Water Pollution

If you like to walk in the woods, raft a river, dig in a garden or look at butterflies, you could become an agent of change.Science and policy may not be enough to solve complex environmental challenges ranging from species extinction to water pollution, but …

One of the striking findings of the study is that there has been a concentration of heavy metals like zinc, nickel and copper in aquatic organisms, lending a major threat to the ecosystem. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) A recent study has confirmed that the Vem…

Lack of transparency in High Courts (The Hindu) Mains Paper 2 : PolityPrelims level : RTI ActMains level : Issues related with RTI Act Context  A study by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy has found that there is a large gap between the judiciarys pr…

CHONGQING, China (Reuters) - The 2,000 residents of Muhe, whose village was moved to higher ground a decade ago to escape the rising Yangtze River, have tried to make the most of their remaining land by planting orchards of oranges and persimmons along its ba…

Barisan Nasional candidate Wee Jeck Seng speaks on the campaign trail in Tanjung Piai. (Bernama pic) PONTIAN: Some Chinese residents in Tanjung Piai here are hoping for a comeback from their former MP Wee Jeck Seng ahead of the by-election this Saturday. Th…

The Trump administration is a government of Donald Trump and his cronies, for Donald Trump and his cronies, and by Donald Trump and his cronies. The Democratic Party has put this allegation at the center of its case for evicting Trump from the Oval Office AS…

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Donate We broadcast live from South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, where tonight the first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice will be held. Six presidential candidates Senator…

Supreme Court grapples with how to control water pollution

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed conflicted over the reach of the Clean Water Act as they heard arguments Wednesday in a clash over treated wastewater that environmentalists say is damaging a coral reef off Hawaii. Amid references to Agatha …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday wrestled over whether a wastewater treatment plant in Hawaii is subject to a federal water law in an important environmental case, with justices on both sides of the ideological divide appearing …