groundwater quality assessment and monitoring across the country. Based on such assessment, locations in excess of permissible limits, as prescribed by Bureau of Indian Standards, have been identified which are given in the …
One third of what Bengaluru now is actually the catchment area of Vrishabhavathi river, which flows southwest for about 50 km before joining Arkavathi river. And the city empties about one third -- roughly five million litres daily --- of the waste water it generates into the waterbody, unmindful of …
Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) Sponsored Short Course on Reshaping Agriculture and Nutrition Linkages for Food and Nutrition Security is being organized at ICAR - Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR - CRIDA), Hyderabad during 17-26, November 2016. This publication is an outcome of compilation of lecture notes/book …
This study is to collect the samples of true mangrove plant, associated mangrove plants, water and sediments from Ennore Mangrove Ecosystem and the samples are analyzed for heavy metals accumulation.
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Nav Yuvak Ajay Ekta Samiti & Others Vs. Hindustan Copper Limited & Others dated 06/12/2016 regarding groundwater pollution in Balaghat due to mining activities. The joint inspection report of MoEF, CPCB and MPPCB with regard to …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Toxic Elements in Soft Drinks, 29/11/2016. Samples of food items are picked up for testing and analysis by the State/UT Food Safety Departments from time to time. Separate data about samples of soft drinks having been tested/found not conforming to specified standards, has not …
