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 …
Exporting e-waste to Asia worked out 10 times cheaper than processing it in within these countries." Much of the 40 million tonnes of electronic waste produced around the world — old smartphones, TVs, laptops and obsolete kitchen appliances — finds its way illegally to Asia and Africa every year, says …
Passes resolution in gram sabha meeting; submits petition to district administration A village panchayat in the district has called for the closure of a factory, which it accuses of polluting the environment and emitting toxic fumes. The Machakavundampalayam Panchayat passed the resolution during a gram sabha meeting accusing the battery-processing …
The Haryana Urban Development Authority has blamed the MCG for the pollution of the Yamuna due to discharge of untreated sewage water via the Badshapur drain. The authority has sent a notice to the MCG following lab test results (a copy of which is with TOI) revealing that the sewage …
A large numbers of fish were reported dead in the Surry and Beas near the bordering village of Kiri Afghana on the Hoshiarpur-Gurdaspur border. Dead fish could be seen floating over water in large numbers. Officials of the Fisheries Department investigating the matter claimed that the discharge of untreated toxic …
Various symptoms exhibited by residents of Ambapada and Chereshwar in Chembur, including skin and eye irritation, breathlessness, choking sensation in the chest and frequent sneezing, match the listed health hazards of the chemical toluene diisocyanate whose presence has been recorded in the air in the suburb, a report by the …
The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has published a new guide to the environmental impacts of urban areas authored by IIED's David Satterthwaite. The publication, entitled 'Urban poverty, urban pollution and environmental management', summarises what is known about the environmental impacts of urban areas – with a particular focus …
A group of youngsters are running an e-waste awareness drive in the city by visiting schools and holding street plays at major hangouts. They claimed that Rajasthan has not a single dumping yard for e-waste which is causing problem in scientifically disposing this e-waste which has its ill effects on …
Patna: BMW, this word brings out the picture of a high-end lurxury car. But today, this also means biomedical wastes, which can cost one's life. The wastes generated from hospitals like syringes, drug bottles, removed plaster and human anatomical parts are termed biomedical wastes (BMW), which are being disposed of …
The National Green Tribunal has directed anti-pollution authorities in Delhi to immediately shut down factories in the capital that continue to pollute the Yamuna river with toxic effluents. It has ordered the Delhi Pollution Control Committee to ensure that stainless steel pickling units at Delhi's Wazirpur do not operate if …
Questions have been raised about the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board’s virtual clean chit to the tanneries in a report last year after 10 workers died on Friday at a tannery in Ranipet in Vellore district; documents indicate that the Board was giving a long rope to the tanneries and …
Almost 3 million gallons of potentially toxic saltwater leaked from a western North Dakota pipeline into a creek that feeds the Missouri River, the largest spill of its kind in the state's history. The leak, from a four-inch saltwater pipeline operated by Summit Midstream Partners LP approximately 15 miles north …
IWAKI, FUKUSHIMA PREF. – An irradiated, abandoned town adjacent to the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has agreed to let the central government build a dump there which will house contaminated waste for as long as three decades, the town’s mayor said Tuesday. Cleanup workers will toss radiation-tainted soil, …
Kurion Inc. in California said it’s developing a robotic arm to go where humans can’t and repair water leaks in the Japan nuclear power plant crippled by an earthquake and tsunami almost four years ago. The technology will be used at the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima plant starting …
Environment campaigners are calling for curbs on mercury emissions from human cremations as part of pollution controls that EU authorities will debate this month. Increased cremation as shortage of land makes burial expensive has coincided with a rise in emissions of the toxic metal from fillings in teeth. An average …
RAJSHAHI: Existing surface water resources especially the Baranai River flowing through the northern part of the city is being heavily polluted and contaminated with disposal of wastes and toxic chemicals, scientists and researchers here said. The crop fields surrounding the river are also being contaminated with wastes and the farmers …
There are significant questions over where radioactive material from the 2011 nuclear accident will be permanently stored after plans to build repositories have encountered heavy opposition from candidate municipalities. The central government plans to move the material from existing temporary storage sites in the 12 prefectures where it was collected …
MAYBE you replaced old electronics over the holidays or you’re just sweeping out the old and ushering in the New Year. Either way, you’ll need to do something with your old devices. For everyone’s sake, including Mother Nature’s, try to get rid of your old technology the right way. Recycling …
This 32-page report describes 16 years of failure by Thailand’s Pollution Control Department and public health authorities to prevent further exposure to lead among the village’s ethnic Karen residents. A 12-minute video accompanying the report highlights serious health and environmental damage caused by a now-defunct lead processing factory, as well …
Thirty years after India’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, contamination owing to the leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide pesticide factory continues to affect residents. The leak of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, killed thousands of people in …
For years Union Carb-ide had been dumping chemicals and wastes around the factory sites and these have leaked into the soil and contaminated the drinking water. Even after 30 years of the world’s worst industrial tragedy in which Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) gas and other chemicals leaked from the Union Carbide …
