Marine plastic debris is a widespread problem with an ever-growing list of animals entangled in fishing gear cropping up along shorelines around the world — sometimes resulting in death. In…
After sustained pressure from both civil society and courts over the past few years, the Indian government launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) in January 2019. Now, one year…
“It felt like apocalypse.” The year was 2016 and it was a day after Diwali, one of India’s biggest festivals. Mukuta Das, a young woman who lived in Gurgaon in…
In August this year, the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) filed a criminal case against the mayor, commissioner and four other officials of the Municipal Corporation of Ludhiana, a large…
India’s Ganga is a noisy river. There’s the churning of sediment, the hums, grunts and growls of fishes and turtles. There are the cacophonous stretches of cities and industries breathing…
Using treated wastewater for irrigation, while a practical way to conserve water, could negatively impact soil quality and further, human health. Given the risks, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)…
With about 100 industrial clusters polluting air and water across the country, India’s environment ministry has called for proper environmental management of these clusters. To restore the environment quality of…
“When the rain comes down, it starts looking like a river. Otherwise, it is just like this… a drain full of dirt and filth. If you have to see it…
As rapidly-expanding Guwahati, northeast India’s largest metropolis, gears up to clean its air under the National Clean Air Policy (NCAP), a study suggests a cocktail of natural and man-made pollutants…
Within six weeks of the release of an expert analysis that declared a 25 percent reduction in the pollution levels of Delhi, India’s national capital is once again in the…
Gurugram of Haryana is often referred to as the millennium city of India. However, behind the shine and glitter lies an ailing population. Soaring levels of air pollution in the…
India’s financial capital, Mumbai, and the national capital, Delhi, are the country’s top two metro cities when it comes to solid waste generated per day. Together, it is estimated, they…
Between 2011 and 2014, Maharashtra's legislative assembly saw the rise of Devendra Fadnavis as he galvanised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) against the then ruling Congress-Nationalist Congress Party combine and…
With India producing over six percent of the global waste tyres every year, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has expressed concern over the absence of effective management of these waste…
An electronic ozone alert flashes by, prompting us to "skip car trips" as we head for a hiking trip up in the Rocky Mountain National Park from Denver in Colorado…
In the latest budget session of the Odisha Legislative State Assembly, State forest and environment minister Bikram Keshari Arukha hinted at the extent of mining the northern region of the…
Legislations by Haryana and Punjab governments to save groundwater seems to have had an unexpected outcome – an increase in winter time air pollution in northern India, suggests a latest…
Under the scorching summer sun, a motley crew of women scientists, engineers and explorers armed with a range of scientific equipment, emerged from a boat and fanned out in different…
Haji Abdul Gaffar, 74, recalls the time when his village (Batpora-Budgam) and all the adjacent villages used to be lush green and free of pollution. It was around 40 years…
That single-use plastics in oceans can affect coastal habitats, marine organisms and even seafood, is today well documented. But can small fragments of plastic bags and straws change large-scale oceanographic…
