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 …
RIO DE JANEIRO – The Samarco mine in the southeastern city of Mariana, where last November a huge toxic waste spill caused Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, has had a new spill although no victims have been reported, the company announced Wednesday. The new landslide is of smaller proportions than the …
Toxic watchdog and environmental group EcoWaste Coalition has expressed concern over the mushrooming of political posters and tarpaulins all over the country which it said is adding to the nation’s garbage and toxic woes. The uncontrolled display of tarpaulins in public places to boost the candidacy of political aspirants even …
Researchers have discovered a compound that can reverse environmental mercury (a heavy metal) poisoning by converting it from a highly toxic, volatile and soluble organic form (as a pollutant) into a comparatively safe, inert and stable form that renders it harmless and insoluble. The finding is published in an international …
BHUBANESWAR: A day after carcasses of 18 peacocks were found at Madhupur village under Khurda forest range, a team, comprising veterinary surgeons and forest officials, on Wednesday visited the spot to collect circumstantial evidence and any suspected source of poisoning in the area. "Though we found no source of poisoning, …
BHOPAL: Thirty-one-years on, after the world's worst industrial disaster killed hundreds and maimed thousands, decision on disposal of some 330 MT of toxic waste awaits a green signal from the Supreme Court. Expectations of a clean-up, come in the backdrop of testing of actual toxic waste from UCIL site and …
Three decades after the Bhopal gas lead killed a few thousand people overnight, the struggle continues for its survivors. A number of issues concerning the survivors of the disaster, termed the biggest industrial accident in history, seemed close to resolution this year, but none was resolved.
NGOs working for the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy today slammed the central government for its failure to take up the UN-aided assessment of current toxic contamination at and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory, the site of world's worst industrial disaster. Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Toxics Link Vs. Union of India & Others dated 01/12/2015 regarding environment friendly disposal of CFL and recovery of mercury.
Mud from a dam that burst at an iron ore mine in Brazil earlier this month, killing 12 people and polluting an important river, is toxic, the United Nations' human rights agency said on Wednesday. The statement contradicts claims by Samarco, the mine operator at the site of the rupture, …
TThe National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday empowered the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) to shut down unauthorised auto workshops on Gagan Vihar road and challan any vehicles parked there. The NGT’s directions come on a petition filed by Aviation Employees Cooperative House Building Society Ltd., which approached the Tribunal …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday granted the Centre three more weeks to formulate a reply regarding its stand on declaring cigarette and bidi butts “toxic waste”. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) …
Groundwater in south Delhi, Gurgaon and Faridabad risks contamination by decaying municipal waste being stashed at a landfill site in the Aravalli hill area of Gurgaon. A petition filed before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) by Gurgaon residents Vivek Kamboj and Amit Chaudhery on Tuesday claimed that the Bandhwari waste …
The tanneries in Kasur in Pakistan, where the world-famous handmade “Kasuri jutti” is made, is spreading pollution across the border in Punjab. The tanneries are dumping tonnes of hazardous chemicals into a Sutlej tributary that flows into India. This is causing serious health problems for the residents of villages in …
AHMEDABAD: Dead fish floating in Matoda village panchayat lake triggered panic among locals. The panchayat had awarded the lake on contract for fish farming activity. In an application of complaint submitted with Changodar police station of Ahmedabad district, Kanu Chunara, the fish farm contractor has alleged that toxic discharge from …
SYDNEY, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Rubbish and debris entering into the marine environment is become a more high profile issue after Australian researchers found more than half of the world's sea turtles have swallowed plastic or other rubbish. Researchers from the University of Queensland examined threats to six marine turtle …
Tepco on Monday discharged into the ocean filtered groundwater taken from wells around the damaged reactor buildings at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in an effort to curb the buildup of toxic water. The project has been touted as one of Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s key measures in tackling …
The trial incineration report, accessed by The Indian Express, shows that emission parameters were monitored during the five-day disposal process which started August 13 afternoon and ended early morning of August. Around 346 tonnes of hazardous waste has been lying in the Union Carbide factory since Dec 1984. A decade …
Special Operation Group (SOG) of Ahmedabad district police on Sunday evening arrested eight persons for dumping suspected industrial waste into open manholes near Moraiya village of Ahmedabad district and Narmada canal near Vishalpur village. A woman worker Neelam Parmar had died on Saturday while three others had to be rushed …
AHMEDABAD: In yet another incident of illegal dumping of toxic waste in manholes, a woman died while three others were affected on Saturday in Danilimda. Earlier a similar incident in February at Ramol had left a woman and her two minor daughters dead. Ramol police arrested five persons including the …
Glencore has yet to finish erecting signs warning of contaminated river life near a Northern Territory mine more than a year after the miner and the state government became aware of elevated levels of heavy metals. Government documents have revealed inconsistencies in the information given to the public about potential …
