AGRA: In over 300 schools spread across nine districts of western Uttar Pradesh, the quality of water was found to be very poor, with high levels of very toxic chemicals. A Delhi-based environmentalist, after making these findingsy, has written to ch more....

Hong Kong cleaned up almost 90 tonnes of palm oil from Lamma Island after a collision between two ships in the Pearl River Delta estuary spilledthe substance ashore, Reuters reported. The accident is believed to have taken place on August 3. At leas more....

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today imposed an interim ban on use of non-biodegradable plastic bags which are less than 50 microns in the entire national capital. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also announced an env more....

The Government must review Goods and Services Tax levied on scraps, especially plastic, paper, cardboard and glass. The imposition of a steep tax of 18 per cent on all kinds of scrap material is flummoxing and difficult to comprehend for both custome more....

Governor P. Sathasivam has noted that the greening drive was a fight against pollution, which was claiming millions of lives in the world. He was addressing the students of the Lakshmibai National college of Physical Education after planting sapling more....

JAMMU, Aug 9: Division Bench of the State High Court comprising Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sanjeev Kumar today constituted high powered committee headed by Divisional Commissioner to present pollution of River Tawi. The committee will be compri more....

Nagpur: In yet another development in the Pench poaching racket, 12 tiger whiskers were seized from a fishermen on late Tuesday night while three more persons from Kolitmara in West Pench were arrested, taking the total number of arrested persons to more....

Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Harsh Vardhan said on Tuesday that seventeen States and union territories have already imposed complete ban on use of polythene bags. "In the country, 17 States / Union Territories have imp more....

Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Harsh Vardhan said on Tuesday that seventeen States and union territories have already imposed complete ban on use of polythene bags. "In the country, 17 States / Union Territories have imp more....

Allowing trade in rhino horns in South Africa will undercut enforcement efforts in rest of Africa, China, Vietnam and other Asian countries. It is a major setback in tackling trafficking in wildlife, a renowned wildlife advocate has said. "We see more....

Only 23 of 107 star tortoises that were transferred to the Byculla Zoo for rehabilitation two years ago have survived. On Tuesday, the anti-poaching unit of the Thane forest department transported the surviving 23 star tortoises, protected under s more....

Allowing trade in rhino horns in South Africa will undercut enforcement efforts in rest of Africa, China, Vietnam and other Asian countries. It is a major setback in tackling trafficking in wildlife, a renowned wildlife advocate has said. "We see th more....

Hyderabad: In a landmark achievement under afforestation programme, Telangana accounted for a staggering 26 per cent of the total saplings planted in the entire country under the 20-point programmne during 2016-17, Union Minister for Environment, For more....

KOLKATA: The city that had been the first to combat sound pollution two decades ago, has emerged as the country's noise capital with silence zones falling prey to the deafening cacophony of honking. A study submitted by West Bengal Pollution Contr more....

PATNA: Six hundred and odd medicare facilities in the state, including private and government hospitals and nursing homes, have come under the Bihar State Pollution Control Board's (BSPCB) scanner for their alleged failure to dispose of biomedical wa more....

PimpriChinchwad: The PimpriChinchwad municipal commissioner on Wednesday exhorted Ganesh mandals and citizens to adhere to the guidelines of the Bombay high court and the state environment department to celebrate Ganeshotsav in an eco-friendly manner more....

Out of 445 rivers monitored by the Centre, 275 have polluted stretches with Maharashtra topping the chart with the maximum number, Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Tuesday. It said that the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) m more....

THANE : With an aim to save the remaining 23 Star Tortoises, the Thane Forest Department decided to handover them to a wildlife NGO RAWW on Tuesday night for better care. In November 2015, the Thane forest department's anti-poaching cell had seize more....

The Goa State Pollution Control Board will soon conduct detailed air quality study through IIT-Bombay, to find out source of air pollution in Vasco. Dust from road segments with high traffic volumes, emissions from heavy-duty vehicles, and coal dust more....

The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday sought a status report from six riparian states on the pollution levels in the Yamuna and its tributaries. It directed the state and central pollution control boards to come up with a common action plan to find more....

GHAZIABAD: The UP pollution board has issued notices to 18 factories across the city for flouting norms resulting in contamination of ground water. The action comes a day after Allahabad high court pulled up UP principal secretary (environment) on th more....

UDAIPUR: In a bid to curb the increasing level of pollution especially in the industrial areas, the Pollution Control Board has introduced recently web-enabled monitoring of pollution by factories. Currently, PCB has installed sensors at 20 industrie more....

CHANDIGARH: In a rare gesture of its kind, the Industries and Environment Minister Vipul Goel on Wednesday convinced a woman sarpanch of village Chautala to lift her veil (ghunghat). This happened during minister's tour to Sirsa district to promote t more....

Vijayawada: Commissioner of police D Gautam Sawang appealed to the people to use eco-friendly clay Ganesh idols to check environmental pollution. The Commissioner on Wednesday inaugurated the clay idol making unit on BRTS Road and enquired about the more....

An appalling number of cigarette butts litter our sidewalks. An estimated 1.3 million tons of them are produced in a year worldwide. It takes years for them to decompose, and even then the toxic chemical load continues to pollute water bodies. Dispos more....

Enter the narrow and congested lanes of Seelampur in North-East Delhi, and you are greeted by the a strong, pungent smell of burnt aluminium and metal. It’s almost unbearable for “outsiders” to breathe in this area but there’s no sign of discomfort o more....

Researchers have found that cigarette butts can be safely disposed of by sealing them up inside roads and paths, a move that could not only solve a huge waste problem but also be useful in reducing the urban heat island effect common in cities. Tril more....

Hong Kong stepped up efforts on Wednesday to clean up a massive palm oil spill, with authorities scooping up more than 90 tonnes of foul-smelling, styrofoam-like clumps in one of the worst environmental disasters to blight the territory’s waters. De more....