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 …
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) has taken an initiative to develop a proper sewerage system with a view to curbing pollution of Banani-Gulshan and Gulshan-Baridhara lakes. The decision was taken yesterday at a meeting attended by LGRD Adviser Anwarul Iqbal and Public Works Adviser Maj Gen (retd) Ghulam Quader. The meeting …
Mumbai, August 18 To encourage eco-friendly celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi in the city, the IIT Bombay (IIT-B) and Save Powai Lake Committee will launch its annual eco-friendly Ganesh idol-making workshop for schools from Saturday. The workshop
the mix of salt and freshwater at Everglades in Florida, us, makes it the only place on earth where alligators and crocodiles co-exist. It has a massive network of lakes, creeks, swamps and rivers
K. Venkateshwarlu HYDERABAD: All but reduced to cesspools, restoration of polluted, filth-ridden lakes, ponds and wells has always been a challenging, time-consuming and expensive process. Not anymore, as a novel German technique promises to make the clean-up process a little bit easy. A German group, Lavaris Lake, has come up …
Sasthamkotta Lake is Kerala's biggest fresh water lake. The lake is facing degradation due to anthropogenic activities such as directing human waste, soil erosion due to destruction of vegetation and dumping of waste from hotels and slaughterhouses. The water samples from different stations were analysed from a period March 2006 …
The Asia-Pacific marine resources are economically important to most countries. It is the centre for global mariculture. But, now, it has become a major cause of concern as this area is continuously being exposed to heavy pollution and increase in fish catch using destructive fishing techniques. The impact of aquatic …
Water quality of lake normall get contaminated every where by accumulaton of sediments, human waste, silt, organic matter, industrial waste but in India different type of religious activities (idol immersion) are taking place every year, to which other countries are not concerned. The water bodies selected for the study are …
To enable half yearly performance review of the programmes of the Ministry of Environment & Forests, the Planning Commission, Government of India, on 13th June 2008 constituted an Expert Team to visit three wetlands viz. Wular Lake in J&K;, Chilika Lake in Orissa and Vembanad Kol in Kerala, for assessing …
Batalagundu FISH worth Rs 12 lakh were found floating in a tank near Batalagundu in Dindigul district as the water was poisoned.Siruvankulam tank is situated near Thumbaipatti. Seven months ago, a group of 10 persons had taken the tank on lease and began rearing fish. On Thursday morning, the lessees …
Before it became a hi-tec city, Hyderabad was famously known as the city of lakes. There are over 532 water bodies in and around the state capital with Hussainsagar Lake being the most prominent one. However, rapid urbanisation in the past few decades has all but destroyed the water bodies …
Cameco, the world's largest uranium producer, has told the Canadian nuclear regulator that its refinery might have leaked uranium, arsenic and fluorides into Lake Ontario. A section of the Port Hope, Ontario, plant of Cameco, the world's largest uranium producer. The plant at Port Hope, Ontario, across the lake from …
A prolonged drought in China's Liaoning province has left 850,000 people short of drinking water and affected spring farming in many areas. According to the provincial drought relief headquarters, from January to mid-April, the region received 20 millimetres of rainfall, which is 73 per cent less than normal years. The …
privatization of lakes in Bangalore is a sore point. Environment Support Group, an ngo in Bangalore, filed a petition regarding this in the Karnataka High Court in January this year. "It's not just lakes but a question of handling public commons. Failure to manage the commons does not give the …
Kapla beel at Sarukshetri mouza in Barpeta district is the largest beel in Asom. This wetland filled with natural, geographical and historical resources and encompassing a huge area has the potential to be developed as a tourist destination or spot. But unfortunately this opportunity is lost amid a saga of …
The price of haphazard development is paid by residents of BHEL Nagar and Amman Nagar, who have endured a persistent water stagnation problem for over 10 years now. Well into the summer, buffaloes find a cool haven in the water and sewage stagnant inside the colony. "The water dries for …
Polluted, poisonous and immune to popular efforts to enforce a clean-up: Tai Lake is a metaphor for the state of China's politics The plain-clothes police are always there, watching Xu Jiehua. When she goes out, two of them follow by motorcycle. Sometimes an unmarked car joins them, tailing her closely …
SIDDHARTHA KRISHNAN AND PRIYADARSANAN DHARMA RAJAN God's own country is an epithet commonly used for Kerala. Boat races, idyllic waters, emerald green paddy fields, carelessly strewn banana plants attract tourists who laze on boat decks and survey the tranquil rural scenes. But they do not know that all is not …
Probe on Baikal pollution: The Russian prosecutor's office has launched an inquiry into a paper and pulp mill suspected of polluting Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater reserve. The mill, built in 1966, was illegally dumping waste in the lake and was breaking environmental norms in the area; there are …
In a "green" state, an environmental disaster looms FEW people visit the Salton Sea these days, though when the wind is in the right quarter tens of thousands can smell it. The shores of California's biggest lake are studded with dead fish and dilapidated mobile homes. Photographers occasionally use it …
