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 …
Chhath is also about cleanliness and caring for rivers ponds, lakes and canals where the prayers are offered. But with rapid urbanisation and rising pollution, families are forced to complete the rituals at artificial water bodies. On Thursday evening, Nitish Parashar, 28, stood near a large vessel full of water …
THE introduction of a pollution levy payable by companies operating in Namibia's coastal waters are among the priorities of the newly established National Marine Pollution Contingency Plan (NMPCP) management committee. The committee was inaugurated at Walvis Bay yesterday by works and transport minister Alpheus !Naruseb, who was represented by deputy …
Durban - An environmental disaster is unfolding along the KwaZulu-Natal coastline, warn environmentalists, as billions of plastic pellets are being washed up on the beaches. And while they are not dangerous to humans at the moment, the pellets - called nurdles - are also heading out to sea. Scientists at …
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has pledged its continued support in the area of capacity building for greater efficiency and service delivery, just as it unveiled modern pollution and environmental equipment to tackle oil spills. The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, at the passing out …
Plastic pollution, overfishing, global warming and increased acidification from burning fossil fuels means oceans are increasingly hostile to marine life If the outlook for marine life was already looking bleak – torrents of plastic that can suffocate and starve fish, overfishing, diverse forms of human pollution that create dead zones, …
NBI Executive Director Engineer Innocent Ntabana, said here yesterday the crisis in the river that flows northward through Lake Victoria in Tanzania and drains into the Mediterranean Sea is likely to be felt more after 2021, five years from now. “Increasing population, pressure for energy, droughts, demand for food security …
Artificial sweeteners pop up in products all over the grocery store, from diet soda to yogurt, to help people keep calories down and pounds off. It turns out their popularity has given artificial sweeteners—sucralose in particular—a purpose beyond helping with weight or carb control. Sucralose, and to some extent acesulfame, …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Kasala Malla Reddy and Others VS State of Andhra Pradesh & Others dated 24/10/2017 regarding pollution caused by the industrial units especially the pharmaceutical industries in Patancheru and Bollaram, Medak District of Telangana. The Highlights of the …
All sea life will be affected because carbon dioxide emissions from modern society are making the oceans more acidic, a major new report will say. The eight-year study from more than 250 scientists finds that infant sea creatures will be especially harmed. This means the number of baby cod growing …
The Lancet study concluded that pollution is now the largest environmental cause of disease and death in the world today — three times more those from HIV-AIDS, TB and malaria put together. India has topped the list of countries with pollution-related deaths in 2015, with 2.51 million people dying prematurely …
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 …
Centre, U.P., Uttarakhand to respond The National Green Tribunal has directed the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh and the Uttarakhand governments to file affidavits stating what steps they have taken to comply with its directions to clean the Ganga in the stretch between Gomukh and Unnao. The green panel, in …
In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6 and 25 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, namely:- These rules may be called the Environment (Protection) Amendment Rules, 2017. They shall …
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 …
Human activities, in particular agricultural production, interfere with natural cycles of nutrient elements, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), leading to growing concerns about water quality degradation related to excessive nutrient loadings. Increases in agricultural production in response to population growth and wealth generation further increase risks associated with nutrient pollution. …
The green panel had directed the Delhi government and other authorities to submit a status report on the condition of river Yamuna after the immersion of idols. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Wednesday told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it has removed around 80 tonnes of debris dumped on …
Bijnor: As part of the Namami Gange project, a team from Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) collected samples of river Chhoiya water. It is one of the dozen tributaries of the Ganga in Bijnor district. According to CSE officials, the aim is to study the toxic levels of all …
Ambegaon, Indapur and Daund among ‘most affected’ areas in the district ACCORDING TO a recent analysis of water quality, conducted by the Groundwater Survey and Development Agency (GSDA), the quality of drinking water obtained from the natural groundwater reserves in Pune district is among the poorest in the state. With …
PMK youth wing leader and Dharmapuri MP Anbumani Ramadoss has called for the resignation of Tamil Nadu environment minister K C Karuppannan, over the latter's comments on pollution in Noyyal river. In a statement on Saturday, Anbumani referred to news reports on the minister's comment that foam in the river …
