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 district court on Saturday interrogated Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) regional officer S Fule, while hearing a criminal case related to the pollution of Godavari filed by activist Rajesh Pandit. The case has been filed under section 431 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against former municipal commissioner Sanjay …
The 40 crore people who benefit from the Ganga have to be made contributors in its rejuvenation and governance of the water body made transparent if the river is to be saved, activists said on the eve of a mega meeting called by the government on Monday. The meeting, Ganga …
Postponed for 13th Five-Year Plan (2017-21) after missing two deadlines The cleaning of the Tawi river might take years as the state has now decided to wait for the 13th Five-Year Plan (2017-21) to divert highly polluting drains that merge with the river. Sources said it could affect the completion …
With reckless approach and poor implementation of revitalisation projects virtually turning the Yamuna river into a channel for urban sewerage and untreated industrial effluents, observers believe that only a concerted and multilayered effort can help in restoration of the river. The Yamuna, which is spread across 48 km from Palla …
Greenpeace activists chained themselves to the gates of a Chevron shale gas exploration well in eastern Romania on Monday, blocking access to the site and urging the leftist government to ban fracking. Romania could potentially hold 51 trillion cubic feet of shale gas, which would cover domestic demand for more …
Contamination of water by NMDC iron ore mine’s refuse has affected livelihoods Budhram, a farmer of Kadampal village in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, owns five acres of agricultural land and has been monocropping paddy for the past three years. But falling yields have given him cause to worry about the future …
Aiming to revive a riverbed that has been used for decades as an illegal waste dump, the Dead Sea Drainage Authority has embarked upon a restoration plan for Nahal Hava in Mitzpe Ramon, the authority announced on Sunday. Working in conjunction with the Open Spaces Protection Fund and the Environmental …
LAHORE: A foreign consultancy firm has declared retaining water in the Ravi during winters as one of the biggest challenges to the launch and accomplishment of the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project, Dawn has learnt. The firm (Meinhardt), hired by the government a couple of months back to conduct a …
Six months after a chemical spill fouled a vital West Virginia water supply, a fight is brewing over the tons of waste it left behind. The small city of Hurricane, W.Va., and surrounding Putnam County, want two subsidiaries of Waste Management Inc. WM +0.54% that operate a local landfill to …
Bengal has more than 27 highly polluted areas, including one in the heart of the city. An area in Picnic Garden, where used batteries are dumped, has been listed among the worst-affected places of the world in terms of lead pollution. Former Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh said this on …
Appalachian streams polluted with mountaintop mining runoff have less than half as many fish species as non-impacted streams, according to new U.S. Geological Survey research. The research, announced July 1, examined fish diversity and abundance in the Guyandotte River basin of West Virginia, documenting elevated selenium and electrical conductivity levels …
The poor environmental practices of the former Soviet Union and other eastern European states over many decades is well documented. While these were most glaring for industrial plants and mines, they also spread to agriculture. One of the lesser-known disasters came from a lack of systems thinking in irrigation. To …
A major study into the potential of fracking to contaminate drinking water with methane has been published. The British Geological Survey and the Environment Agency have mapped where key aquifers in England and Wales coincide with locations of shale. The research reveals this occurs under nearly half of the area …
New Zealand's rivers and lakes were given the country's first ever national standards for water quality on Thursday -- although critics said the standards would allow some waterways to get worse. Water quality has been a source of constant debate in recent years as intensification of dairy farming and urban …
A separate ministry on rivers with special focus on Ganga notwithstanding, rejuvenating the national river will not be an easy task for the Modi government. Among the many contributors, the tanneries of Kanpur alone add 50 mld of waste to the river everyday. Of this, only 9 mld waste is …
Hanumangarh Zila Parishad files petition before National Green Tribunal Concerned over high pollution levels in the Indira Gandhi Canal, the Hanumangarh Zila Parishad has filed a petition before the National Green Tribunal seeking directions to ensure that the Punjab government takes immediate steps in checking inflow of pollutants into Sutlej …
VARANASI: Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi use the expertise of Sulabh International, a pioneer organization working in the field of biogas generation from human excreta, to save Ganga from sewage pollution? Sulabh has offered its services in cleaning the Ganga with the help of its indigenously developed technology. "It is …
In its first step to clean the Ganga, the National Democratic Alliance government on Tuesday cleared three sewage-treatment plants in Bihar and West Bengal. Together, the plants will entail investment of Rs 290 crore. Two sewage plants in Patna and one sewage integration and treatment plant at Budge Budge, West …
A textile printing company in Shangyu district of Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, was fined 20 million yuan ($3.2 million) on Monday for illegally discharging pollutants into nearby rivers. The fine was the highest in the province for environmental pollution. A total of 11 people involved in the case were sentenced to …
New federal research using data from southern West Virginia show streams affected by mountaintop removal mining have fewer fish species and fish overall than other streams. Research released Tuesday from the U.S. Geological Survey is the latest in a series of reports from federal agencies arguing mountaintop removal mining practices …
