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 …
So, after the plastic ban, the State Environment Department is considering a ban on chemical fertilizers,” said Kadam at an event organized by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). CLOSE on the heels of a ban on various plastic items in the state, Maharashtra Environment Minister Ramdas Kadam on Wednesday said …
Ranchi: Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board has decided to crack down on hotels and restaurants operating without its no-objection certificate to stop unabated poisoning of the city's air and water. In a public notice issued in vernacular dailies on Saturday, the board has asked 200-odd establishments to obtain the clearance …
Soil pollution poses a worrisome threat to agricultural productivity, food safety, and human health, but far too little is known about the scale and severity of that threat, warns a new FAO report released at the start of a global symposium. Industrialization, war, mining and the intensification of agriculture have …
TRICHY: PMK leader and MP Anbumani Ramadoss on Saturday insisted on the closure of oil wells in Thanjavur district following the leakage of crude oil from the pipeline and spillover in the farmland at Kathiramangalam. “The miseries caused to the people by the leakage of crude oil from the pipelines …
Tuticorin: Activists and environmentalists fear that pollution which has been the scourge of Tuticorin city for decades may have taken a turn for the worse. Recently, Tuticorin stood 21st in a list of 94 polluted cities in the country identified by Central Pollution Control Board based on a five-year study …
Soil N is an essential element for plant growth, but its mineral forms are subject to loss to the environment by leaching and gaseous emissions. Despite its importance for the soil-plant system, factors controlling soil mineral N concentrations over large spatial scales are not well understood. We used NH4+ and …
JAGATSINGHPUR: A good number of illegal brick kilns have come up in the district and environmentalists have opined that these brick kilns are responsible for rise in temperature in the region as well as land degradation and air pollution.Sources said thousands of brick kilns are operating in Kujang, Erasama, Tirtol, …
HYDERABAD: It was way back in 2013 that the then government had announced that polluting industries in the city would be shifted out of the city to areas beyond the Outer Ring Road (ORR). More than five years have elapsed but not much has changed: neither have the polluting industries …
The number of pollution sources in China has increased by more than half in eight years, the environment ministry said on Thursday as it embarks on a nationwide survey to determine the damage done by more than 30 years of untrammelled growth. The announcement from the newly minted Ministry of …
Although Kerala has been a top rubber grower in India, the plant was first introduced in the Northeast by the regional forest department in the 1960s Rubber plantations, which have been vigorously promoted in north-east India in the name of increasing forest cover and rehabilitation of tribespeople, have got environmentalists …
Situation alarming, says green tribunal | Orders inspection The residents of a village in Uttarakhand have written a letter to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) alleging the discharge of untreated chemical effluents in drains by industries located in the vicinity. The villagers have contended there has been a complete violation …
Farmers, food supply-chain entities, and policymakers need a simple but robust indicator to demonstrate progress toward reducing nitrogen pollution associated with food production. We show that nitrogen balance—the difference between nitrogen inputs and nitrogen outputs in an agricultural production system—is a robust measure of nitrogen losses that is simple to …
Phthalate esters (PAEs) are commonly detected in agricultural soils of China, which can post potential threats to human health. Understanding their sorption to soils is important in assessing their transport and bioavailability in environment. Limited research focuses on the influence of soil organic carbon (SOC) on PAEs adsorption to soils …
This paper reveals the magnitude of heavy metal contamination of soil and groundwater in and around an unauthorized e-waste recycling site in Delhi. Though unsafe and unorganized and with the e-waste handling now legally banned in Delhi, the informal sector is still actively involved in dismantling, extracting and disposing of …
The Contractor companies engaged by Northern Railway and National Highway Authority of India in Ramban district for developing railway track and Srinagar-Jammu highway are openly flouting norms with impunity by dumping chemical pollutants in river streams and rivulets, locals have alleged. They said the Pollution Control Board (PCB) which is …
NAIROBI: The United Nations Environment Assembly has passed 13 non-binding resolutions and three decisions to get the planet rid from pollutants, officials said on Thursday. On Wednesday for the first time at a UN Environment Assembly, environment ministers issued a declaration, saying nearly 200 nations would honour efforts to prevent, …
This landmark study published in Lancer finds that toxic air, water, soils and workplaces kill at least 9 millon people and cost trillions of dollars every year. Pollution kills more people in India than anywhere else in the world revealed the study. Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease …
The Department of Environment, Science and Technology has finally decided to undertake a study on assessing the impact of environmental pollution in the industrial areas on the human health and remedial measures. The action follows an in-depth report on the pollution in Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) and the emerging cancer cases which …
Teacher came to city to meet PM, apprise him of seriousness of issue. On October 2, when the government was celebrating the third anniversary of its dream project Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan, Madhusudan Biswas, a resident of 24 Parganas in West Bengal sat on an indefinite hungerstrike at Jantar Mantar in …
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has slapped a show cause notice on Vedanta Limited for the ash pond breach in Jharsuguda where it has an aluminium smelter and thermal power plant. It has sought to know why consent for the two units should not be withdrawn and …
