The city’s 9,400 tonne of municipal solid waste, generated per day, can soon be diverted to the Kanjurmarg dumping site as the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) has approved cha

The civic body has finally woken up to the number of dangers the fish and the ducks are facing due to the floating flowers and polluted water at the Banganga pond in Walkeshwar.

THE city witnessed a noisier, but cleaner Diwali this year.

Almost nine years after the Bombay high court ordered notification of mangroves on government land in the state for better protection, mangroves in Thane, Raigad, Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri districts

In an attempt to reduce the amount of ‘nirmalya’ waste reaching the dumping grounds, the BMC has started a waste segregation and composting project after the Ganpati Visarjan.

Around 400 projects across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) are awaiting appraisal for environment clearances since July since the regulatory body has remained non-functional for two months.

After the National Green Tribunal (NGT) rapped the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) last week for not diverting the Khemani nullah that carries sewage directly into Ulhas river, the UMC has n

Thane, Vasai and Vaitarna creeks are three of the 17 sites in Maharashtra that have been identified as “Important Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Areas (ICMBA)” by the Wildlife Institute of India (

The treated industrial effluent from the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) to Ulhas and Waldhuni rivers is not discharged into the river at a point decided by the National Institute of Oceanog

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) seems to have washed its hands of taking action against alleged mangrove destruction by Esselworld at Gorai by informing the Bombay High Court (HC) on

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