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Marine debris entangled in branching coral in the waters of the Gulf of Mannar. Photo courtesy SDMRI.

Ghosts of the gulf: Marine debris a threat to corals in the Gulf of Mannar

Aathira Perinchery 18 Jan 2021

[Commentary] Cost-effective technology options for Faecal Sludge Management

Sandhya Haribal, Tarika Vaswani 23 Dec 2020

Biodiversity threats from ghost fishing gear in the Ganga

Sahana Ghosh 18 Dec 2020
Biomedical waste dumped in Dombivali’s Milap Nagar during ongoing the COVID pandemic. Photo by Kishor Sohoni.

Mumbai’s COVID waste peaks, second waste treatment plant not in sight

Tanvi Deshpande 1 Sep 2020

Your Environment This Week: Wild campuses, e-waste disposal, Onam food for thought

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2020

[Explainer] The why and how of disposing electronic waste

Sejal Mehta 25 Aug 2020

Pollution watchdog releases guidelines to handle COVID-19 biomedical waste

Mayank Aggarwal 24 Mar 2020

Use treated effluents for irrigation with caution, advises CPCB

Mayank Aggarwal 13 Nov 2019

Wanted: An urgent political saviour for river Yamuna

Hridayesh Joshi 25 Oct 2019

Mountain of waste in Aravallis casts a shadow in villages nearby

Hridayesh Joshi 18 Oct 2019

India’s megacities, Mumbai and Delhi, sitting on a pile of waste

Mayank Aggarwal 11 Oct 2019

MoEFCC expert committee gives wildlife clearance for Kaiga nuclear plant’s expansion

Mayank Aggarwal 3 Oct 2019
Coonoor stream after it was cleaned up. Photo by Clean Coonoor.

Coonoor citizens and officials clean the streams and river in the hill town

Nina Varghese 2 Oct 2019

Control import of waste tyres into India, NGT tells pollution board

Mayank Aggarwal 27 Sep 2019

Recycle & reuse: Indian government proposes a resource efficiency policy

Mayank Aggarwal 2 Aug 2019

A year on, plastic waste returns to U.P. despite ban

Kanchan Srivastava 15 Jul 2019

Environmental issues zoom out of focus in the budget

Mayank Aggarwal 10 Jul 2019

Fine those dumping waste into water bodies, says pollution watchdog

Mayank Aggarwal 26 Jun 2019
Wicker-Artisans

Plastic ban in J&K opens door for revival of wicker crafts

Athar Parvaiz 13 Jun 2019

People in this Mumbai slum barely make it to age 40

Apekshita Varshney 24 Apr 2019