Effluent treatment plants must meet water quality norms by March 31: SC

Justice Kehar directs state governments to initiate criminal and civil proceedings against industrial units flouting norms

Green tribunal orders enquiry on Jodhpur industrial sludge

About 10,000 odd industries in and around the city are dumping waste in river tributary, alleges petition

'Developing countries are treated in a very unfair manner'

Bernarditas Muller, a seasoned member of the Philippines negotiating team, is among the rare few who call a spade a spade. Speaking to Indrajit …

Waste manager dumps it in river

Gujarat firm gets closure notice for stealthily disposing of untreated hazardous waste

Tannery convicted

Odisha mining scam: petition in SC seeks closure of illegal mines

As Shah Commission report gets tabled in Parliament, Delhi-based NGO, Common Cause, seeks Supreme Court's intervention for a macro environment …

No check on effluents

Unhappy Bani

March of real estate threatens one of the last patches of native Aravalli forest near Delhi

Spam in fishing net

Debt of emerging markets & developing economies rose by 178% from 2008-2022: Report

The Global South is staring at a debt crisis, but the “Common Framework” created to provide debt relief has serious shortcomings

Tirupur dyeing units told to close

Madras High Court orders shut down till zero discharge

Field science

States asked to clean up

No permits in high-polluted areas  

A walk through Mangar Bani, a sacred grove near Delhi

Village refuses to part with forest

People near Chennai plan protest against industrial estate

The future we do not want

World leaders attending Rio+20 did nothing to tackle the interlinked crises of economy and ecology, says Sunita Narain after attending the …

For a clean ganga

How Baddi pharma waste can make your medicines ineffective

The waste contains active ingredients used in antibiotics and may be contributing to the spread of antimicrobial resistance. It is time to …

He upheld human rights and dismissed PILs

WHO publishes zero-draft of pandemic treaty: Equity, IPR take centre stage

Many believe draft unlikely to survive in current form due to Big Pharma, particularly in EU

Holistic approach

Civil society and all government agencies are responsible for sustainable development

Act before vicious cycle sets in

Without a grazing policy the goat economy can go bust

Maharashtra’s common effluent treatment plants fail to meet standards

Latest weekly report of state pollution control board says only seven CETPs meet standards for treated effluent water

Industrial units in Vapi continue to flout pollution norms

Union environment ministry had lifted moratorium in the area after state pollution control board promised to improve the situation

Rio draft text revives common but differentiated responsibility

Calls for doing away with green protectionism through trade barriers while dealing with environmental matters