Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
JODHPUR: Union Textile and Commerce & Industry minister Anand Sharma on Saturday, while expressing concern over the closed textile units, announced to set up a high level committee to look into the damages caused by the textile industry to the local environment and ecology at Jodhpur, Barmer and Pali. Headed …
A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday to force the Obama administration to finalize new rules regulating the containment and disposal of coal ash, a power plant byproduct activists say threatens public health. Earthjustice, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Integrity Project, and several other groups want the …
The spectre of Fukushima continues to haunt the world, forcing governments in most parts of the globe to rethink their plans to tap this controversial source of energy. But it is in India that the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl has had its most serious fallout, with public protests …
For the residents of AMCO Layout at Kodigehalli, it’s a double whammy. They not only face acute water shortage, but also risk contracting water-borne diseases from contaminated borewell water. Like the case of Kiran Kumar, whose 10-month-old child has been diagnosed with typhoid. “We do not receive Cauvery water at …
AHMEDABAD: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has come down hard on the state government over water pollution. Denting the green image of Gujarat, CAG, in its 2011-12 'civil' report, claimed that there is an "upward trend" in the incidence of water-borne diseases due to heavily polluted water sources. It …
The present work seeks to assess the spatial distribution and level of fluoride in the groundwater of different blocks of Bankura district, West Bengal. This is the first concerted attempt to highlight the vicious presence of fluoride in the sub-surface environment of Bankura and its gradual ingress in tube well …
The present study has been carried out to assess groundwater quality in parts of Hindon–Yamuna interfluve region of western Uttar Pradesh. Fifty-five groundwater samples were collected from hand pumps in post-monsoon 2005 and pre-monsoon 2006 period, respectively, covering an area of about 1,345 km2. Physical and chemical parameters of groundwater …
HC takes cognizance of pathetic condition of water bodies in State Shillong: Reacting strongly to the pathetic state of the water bodies in Meghalaya, the Shillong Bench of the Gauhati High Court has directed the State Government to provide details of the steps taken by it to monitor, control and …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Union Ministry for Environment & Forests, the Central Pollution Control Board and the Delhi Jal Boad on a petition by a social activist alleging that the release of effluents from the Capital's sewage treatment plants into water bodies was polluting …
Residents of Rajagopalnagar in Peenya Industrial Area are forced to drink water, from a borewell, with high levels of chromium in the absence of an alternative. Not potable: A resident of Rajagopalnagar shows water drawn from a public tap in the area that is green in colour, due to chromium …
Water pollution from agriculture is costing billions of dollars a year in developed countries and is expected to increase in China and India as farmers race to increase food production, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said. “Pollution from farm pesticides and fertilizers is often diffuse, making it hard …
Some energy companies, state regulators, academics and environmentalists are reaching consensus that natural-gas drilling has led to several incidents of water pollution—but not because of fracking. The energy officials and some environmentalists agree that poorly built wells are to blame for some cases of water contamination. In those cases, they …
Drilling at Poland's first shale gas exploration well using the controversial technique known as fracking has not harmed the environment, according to a government study published on Friday. Hydraulic cracking, or fracking, performed at a site in northern Poland operated by 3Legs Resources did not pollute groundwater or the atmosphere, …
The fact that ground water in Malwa, a southern area of Punjab, has traces of uranium in its ground water was established even in the past. A recent report presented by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) to the Punjab and Haryana high court has re-established this fact. The high …
A team of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board personnel on Wednesday removed nine illegal dyeing units that were polluting River Cauvery near Pallipalayam in Tiruchengode Taluk. District Environment Engineer K. Gokuladas who headed the drive, said that the units were evicted based on complaints received from residents of those localities …
Rag pickers often set fire to the accumulated garbage Smoke and stink from the Corporation's dump yard in Erumapalayam in the city continues to be a major problem for the residents around the area. Residents complain of health issues like eye dryness and lung problems and say that the smoke …
Arsenic contamination has been detected in tubewell waters in seven wards in Chittagong City recently and it may take serious turn if any preventive steps are not taken immediately. This was disclosed by Bangladesh Environmental Journalist Forum (BEJF) at a seminar organised at South Bakalia Ward Office with Councilor Yeachin …
Synergy between technology and public policy is essential for enhanced productivity in agriculture and aquaculture to meet the food and nutritional needs of the growing population, said M.S. Swaminathan, chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation. Inaugurating an aquatic health testing facility at the Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA) here on …
Ambur, Vaniyambadi and Pernambut areas are reportedly bearing the brunt Farmers participating in a monthly grievance day meeting at the Collectorate here on Friday complained of pollution of groundwater in Ambur, Vaniyambadi and Pernambut areas on account of the discharge of treated and untreated tannery effluents with high TDS (total …
AT THE crack of dawn, the view from atop the 22-metre tall garbage heap in Bhalswa is oddly beautiful. As the pungent smell of methane wafts through the air, the sight of hundreds of ragpickers mechanically sorting through 2,200 tonnes of garbage may seem mesmerising. Pools of black water surrounding …
