Water Pollution

With all efforts to stop the sale and use of toxic colour powders in Erumely coming to a naught, District Collector P.K. Sudheer Babu has now issued a formal order banning shops from stocking and selling the material. The directive, issued under Cr.PC sectio…

A greenish-yellow liquid oozing onto a section of a major Michigan highway is the same cancer-causing substance that was involved in the notorious California water-pollution case brought by activist Erin Brockovich, according to authorities and reports. The …

ADUN SPEAKS | Early this morning the enforcement units of the Pahang state government moved in to demolish the rest of the farms numbering about 60 situated along Sungei Ichat, in Kuala Terla, Cameron Highlands. In April 2019, the state government demolished…

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Re: Democrats, White House reach accord on new NAFTA : According to the Sierra Club, the deal falls far short of the fundamental changes that Democrats and environmental groups have consistently said are needed to curb NAFTAs environmental damag…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the plea filed by one of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, seeking review of its 2017 judgement upholding his death penalty. A three-judge bench was headed by Justice R Banumathi, and compri…

A wildfire's path of destruction is not limited to things that burnwater is at risk too. When fires jump from forests and grasslands to urban areas, they incinerate household and industrial items such as computers and cars, leaving behind a stew of chemicals …

Her enthusiasm, intelligence  and  energy  could  leave  you  lost  in  admiration.  The  General  Manager,  Lagos  Sate  Environmental  Protection  Agency,  LASEPA,  Dr  Dolapo  Fasawe,  is  one  fascinating  woman  truly  fit  for  the  herculean  job  of  …

Peoria, Illinois is home to one of the nation's first stormwater farms, the Well Farm at Voris Field. It was designed "to capture water runoff from a 1.55-acre area, to prevent an estimated 1.3 million gallons of stormwater from entering the city's combined s…

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has started work on cleaning the insect faeces deposited on some sections of the iconic Taj Mahal, officials have said. The problem was first detected on the northern arch and marble pedestal wall of the monuments mai…