Mobile towers are harmless, says declassified CPCB report

It states that there is no substantive or convincing evidence of cell phone radiation’s biological effects that can harm a person’s health

To authorities, it's smelly and you know it, still you don't act on it

India has been dragging its feet over abating odour pollution. Does it lack in infrastructure, or will?

Yamuna clean-up project - Inaction plan

the March 31, 2003, deadline set by the Supreme Court (sc) for cleaning the 22-kilometre Delhi stretch of Yamuna river has come and gone. Yet the …

Well-oiled racket

Two incidents of illegal handling of waste oil have come to light recently, underscoring the fact that trade in the hazardous product continues …

Healing festering wounds

An action plan is ready to decontaminate UCILÔÇÖs plant site in Bhopal. It just needs to be implemented

Instant quality check of rivers

Electronic sensors to monitor pollutants in Yamuna, Ganga

Deteriorating air quality in Delhi and Dhaka, as smog envelops both capitals

Bangladesh has been urged by the World Bank to clean up the air by coordinating more closely with its south Asian neighbours

At full blast

Sharp rise in air and noise pollution levels again during Diwali

Realities unmasked

A look at the prescribed guidelines for PCB appointments reveals glaring loopholes

All in a day's work

Grand Hyatt leads by example on wastewater recycling

GENSET EMISSION

Come 2005

Or, why mohfw should be worried

MNRE should get approval for revised policy on repowering wind power projects: Standing Committee

The MNRE strategy paper outlines the bidding trajectory of 37 GW capacity till 2030 for offshore wind projects  

CPCB’s new guidelines for India’s stone crusher sector a welcome step

CPCB guidelines in alignment with recommendations made by non-profit Centre for Science and Environment

Toxic air: Graded Response Action Plan announced for Kolkata, other Bengal cities

West Bengal government’s GRAP is neither graded nor forecasting-based like Delhi’s, say experts   

Hazards of using fertilisers in Punjab

Studies have pegged consumption of phosphatic fertilizers in Punjab at ten times higher than the national average

Centre amends e-waste management rules 2016 yet again

Even the producers or importers, who have recently started their operations, have been given a collection target which is lesser than the targets …

Engineer the end

By 2025, the number of End of Life Vehicles in India is estimated to reach over 21 million. Here's how we can manage them efficiently and effectively

West Bengal discharges over 50% waste water untreated into Ganga

Report of CPCB calls for making sewage treatment plants functional, tackling waste discharged through drains to reduce pollution load on river

Diwali this year caused more air pollution, but made less noise

Particulate matter exceeded standard almost ten times; NO2 and S02 levels also registered increase

Diwali 2021: Delhites can expect a smoggy and hazy morning November 5

Delhi-NCR proves pollution monitors wrong with spike in PM2.5 and PM10

India’s sewage treatment plants treat only a third of the sewage generated daily: CPCB

Reuse of treated sewage can decrease the water demand from aquatic sources

Ganga equally polluted in pre- and post-monsoon phase: CPCB report

Prepared in June this year, the report was declassified recently

DTE Investigation: CPCB failed to recover fines from Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Reliance, Adani in last 30 years

Central Pollution Control Board says has no information on court cases for which it has to collect environmental fines

New rules put larger onus on small, medium poultry farms

Till now, small poultry farms in India were exempt from environmental laws but this will change now