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 …
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment and Forest Prakash Javadekar on Sunday said the Ministry will take a decision within two weeks on whether or not to lift the moratorium on some industrial clusters in the state. Three industrial clusters – Vatva, Vapi and Ankleshwar – have been …
Parents of a five-year-old boy in Gandhi Camp area of Jalandhar city have alleged that their son died after falling ill due to drinking contaminated water supplied from the pipes of municipal corporation. Many others have also taken ill after drinking contaminated water. Illegal connections are cited as the reason …
The World Population Day is an annual event observed on July 11 every year seeking to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. The date of observance was inspired by that of Five Billion Day …
Rapid urbanisation and human encroachment– especially in the Kathmandu Valley– have left Nepal's rivers highly polluted. "I remember people bathing and washing clothes in Bagmati River as late as 1985 because the river was very clean," Nuwakot district native Bishnuhari Sapkota told Khabar South Asia. "The way it was polluted …
Fish are rising to the surface of the water to breathe in the canal of Tulatoli area at Sitakunda as the oil spill from a derailed train Wednesday contaminated the water. Md Abdul Motaleb, a school goer, was seen standing beside the canal with a handful of fish yesterday morning. …
China's Supreme People's Court will establish a special tribunal for handling major cases related to air, water and soil pollution, the body announced. The special tribunal will “try to hear environmental cases without regard to where those incidents occur, in order to avoid administrative interference from local governments,” said Supreme …
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on Thursday released a report on China's water environment, naming the Haihe River and Lake Taihu along the Yangtze River as the most polluted waters in the country. Using a five point assessment system, the Haihe River, which flows through Tianjin, scored five points, the worst …
The amount of money needed to “offset” the impact of a dredging project on the Great Barrier Reef could be as much as $1bn – which is $998m more than the project developer has suggested. Documents obtained under freedom of information reveal huge uncertainty over the investment needed to maintain …
The government yesterday asked the administration to take stern action against river grabbing and pollution and not to bow to any pressure from politicians. In 2009, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had made commitments to save the country's rivers and her government undertook multiple projects involving several hundred crores of taka. …
A Bill further to amend the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. This Act may be called the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment Act, 2014.
Untreated sewage, open defecation from project sites and townships, dissolved solids and faecal coliforms (bacteria) have emerged as the largest polluters contributing to the deterioration of the Sutlej river water quality, a recent study has revealed. The study has also raised a question mark on the proposed Rs 515-crore lift …
Union Min To Gauge Level Of Pollution In River Gomti which supplies around 300 MLD of raw water to Aishbagh and about 120 MLD to Balaganj waterworks daily fulfilling water needs of more than half of Lucknow’s population is polluted to a dangerous extent by continuous sewage discharge. On recommendations …
This is the first administrative decision by NDA govt after it projected the cleaning of the Ganges as a priority The division overseeing the cleaning of rivers under the ministry of environment and forests will soon be shifted to the river development and Ganga rejuvenation department, water resources ministry, headed …
The furnace oil that spilled from the derailed wagons of Bangladesh Railways travelled to arable lands, canals and ponds of nearby areas, jeopardising the eco-system of the area, leaving a negative impact on fisheries and the fertility of the land. On Wednesday, rail communication between Chittagong and the rest of …
The Environment Protection Authority's management of contaminated sites in NSW has been criticised as inadequate, inconsistent and lacking transparency in decision making. A report by NSW Auditor-General Grant Hehir also found the environmental regulator had no systematic processes for prioritising contaminated sites and there was a backlog of almost 800 …
Oil that matches the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been found in the bodies of sickened fish, according to a team of Florida scientists who studied the oil's chemical composition. "We matched up the oil in the livers and flesh with Deepwater Horizon like a …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Bhartiya Kisan Sangh V/s State of Rajasthan & Ors. dated 10/07/2014 regarding minor canals being polluted, Rajasthan.
Litter is now found in even the most remote areas of the oceans, say scientists trying to understand how much rubbish is lying at the bottom of Europe's seas. The new study, published in Plos One, shows for the first time that there seems to be no area of the …
Gadkari says govt may provide around 30% of cost Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious plan for “aviral aur nirmal (continuous and clean)” Ganga may cost a Rs 80,000 crore, Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari said here on Monday. The government may provide around 30 per …
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal agency has fined the company that spilled chemicals into West Virginia's largest water supply $11,000 for a pair of violations. The Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Freedom Industries $7,000 for keeping storage tanks containing crude MCHM behind a diked wall that was …
