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 …
The newly refurbished ‘Graphic Arts studio’ of Jawahar Kala Kendra (JKK) is holding a workshop to teach non-toxic techniques of developing cyanotype prints. The workshop conducted by Kavita Shah of Chaap Foundation is teaching the students an alternative process which is environment friendly. Shah said that by using alternative processes …
Greenland’s vast ice sheet has long been home to Project Iceworm, an abandoned Cold War-era U.S. Army initiative designed to deploy ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads against the Soviet Union. When the project was shuttered in 1967, military planners expected that any materials left on site would be safely frozen …
(KRPC), 16km away from Kaduna, capital of Kaduna State in North-west Nigeria. It is a sparsely populated multilingual community. Juji Barde village, too, is situated behind the company not far from Rido. KRPC operates as a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), refining crude oil into high quality …
Chandigarh: The incinerator at the PGIMER had long outlived its lifespan of 10 years. The 19-year-old incinerator therefore keeps conking out thereby piling up the biomedical waste. In the absence of an incinerator with GMCH Sector 32, which generates 400-500 kg of biomedical waste every day, the PGIMER often refuses …
The UK government is “flouting” its duty to protect the lives and health of its citizens from illegal and dangerous levels of air pollution, according to the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights related to toxic waste. Baskut Tuncak issued his warning after a fact-finding mission to the UK in …
This is the second time that the AIIMS panel has failed to submit its report despite direction from the NGT. An AIIMS panel, formed by the Centre after a chemical spill at the Tughlaqabad depot here, was directed by the National Green Tribunal on Wednesday to submit its report on …
The research finds a correlation to the higher incidence of infant mortality when mothers and babies live within five kilometers of the roads, likely because of exposure to toxic materials used, transported and dumped during their construction, according to economists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Trinity College …
Bhopal:Upper Lake considered to be the lifeline of the state capital is dying a slow death. A large part of the city's sewage, chemical and toxic waste finds its way into the millennia old water body, degrading its quality. Each day, the Upper Lake which is source of drinking water …
Gambia’s first Community Wildlife Reserve in the village of Gunjur, 35 kilometers from Banjul is facing depletion as its stream has turned red and wildlife found dead. Villagers from the community were shocked by the discovery last week and suspected a nearby Chinese fish processing company, Golden Lead Factory of …
People living along the coast in the South African city of Durban have long complained about the effects of toxic industrial pollution. But they are now stepping up their criticism, accusing oil and chemical factories near their homes of being behind frequent cases of cancer, asthma and other illnesses. Al …
Durban - About 650 truckloads of contaminated liquid from the Shongweni landfill is being moved to another site, probably in Joburg, as it was part of the cause of the noxious smell in the Upper Highway and could not be pumped into the sea. The liquid, called leachate, drains from …
Vietnam's prime minister halted work at a $10.6 billion steel plant on concern over its environmental impact, in an effort to prevent another "Formosa incident", local media reported, citing a government statement. Steel maker Hoa Sen Group, the plant's investor, was not immediately available for comments. The company announced plans …
Germany is to support Ghana with €25 million euros to tackle its growing electronic waste menace. The fund is to support the establishment of structures for the effective collection and recycling of e-waste, which had become an environment and health threat in the country over the last decade. The Ambassador …
Environment Minister said that government has decided to take remedial measures including the safe disposal of identified quantity of hazardous waste of the erstwhile Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) in Bhopal. The government has decided to dispose of safely the hazardous waste from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, the …
The contractor hired to carry out the final round of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s groundwater survey at the new Toyosu wholesale food market said Saturday it was told to use a method that deviated from previous survey practices. The ninth round of the two-year-long survey, conducted between late November and …
Toxic waste has been dumped in a farming town in southeast Nigeria's restive oil-producing Delta region, a state government official and a community leader said on Wednesday. The community leader, Collins Edema, president of the National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, said the waste was dangerous to both agricultural produce and …
The oil-producing community of Koko in Warri North Local Council of Delta State has alleged that a company operating in the area (name withheld) was sand-filling the toxic dumpsite it exposed a day ago apparently to cover up the evidence. Community leaders Tony Ede, Eyitemi Brown-Dibofun, and Benson O. Asamat …
Durban – EnviroServ, the waste disposal company accused of emitting “toxic fumes” from its Shongweni landfill, will be prosecuted on criminal charges. “A decision to prosecute has been made. Arrangements are under way for the accused to make their first appearance in court,” Advocate Moipone Noko of the Director of …
The red streak that appeared in the waters around the Vũng Áng economic zone in the central province of Hà Tĩnh – the same area still reeling from the consequences of the Formosa toxic spill – was confirmed to have been caused by algal bloom. This is the conclusion according …
The World’s Worst Pollution Problems 2016: The Toxics Beneath Our Feet updates the top ten point-source polluting industries based on each source’s global burden of disease. Pollution and the diseases that it causes have become a massive and extremely costly global problem. But at the same time as our understanding …
