A Colorado judge has come up with a novel punishment for noise polluters - they are forced to listen to Barry Manilow. Judge Paul Sacco says his unorthodox punishment of forcing noise ordinance violators to sit in a room and listen to music they don

A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change. A cemetery in Santa Coloma de Gramenet is now producing enough power for 60 homes. Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town outside Barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its cemetery, transforming a place of perpetual rest into one buzzing with renewable energy.

Around 60 healthcare facilities are not incinerating their hazardous waste, while around 132 healthcare centres are using the incineration facilities for hazardous waste available at the Shalimar Hospital Waste Management Company (SHWMC), officials at the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and the SHWMC said on Thursday.

Capital Development Authority (CDA) has threatened to stop water supply from Khanpur Dam to the city and cantonment areas if Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) and Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) don

Pakistan will go to the World Bank (WB) to seek compensation from India for reduced water flow in the Chenab River and design defects in Baglihar Dam, Indus Water Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah said on Wednesday.

Shah reiterated that Pakistan had demanded water, not monetary compensation, from India for the losses incurred due to decreased water flow in the Chenab.

According to a spokesman of the Punjab Health Department, 34 people more were diagnosed with dengue fever over the past 24 hours while five patients are under treatment in private hospitals. Meanwhile, 58-year-old Suriya Begum of Mughalpura died at the Services Hospital on Tuesday, whose dengue virus test was positive.

Twelve hundred children between the ages of six and 16 become chain smokers in Pakistan every year, which increases the chances of them falling prey to chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD).

The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) is going to take action against the government agencies concerned for not following the solid waste management guidelines, which can cause several diseases, including dengue, EPA officials said on Saturday.

Diabetes has turned into an epidemic, with approximately 10 to 12 percent of the country

The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has formed a special committee on climate change, which includes a representative of the Metrological Department and an environmentalist.

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