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 …
If the Centre has its way, the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) - a key central body which monitors planning and execution of all schemes of Ganga rejuvenation in coordination with five states - will be converted into a commission under Parliament Act so that it can work more …
Both states asked to prepare plan to contain contamination Residents of 12 districts of Punjab and Haryana are consuming poisonous water as the groundwater there has been detected with arsenic levels beyond the permissible limit, the Union Ministry of Water Resources has said. The ministry has directed the two states …
Activists gathered along the banks of the Yamuna here to demand an early clean up of the river that is the lifeline to millions in northern India. Dozens of people offered special prayers on the river bank and sought the cleaning of the ghats and the demolition of illegal structures …
For the past three months, societies and residential clusters near Thakorevas and surrounding apartments in Paldi have been complaining of staggered polluted water supply. On Thursday societies like Suryakamal, Diamond, Sunrise and Al Hamar complained of polluted water supply. The water appears bright green — of algae contamination — and …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked Chief Ministers and representatives of Ganga Basin states to “create enough awareness to stop pollution” of the river in their respective areas. Chairing the fifth meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority here, Mr. Modi observed that the task of cleaning the …
Scientists have discovered that deep water marine fish living on the continental slopes at depths of 2,000 feet are more are suffering health problems due to human-caused pollution. Surface waters aren't the only regions being impacted by pollution in the ocean. Scientists have discovered that deep water marine fish living …
Just 17% of England's rivers are judged to be in good health, according to Environment Agency figures. This is down from 29% with a good ecological status in 2014. The analysis is shocking, say environmentalists. Problems are caused by over-abstraction and pollution from farms, run-off from roads and effluent from …
Waking up to the recent reports which highlighted how more than two-thirds of the sewage generated in 118 towns — located in the Ganga river basin — get discharged into the country's national river 'untreated', the Centre has asked five states to furnish their action plan to set up and …
Moving ahead with its plans to ensure compliance of the anti-pollution norms by polluting industries and municipal bodies located on the banks of Ganga by 2016, the Centre has asked municipalities and industrial units in five states through which the holy river passes to furnish action plan for sewage treatment …
BHOPAL: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the pollution control board to test the point sources of pollution from nullahs for second time. This was done after the petitioner challenged that the previous test didn't show true picture of water contamination. On Tuesday, applicant Subhash C Pandey yet again pointed …
Deep ocean fish are facing a host of health problems that may be due to man-made pollution, according to a new study. Even as far down as 2,000 feet to one mile beneath the surface, marine fish are suffering from liver pathologies, tumors and other conditions as harmful pollutants are …
The Mayor of Rio de Janeiro has admitted that the city's heavily polluted waterways will not be cleaned up in time for next year's sailing events at the Olympic Games. While bidding to host the 2016 Olympics, the Brazilian city promised a massive clean-up of the Guanabara Bay, which is …
The deadline for making online monitoring of various pollution-related parameters mandatory has been extended till June 30 from the earlier March 31 for 17 categories of hazardous waste-emitting industries. This has come as a relief to 16 such industrial units which fall under this ambit and have been in the …
Mathura: After staging a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, the "nirmal aur aviral" (clean and uninterrupted flow) campaigners are back in Braj. The leaders of the movement hope that the central government will soon issue a notification under the Environment Protection Act to release water into the river …
Yenagoa — The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth (ERA/FoEN) has raised the alarm that Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria has been denying host communities in the Niger Delta access to Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) reports indicting the company over oil spill incidents. The group, in a statement on …
Gold miners in the country have expressed concern on the improper disposal of mercury within the industry. Mercury is used in all gold mines in the country to sieve or attract 'gold dusts' from soil. However, some miners have expressed concern that after its use, mercury is improperly disposed of, …
Olympic sailing teams might notice something fishy in the water when they compete in next summer’s games in Rio de Janeiro -- that is, potentially thousands of dead fish, along with piles of trash and raw sewage. Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, the venue for next year’s Olympic sailing events, …
Government auditors say Tepco has wasted more than a third of the ¥190 billion in taxpayer money allocated for cleaning up Fukushima No. 1. A Board of Audit report describes various expensive machines and untested measures that ended in failure. It also says the cleanup work has been dominated by …
Communities impacted by the 2011 Shell's Bonga offshore oil spill in Bayelsa and Delta States have commenced verification of claims by people impacted by the incident. George Ibobra, the immediate past Chairman of the Community Development Committee Chairman of Koluama 2 in Southern Ijaw Local Government of Bayelsa, told journalists …
Scientists are looking for -- and finding -- little bits of plastic in a lot of places lately: ice cores, deep sea sediments, coral reefs, crab gills, the digestive system of mussels, even German beer. Now, new research suggests they need not actually be searching for the man-made material to …
