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 …
Children from Sheopur collecting water.Children from Sheopur collecting water. Bhopal: In the eye of storm for malnourishment deaths, Sheopur district's large number of malnourished children and their families are forced to drink contaminated water from nullahs. More than 50 per cent villagers in Karhal block, one of the worst malnourished …
Cuttack: In an effort to curb pollution of water bodies, the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) had dug up six temporary ponds for immersion of Ganesh idols. Awareness programmes were held to educate people about the Orissa High Court order which directed that temporary water bodies be used for l immersion …
On the overall assessment in the environment status report (ESR) of 2015-16, the environment performance index has slightly decreased in the PMC despite conservation efforts. THE Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) general body Monday approved the Environment Status Report (ESR) for 2016 with corporators urging the civic administration to work towards …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench has given two weeks to Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and other respondents to file rejoinders on the contradictory maps showing the contour line, blue line and floodplain of Ramnadi river. The tribunal was hearing a plea against illegal constructions and encroachments along the …
Hundreds of Vietnamese fishermen traveled to a small provincial court on Monday to sue one of the country's biggest investors for compensation over an accident at its $10.6-billion steel plant, activists and a court official said. Tens of millions of fish died in April, in one of Vietnam's biggest environmental …
Each cycle of a washing machine could release more than 700,000 microscopic plastic fibres into the environment, according to a study. Inside the lonely fight against the biggest environmental problem you've never heard of Read more A team at Plymouth University in the UK spent 12 months analysing what happened …
Agra: In an indication of the massive extent of pollution in rivers of the country, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in a report submitted to National Green Tribunal has said that 63% of all sewage flowing into rivers every day is untreated in urban centres. Out of 62,000 million …
ROURKELA: In a major relief to hotels and restaurants in Rourkela, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has reduced pollution compensation penalty, but directed the hotels to strictly adhere to air and water pollution norms. As many as 17 hotels in the city, along with others in rest of Odisha, had …
The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has decided to turn the heat on bakery units, which are allegedly causing water pollution in the city. At least 10 bakeries here have to apply for consent to establish and operate. The move comes with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) recently …
Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University have developed a device for the rapid analysis of liquids on the content of hazardous substances -- such as heavy metals. Polytechnicers use a method based on polymer optodes -- very small plastic matrices that can be made sensitive to specific substances by means of …
BILLINGS, MONTANA – Exxon Mobil Corp. has agreed to pay $12 million for environmental damages caused by a pipeline break that spilled 63,000 gallons (238,474 liters) of oil into Montana’s Yellowstone River and prompted a national debate over lax pipeline safety rules, officials said Wednesday. The payment is meant to …
A dozen more Philippine mines, mostly nickel projects, are in danger of being suspended in an ongoing environmental crackdown on the sector, an environment undersecretary said on Wednesday. The Southeast Asian nation, the world's top supplier of nickel ore, has already halted the operations of 10 mines, eight of them …
A week before Russia’s Daldykan river was turned red by a leak from a metals plant, the UN issued a warning as chilling as it was overlooked: 323 million people are at risk from life-threatening diseases caused by the pollution of rivers and lakes. Cholera, typhoid and other deadly pathogens …
ExxonMobil Corp. has agreed to pay $12 million to Montana and the U.S. government to restore natural resources damaged or destroyed by a pipeline rupture in 2011 that spilled oil into the Yellowstone River, according to a settlement proposed on Wednesday. ExxonMobil Pipeline Company's Silvertip pipeline burst July 1, 2011 …
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the U.S., which makes for a perky population -- but it also creates a lot of used grounds. Scientists now report in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering an innovative way to reduce this waste and help address another environmental …
This will help us tackle 22 drains responsible for 90% of pollution of river, says Uma Bharti The Union Cabinet has approved changes allowing the National Mission for Clean Ganga to fine those responsible for polluting the river. Earlier this power was vested solely with the Central Pollution Control Board. …
Residents complain of skin irritation. Hyderabad: A cocktail of chemical effluents and flood water inundated several colonies in the city following Tuesday night’s rain. But officials from the city’s pollution control body claim the rain water — that has entered homes — is still free of pollutants. A ‘chemical nala’ …
The Philippines will suspend more than 10 additional mines in an ongoing environmental crackdown on the sector but the announcement of who will be shut has been moved to Sept. 26, the minister in charge of mining said on Wednesday. Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Regina Lopez said more than …
BHUBANESWAR: The industries coming under green category may soon come under pollution watch if the state government implements the recently-revised categorization guidelines of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The green category industries are those which are less polluting. Two days ago, the state government wrote to the Odisha State …
Hundreds of volunteers on Saturday poured onto the Kenyan coast to collect trash as a way of celebrating this year's International Coastal Clean-up Day. Several officials from the US Embassy in Nairobi travelled to the Coast to take part in the exercise of clearing sea debris and marine pollutants, which …
