Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
China has announced its first pilot projects to treat metal pollution in soil and prevent farmland from further contamination, but critics say the government's overall efforts are underfunded and inefficient. The Ministry of Finance will subsidize soil pollution prevention and treatment in three cities in the central province of Hunan, …
Residents of Sukhdev Vihar, Okhla, have on Saturday written to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) against Delhi’s Jindal’s Timarpur-Okhla waste management incinerator stating that the plant is yet again spewing toxic ash. Earlier the group had written to the National Human Rights Commission …
Better Ludhiana: water pollution Being an industrial hub, Ludhiana is flooded with various kinds of industries, which have provided bread and butter to lakhs of people not only from Punjab but also from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. At the same time, certain industries have proven to be the bane of …
With Holi just around the corner, doctors have begun warning people against chemical-laden colours available in the market. These colours, which contain chemicals such as mica and copper sulphite, can damage the eyes and skin. Skin specialists have suggested using herbal colours made using turmeric, tesu and sandal instead. “Most …
Concern Over High Mercury Content, Absence Of Recycling Spent CFLs may be polluting the environment silently and causing a toxic hazard for kabadiwalas who handle such discarded bulbs. Despite a huge spike in the demand (about 30% in the last five years) for these energy-saving lamps, a recent survey by …
With the groundwater in the area fully contaminated from the toxic industrial waste, the land has gone to waste and paddy fields have been deserted. Kollam: Nearly 300 families living within a radius of 500 metres of a metals industry in Kerala's Kollam district have been suffering for almost a …
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501), operator of the crisis-ridden Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, said it found a new leak near the tanks holding contaminated water at the disaster site. The utility, which serves 29 million customers in the Tokyo metropolitan area, is collecting soil where the leak occurred but …
The waste material dredged out from Hussainsagar and dumped at the abandoned stone quarries in Gajularamaram have been found to be toxic and a serious health hazard. This startling revelation came to light recently after the AP Pollution Control Board conducted tests on samples collected from the dumping site. Apart …
AGRA: Around 100 nilgais have died in Saurai, Agra district, after allegedly drinking the highly contaminated water of the Karvan river. Panic-stricken villagers, who said the water has turned poisonous due to effluents being discharged by factories in Hathras and Aligarh, added that their heath and crops, too, have been …
The sight of millions of litres of toxic effluents and domestic sewage being let into the Sabarmati at Vasna barrage will wrench any heart-especially the way the river is choked to nothing more than a toxic gutter. Following a month-long campaign by TOI-'My City, My River'-the high court allowed a …
The U.N. nuclear watchdog has urged Japan to consider “controlled discharges” into the sea of contaminated water used to cool the crippled reactors at Fukushima. The proposal was among recommendations outlined in a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency after its latest inspection of the worst nuclear accident in …
The authorities have failed to shift most of the dyeing units operating from residential and non-conforming areas to the special industrial zone in HUDA Sector 29 Part-II here. The zone was created a few years ago. More that 525 of nearly 750 dyeing units are still operating from residential and …
US investigators have been taking samples at a New Mexico underground nuclear waste site where airborne radiation was detected, though authorities stressed they had found no contamination. Officials monitoring the possible radiation leak said there was no danger to people or the environment at the the Department of Energy’s Waste …
Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (Bapa) organised the discussion at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity Environmentalists have expressed concerns over the establishment of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant alleging that the project was taken without conducting proper assessment of risk management. At a discussion yesterday, they also urged the government to take proper precautions to …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday formed a high-level expert panel to determine whether the Ganga was being polluted by industrial effluents that are discharged into it through the Simbhaoli Drain near Ghaziabad. The two-member expert panel comprises member-secretaries of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the UP …
Putrid water is being released by drainages With water from the Yamuna becoming increasingly contaminated and unfit for human consumption in Agra and Mathura, the Uttar Pradesh Government has served notice on the Delhi government to ensure that toxic water is not released into the river by factories. The State …
Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha on disposal of toxic waste of Union Carbide factory at Bhopal, Srikant Kumar Jena, the minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers stated that the matter of providing oversight and support to all remediation actions, including disposal of toxic waste lying in around the …
A stormwater pipe under an unlined coal ash pond at a shuttered plant in Eden, N.C., burst Sunday afternoon — draining tens of thousands of tons of coal ash into the Dan River. Duke Energy, which owns the Dan River Steam Station, retired since 2012, estimates that 50,000 to 82,000 …
While the nations around the world were busy celebrating World Wetlands Day (WWD) on Sunday to mark the date of the adoption of Convention on Wetlands, February 2, 1971 in Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea; the wetlands of Sindh continued to suffer with acute …
Thanneerpandhal residents’ earlier petitions remain unattended The public of Thanneerpandhal village in Gudiyatham taluk met the Vellore Collector R. Nanthagopal during the weekly public grievances redressal day camp at the Collectorate here on Monday and submitted to him a memorandum urging him to take immediate steps to close an aluminium …
