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Plan to free Yamuna of debris

NOIDA: The state irrigation department in Meerut has prepared an exhaustive plan for removal of construction debris from the Yamuna and its banks and to stop further dumping. The department has sent the

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Rivers polluted by faecal contamination: PCB study

Air heavy with RSPM, says report Coliform count in most of the Kerala rivers and ground water is far above the permissible limits whereas air in most cities was thick with Respirable Suspended Particulate

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NEERI study suggests improvement in Mithi waters

NEERI scientists believe continued efforts by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to take action against polluting industries will improve the quality further in the coming years. The Mithi river seems

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Mumbai is noisiest city in the world

Mumbai is hostage to air and water pollution at dangerous levels, and is probably the n the world, ahead of Delhi and Kolkata. Maharashtra's economic survey , released a day before World Environment Day

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China admits to failures over air quality

A senior Chinese government official has admitted that most major Chinese cities fail national standards for good air quality. Li Ganjie, a vice minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection,

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Water from third of Irish wells ‘contaminated with E. coli’

Nearly a third of all private wells in Ireland are contaminated with E. coli and contain water that is unsafe for consumption, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said. Recent studies revealed

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Action against sugar milldis charging toxic effluent faces delay

A case against the Chashma Sugar Mills, Dera Ismail Khan accused of discharging toxic effluent and thus, causing 10 deaths recently has been pending decision for one and a half years as the provincial

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Pak most vulnerable to climate changes

Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms, Professor Ahsan Iqbal Thursday said that any out of the season political change will be counterproductive to the development of the country. “Out of season

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Israel, Denmark keen to partner in Ganga clean-up

PM Narendra Modi's pet Ganga cleanup programme and his mission for clean water has attracted interest from foreign nations. Israel and Denmark, global leaders in water technology and water management,

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Sewage main reason for poor-quality river water

KSCSTE studies samples collected from five river basins An environmental monitoring programme carried out by the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology, and Environment (KSCSTE) in five river

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Kochi Chokes under Heavy Pollution

KOCHI: In 2012, when National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, Kochi, undertook a survey, Kochi stood at the 24th position...

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Good news for rivers in Britain

Scientists from Cardiff University have found that Britain's urban rivers are the cleanest they've been in over two decades. The 21-year study of over 2,300 rivers measured the presence of clean-river

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Illinois bans microbeads in cosmetics and soaps

Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation Sunday that he says gives Illinois the distinction as the first state in the nation to ban the sale and manufacture of soaps and cosmetics containing microbeads....

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Removal of Costa Concordia 'could pollute sea' around island of Giglio

The removal of the Costa Concordia threatens to pollute the pristine waters around the Italian island of Giglio where the ship capsized two years ago, according to a new report which has angered local

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Rio Bay Won’t Be Clean for 2016 Olympic Sailing, Mayor Says

Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes said the iconic Guanabara Bay won’t be clean in time for the 2016 Olympic sailing competition, breaking a promise made when the city won hosting rights in 2009. “I

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River taskforce to conduct mobile courts

The national taskforce on river protection has decided to conduct mobile courts against river encroachers and polluters. The decision was taken at a meeting of the taskforce yesterday. “Bangladesh Inland

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City going from bad to worse

Better Ludhiana: Pollution pangs Buddha Nullah, once called Buddha Dariya, tells the story of the deterioration of the city’s environment. A clean water rivulet with fishes of myriad varieties swimming

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Degrees of damage should decide penalty

Just why is it so difficult for the pollution control boards to check contamination of our rivers despite frequent closure notices and punitive action against the guilty? Senior environmental engineers

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Pollution killed aquatic life in Sabarmati

Unchecked littering has cost us our rivers and this is particularly true about Sabarmati which today has more garbage than water downstream in the city. Religious paraphernalia thrown from bridges,...

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Govt looks away as industrialists dump toxic waste in Sutlej

Even though Rajasthan Chief Minister has written to CM Parkash Singh Badal to check the discharge of industrial waste in Gung and Indira Gandhi Canal, industrial units continue to dump the waste in these

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