Water Pollution

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working to distort the way it measures the benefits of some of the agency’s most impactful policies, regulations that safeguard human health by limiting air pollution. The primary beneficiary of such distortion…

PHOTO: PPI/FILE ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel on Wednesday was told that there is a need for at least three more monitoring stations to check air quality in the federal capital even as the body sought a revival of the old fitness checking regime for all vehicle…

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. The Trump administration continues to erode US regulation in many areas – especially of the environment, with the …

WASHINGTON More than a dozen states are moving to strengthen environmental protections to fight a range of problems from climate change to water pollution, opening a widening rift between stringent state policies and the Trump administration's deregulatory ag…

INTERACTION Whale sharks, which feed in waters around the Philippines, are known to be gentle giants of the sea and do not pose danger to humans. FERDINAND EDRALIN / CEBU DAILY NEWS DONSOL, SORSOGON, Philippines As the annual Butanding Festival here kicked o…

Technology is often touted as a solution to the world's environmental challenges, but it is also part of the problem: industry executives are facing rising pressure to clean up their energy and resource-intensive business. How much energy, for example, does …

Mr Mohammed Zakari, an environmentalist, on Friday called for more enlightenment of residents on dangers of dumping refuse in rivers. Zakari, who is the Director, African Climate Reporters made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) i…

New Zealanders want more to be done to protect the country's whitebait fishery, with some calling for a ban on sales of the native fish. Almost 3000 people responded to a Department of Conservation survey on whitebait management and 90 per cent said changes…

Tajganj police in Agra lodged the FIR based on a complaint filed by Ankit Kumar Namdev, assistant conservator of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Taj Mahal division. (File photo) Those visiting the Taj Mahal may now compulsorily have to use shoe covers …

This photo series is a story of nature and people. The making was at once both burdensome and awesome. Many months these images haunted my dreams and permeated my thoughts for much of my waking hours. This work used up my strength, time and money. And at each…