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 amount of litter dumped on beaches across Britain has more than doubled in the last 15 years to its highest ever level, endangering the health of wildlife and humans, according to a survey on Wednesday. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said its beachwatch 2008 annual survey had found an …
Koppa, News Service: The waste produced during coffee pulping is very toxic and releasing this waste directly to the environment without processing it was a cause of concern for many planters. Mysore plantation in Koppa has become successful in setting up a coffee waste processing unit with the use of …
Kenya's huge and squalid slums don't have much of anything, except mountains of trash that fill rivers and muddy streets, breeding disease. Now Kenyan designers have built a cooker that uses the trash as fuel to feed the poor, provide hot water and destroy toxic waste, as well as curbing …
Chandigarh: The curious finding of uranium in the hair and bodies of mentally and physically challenged children in Faridkot has impelled the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to send an investigative team to Faridkot. S K Malhotra, DAE spokesperson in Mumbai, told TOI,
Faridkot: High levels of radioactive element in special children: Experts collect water samples After finding high levels of uranium in the hair samples of differently-abled children, experts have now sent water samples for testing to find the source of this radioactive element. Experts and doctors working at Baba Farid Centre …
Mumbai Several people living along the Waldhuni river bordering Kalyan and Ulhasnagar in the Thane district reportedly fell sick on Thursday morning due to invisible noxious fumes emanating from the river. Rukmini Municipal Hospital at Kalyan treated ten people from the slums of Ashok Nagar and Shivaji Nagar after they …
The death toll among ducks that landed on a toxic waste pond at Syncrude Canada Ltd's oil sands operation last spring was 1,606, more than three times higher than previously made public, Syncrude's chief executive said on Tuesday. Syncrude CEO Tom Katinas disclosed the final count after getting permission from …
KOCHI: Fish feed wastage and its impact on water-bodies are a major source of worry for the fisheries industry. The accumulation of waste leads to toxicity in farmed species. High quality protein is essential for shrimps to grow fast. They require 45 percent quality protein in the supplementary feed. This …
State Minister for Environment and Forest Mustafizur Rahman said the government is going to develop a strategy soon for sustainable waste management to keep the environment toxic-free.
AHMEDABAD: For many years now, owing to high cost of toxic waste treatment, hundreds of chemical industries surrounding city have been discharging their toxic waste illegally into city drainage system in areas like Vatva, Naroda, Odhav and Narol. Ideally these units should be sending their discharge to central effluent treatment …
Jamshedpur, March 8: Call it a Swiss solution to a clean, green state. Cement major ACC Limited has entered into a technical collaboration with Swiss giant Holcim to offer industrial units in the state a common hazardous waste management facility at its Jhinkpani plant in West Singhbhum district. Ulhas V. …
Enforcement and monitoring are the key to safety Having tsfds and guidelines in place does not mean the waste has been taken care of. As the beil accident showed, cpcb
India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough?India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough? A fire at Ankleshwar forced India to rethink how it handles hazardous waste. Drums carrying dangerous industrial sludge flew amid leaping flames and …
Compact fluorescent lamps have emerged as a viable option to sharply reduce the energy demand for lighting. They are now manufactured by the millions, and the production base is bound to expand as official agencies and State governments scale up plans to replace existing lamps with CFLs. Besides saving power, …
Satna: The population of one of nature's strongest scavenger --'vultures' -- is dwindling in Gidhhkoot mountain of Madhya Pradesh's Satna district in an alarming rate. The reason of this steep fall of the rare specie is contaminated meat. According to locals the vultures fed on live stock carcasses, which are …
