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 …
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has launched a series of short-term plans as well as long-term surveys to curb contamination in critically polluted regions of Maharashtra, including Dombivali and Navi Mumbai. This follows a study by the Central government which calculated a Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) for 88 …
The antibiotic industry boomed during the 1950s. The wonder drugs were fed to human beings and animals alike. They slowly permeated the environment—factory effluents seeped into groundwater; manure and sewage contaminated the soil. Microbes adapted to the changing environment by mutating, quickly. They entered the food chain and ended in …
The Union government has released a pollution index to help it decide where new industrial units are to be allowed and which areas need cleaning urgently. The Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index ranks 88 areas housing polluting industries in India using a new methodology (seeÀ An index calculated). “The index is …
On december 31¤ tribals of Jaspur and Dugdha villages in Jharkhand gathered in front of the local sponge iron factory and shouted slogans. They were angry because waste from the factory had turned their drinking water source black and had reduced their paddy yield by half. “An official from the …
Following a Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) report about high levels of pollution in Mangalore, the State government has sent a team of scientists and officials to probe matters of air, land and water pollution in the area. Environment Minister Krishna J Palemar and the environment Department have now raised …
Remediation of arsenic contaminated soil was studied in this work, experiments were carried out out using simulated soil contaminated arsenic treated with an extractant solution comprising of citric acid, oxalic acid, sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate. Experiments were carried out by treating the soil with the extractant solution.
It is 25 years of the Bhopal gas disaster—the night when chemicals spewed out of the Union Carbide factory to kill and maim thousands over generations. The question is if we have learnt from the disaster—learnt how to handle chemical accidents; to dispose of industrial toxic waste; to manage crucial …
V NarayanaMurthi A CPCB report says the quality of air, land and underground water of the district is alarmingly polluted VELLORE has been rated among the top 10 `alarmingly polluted clusters' in the country. It has become an environmental time bomb, ticking away with the rise in industrial pollution here. …
25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal reveals this latest study by Centre for Science & Environment. This study based on CSE's Pollution Monitoring Laboratory tests found that water and soil in & around the Union Carbide factory are loaded with pesticides. To know more …
The authorities seem to have run out of ideas how to arrest the rampant discharge of sewage waters in the paddy fields behind the District Hospital project at Ambaji
25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal reveals this study by Centre for Science & Environment. This study based on CSE's Pollution Monitoring Laboratory tests found that water and soil in & around the Union Carbide factory are loaded with pesticides. See Also: Factsheets: The …
For more than 25 years, the Union Carbide (UCIL) factory has been contaminating the land and water of Bhopal. Latest tests show that groundwater in areas even three km away from the factory contains almost 40 times more pesticides than Indian standards.
The presence of hydrocarbons, dense non-aqueous phase liquids, heavy metals and radioactive wastes in soil and ground water represents a serious threat to health and safety. Detecting and delineating these contaminants in the subsurface is a challenging task. Traditional site characterization methods involving drilling and sampling (soil, groundwater, and soil …
THE Thamizhaga Vivasayigal Sangam has demanded the closure of all dyeing units along the Noyyal, Cauvery and Bavani rivers and the Kalingarayan canal to protect farm lands from pollution. Sangam's state president Dr M R Sivasamy told reporters on Tuesday that the sangam would stage a demonstration in front of …
China has been accepting vast quantities of discarded televisions, computers, printers, and other equipment from abroad since the early 1990s. E-waste processing, a burgeoning cabin industry in coastal parts of China, may end up dwarfing other examples of contamination, scientists argued at a symposium. The roster of substances liberated during …
Yagnesh Mehta TNN Surat: Come Sundays and there is not enough parking space on the approach to beaches of South Gujarat. But this Sunday the story is altogether different. Tourists preferred to stay away from Tithal, Umargam and Umarsadi beaches in Valsad and Devka beach in Daman due to the …
Four days after holding an impressive rally at the historic Lohia Maidan, the Goenchea Xetkarancho Ekvott has sought the immediate response of Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat and Goa governor to save agricultural lands and the lives of the future generations. The Chief Minister was told not to blindly copy the …
Contaminated lands, blighted by fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, could be cleaned up in a clever way: by growing biofuels. Belarus, the country affected by much of the fallout, is planning to use the crops to suck up the radioactive strontium and caesium and make the soil fit to …
Letter to Dow Chemical Company from Congress of the United States to immediately take steps towards remediation and redress of the chemical disaster in Bhopal, India.
The bacterial diversity in a tropical soil experimentally polluted with crude oil during a 57 days bioremediation was investigated in five 1 m2 plots using total culturable hydrocarbon utilizing bacteria, heterotrophic bacteria and gas chromatographic analyses. Four out of the five experimental plots received each 4 L of Bonny light …
