China faces about 1.6 million premature deaths a year as a result of air pollution, the U.S.-based Health Effects Institute (HEI) said in a report, based on data going back to 1990, published on Tuesday. China cut concentrations of hazardous particl more....

Dhemaji: The Arunachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board's recent order to close down scores of hotels, stone crushers and industries operating in the state has brought uncertainty in the lives of several employees and owners. The board has dire more....

SHILLONG:The state government on Monday said it is keeping an eye on the pollution of Wahumkhrah and Umshyrpi rivers, which flow through the city, and is coming up with mechanisms to check it. Responding to a question by Khun Hynniewtrep National Aw more....

Patna: Gandhi Maidan had enough plastic waste after Sunday's meet to be used in road construction. Amazed? Under the Meghalaya Livelihoods and Access to Markets Projects (Megha-Lamp), 1 km of road was built in Meghalaya by mixing plastic waste with more....

The Environment Ministry has notified the amended rules on plastic waste management that prescribe a central system for the registration of producers and importers. The ministry has notified the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2018, whic more....

NEW DELHI: The Centre has amended the Plastic Waste Management Rules — omitting provisions of “explicit pricing of carry bags” which required vendors — who sold commodities in a carry bag, to register with their respective urban local bodies and pay more....

New Delhi: Excessive riverbed mining in Haridwar has rendered the quality of groundwater “very poor” and unsuitable for drinking, according to researchers from Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya. They have also warned that adverse health effects of drink more....

The Maharashtra government has imposed a total ban on the produce, possession, and use of plastic bags with effect from June 2018. And have come out with a heavy fine to be levied if plastic bags are even possessed in one’s custody (this will certain more....

OSLO (Reuters) - International experts have not been able to find what caused a cloud of radioactive pollution that spread over Europe last year and prompted fears of a nuclear leak, Swedish authorities said on Monday. Monitoring stations recorded h more....

TAMPA: Researchers in the US and Britain have accidentally engineered an enzyme which eats plastic and may eventually help solve the growing problem of plastic pollution, a study said Monday. More than eight million tons of plastic are dumped into t more....

Mumbai: A doctor and a trustee of a charitable trust, which runs an ambulance service, has moved the city civil and sessions court seeking to quash an order by a magistrate, who issued them notices because a resident lodged a criminal complaint again more....

PANAJI: The shopping footprint is largely contributing to Goa’s waste management crisis due to the indiscriminate habit of using cheap one-time plastic bags. If shoppers adopt a two-bag carrying practice—a cloth and a plastic one—things could be diff more....

Multi-layered plastics (MLP), the shiny cover in which many ready-to-eat snacks and chips, as well as mouth-fresheners and tobacco products are being sold, may no longer add to environmental pollution soon. The ministry of environment, on Monday, no more....

From the ice-covered Arctic to the tropical waters of the Pacific, all of Earth’s oceans share one thing in common: plastic pollution. Discarded plastic bags, cups, and bottles make their way into the sea. Today, it seems that no part of the ocean i more....

The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change has notified the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2018. The amended Rules lay down that the phasing out of Multilayered Plastic (MLP) is now applicable to MLP, which are “non-recycla more....

The Environment Ministry has notified the amended rules on plastic waste management that prescribe a central system for the registration of producers and importers. The ministry has notified the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2018, whic more....

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2018. The amended Rules lay down that the phasing out of Multilayered Plastic (MLP) is now applicable to MLP, which are non-recyclable, more....

Worli resident files criminal complaint alleging an ambulance passes through silent zone with siren Mumbai: A doctor and a trustee of a charitable trust, which runs an ambulance service, has moved the city civil and sessions court seeking to quash a more....

HARIDWAR: Days after a video clip went viral in which a man was seen alleging that sewers and drains were directly emptied into the Ganga, residents now say that even though the problem has been persisting since so long, no action has been taken agai more....