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 monsoon is about to come to Varanasi, India's ancient city on the Ganges, putting an end to the daily swimming lessons held in the river after school. The children will miss the cooling water, but some experts say it is so polluted the lessons should never be allowed at …
A federal plan to lower thresholds for warning the public about contaminated beach water is drawing protests from state officials in the Great Lakes region and along the ocean coasts who say the revisions could unnecessarily scare away swimmers. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's draft plan drew a flood of …
Compliance statement on behalf of Central Pollution Control Board, Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board and National Ganga River Basin Authority with regard to Krishan Kant Singh & Others Vs National Ganga River Basin Authority & Others. In compliance of the order passed by the National Green Tribunal dated 06/05/2014 a …
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board is holding weekly discussions with the traffic police and the transport department on how to penalise those causing vehicular noise pollution, the KSPCB chairman Vaman Acharya said on Monday. DH photo The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board is holding weekly discussions with the traffic …
Fisheries and livestock minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque Tuesday said the government will take measures to stop excessive use of chemicals in fish ponds and wetlands, on public health concerns. ‘Various chemicals are being used in fish farming. Some of them are good but some are very harmful. Law will be …
After more than a year of delays, BP has paid the first 100 of about 10,000 medical claims filed by Gulf Coast residents and cleanup workers affected by the 2010 oil spill. Payments to cover the costs of treatment for skin and respiratory ailments and other human-health impacts from the …
Companies hewing marble once favoured by Michelangelo from the mountains of northern Tuscany have halted work for two days in a clash between the interests of industry and art and those of the environment and countryside. The lockout, in which workers are barred from the quarries run by 150 firms …
Plastic junk is floating widely on the world's oceans, but there's less of it than expected, a study says. Such ocean pollution has drawn attention in recent years because of its potential harm to fish and other wildlife. The new work drew on results from an around-the-world cruise by a …
Indigenous people call off action following meeting with ministers over their ‘failure’ to aid to contaminated communities Peruvian ministers have met with representatives of hundreds of indigenous people from the country’s Amazon rainforest after they threatened to go on hunger strike in protest at what they say is government failure …
Mountaintop mining (MTM) affects chemical, physical, and hydrological properties of receiving streams, but the long-term consequences for fish-assemblage structure and function are poorly understood. We sampled stream fish assemblages using electrofishing techniques in MTM exposure sites and reference sites within the Guyandotte River basin, USA, during 2010–2011. We calculated indices …
Delhi with fast-growing rate of urbanisation is the second most water-stressed cities in the world according to this new research published in Global Environmental Change Journal which has mapped 500 large cities to determine how global urbanisation is affecting water supplies. Kolkata (6), Chennai (18), Bangalore (19) and Hyderabad (20) …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Sureshbhai Keshavbhai Waghvankar & Ors. Vs. State of Gujarat & Ors. dated 01/07/2014 regarding immersion of idols and Tazias in the waterbodies. Previous Orders
The expansion of coal mining in the Hunter Valley and the increase in the number, area and depth of surface mines has changed the landscape as well as the economic and social character of the region. Given the extent of new mining still proposed for the Valley, the impact of …
MORIGAON (Assam): A large number of fish were reported dead due to water pollution of three major rivers — Kolong, Kopili and Kiling — in Morigaon district, causing concern among environmentalists. According to information received by the revenue department, arsenic poisoning from the ground water was suspected to have mixed …
The constructions carried in Sonamarg, the Meadow of Gold, which lies between Kolhoi Glacier and Machoi Glacier, are on without carrying an Environment Impact Study. According to official sources, a land mafia at work in Ganderbal district’s famous hill station, Sonamarg, is undertaking haphazard constructions in the ecologically-sensitive tourist destination …
Of the 867 water contamination complaints received in the first five months (January to May) of the current year by the BMC, 79 per cent — the highest — has been registered from the city. While the civic body has received 685 complaints from the island city, 127 has been …
The National Board of Revenue has taken an initiative to prepare a list of polluting industries for imposing and collecting newly introduced green tax, officials said. The list will be prepared with the help of Department of Environment of the environment and forest ministry, they said. DoE has already been …
Amit Mendelssohn The project to restore the Kishon River has been frozen due to the Water Authority commissioner’s refusal to accept professional committee recommendations that would allow for the discharge of purified Kishon water back to the river, the Environmental Protection Ministry said on Sunday. For its part, the Water …
When Palestinians in the Gaza Strip seek some relief from the grind of life in an enclave plagued by conflict and hardship, they usually need to look no further than their sandy beaches. But this summer access to the cooling waters of the Mediterranean is gradually being closed off to …
Officers within the organisation were worried the Great Keppel Island eco-tourism resort could harm water quality and coral The Great Barrier Reef marine park authority identified serious reef health concerns related to a large marina development it later approved, according to the ABC. The marina is part of a $600m …
