The incidence of oral cancer could see a drop. This is the hope held out by a survey conducted four months after the state banned gutkha and pan masala in July.
Nearly 220 project proposals for construction within the Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR), a vast majority of them being residential, are pending for want of environmental clearance from the state
The BMC has appointed a technical advisory committee of experts to tackle solid waste management problems in the city. It will have its first meeting in early December.
The dropping mercury and rising smog have prolonged the deleterious effects of the air pollution generated by Diwali firecrackers, impacting Mumbaikars' health.
MUMBAI: Come January, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) will have to post on its website a weekly report on the performance of central effluent treatment plants (CETP) installed across
With the onset of migration of Flamingos and other migratory birds to Mumbai, bird watchers and ornithologists have demanded that the long-pending proposals to declare the Thane and Sewri wetlands,
A senior officer of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) was at the receiving end when angry residents of Kelwe, 90km from Mumbai, poured bottles of polluted water on him.
Recent leopard attacks in the city and capture of a third leopard from Aarey Colony this week have rekindled the man-animal conflict debate.
Under pressure after three attacks this month, the Thane forest department captured a third leopard, a male, at around 8.30 pm on Monday. Same day morning they had captured a female and another male two days before that. All animals were captured in Maroshi pada in Aarey Colony, where a 50-year-old woman was killed on November 2.
To protect spaces under flyovers from being encroached, and use them to increase green cover, the city’s development authority is roping in corporates and non-governmental organizations. The idea is to create small gardens in these spaces.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is looking for voluntary organisations, public sector units or companies that can undertake this as part of their corporate social responsibility for 10 flyovers in the city.
