Unsound power project plan thrown out

IT WAS a fast-track venture that sought to get round procedures perfunctorily, even if this meant fudging environmental impact assessments (EIAs) …

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 …

"It is wiser for industry to invest in pollution control"

He was the archetypical activist-bureaucrat. For A N YELLAPPA REDDY, former special secretary to the government of Karnataka's department of …

The Method Behind The Madness

When the official system learns to loot the official treasury, it also targets the natural estate, the biggest property of the modern state. Good …

Gentle on critical pollution

After declaring 43 industrial areas in India as critically polluted and imposing a moratorium on their expansion, the Union Ministry of …

New York mayor announces plans to make city green

Supreme Court bans sale of firecrackers in Delhi, NCR

The licences of existing firecrackers sellers will be suspended and the government will not issue new licences

Noise pollution violations: New fines proposed by CPCB step in right direction

New set of fines range between Rs 1,000 and Rs 1 lakh; cover confiscation of noise producing equipment

Rajasthan HC comes down hard on polluters in Barmer district

Stubble burning, dust from West put an end to north India’s clean air

The region had experienced clean skies during the COVID-19 lockdown, but now, particulate matters have again increased

Unregulated import of used vehicles bad for Africa: Report

Trade in old and used vehicles from high-income countries causes massive environmental dumping and toxic pollution

Green tribunal gives clean chit to Sterlite plant

Expert panel finds emissions from Vedanta subsidiary's copper smelting plant in Tuticorin to be within limits; state's contention that the plant …

Ambient air pollution behind recurring economic losses in Ethiopia, Ghana and Rwanda: UNEP

Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 million deaths across Africa in 2019 

Step towards transparency: Rajasthan pollution control board shares emissions data online

Many states yet to disclose CEMS data on their websites despite SC mandate in 2017

Kerala comes up with Operation AMRITH to tackle AMR

Operation Amrith is aimed at conducting surprise raids in retail medical shops for detecting OTC sale of antibiotics

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

Rent an e-scooter

An electric two-wheeler service in Pune promises to make commuting cleaner, easier

Division of labour

How biodiversity helps clean pollutants in water and soil

Human gene in plants

Pollution crackdown

Getting smart

...with materials that can sense changes in the environment and adjust accordingly

Too much noise

Firm action

For cleaner air

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