The National Green Tribunal (NGT) is slated to pronounce on Monday on whether plastic packaging of products including polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers is safe or not.

The issue of ongoing protest by villagers displaced by the construction of the Damodar Valley Corporation's (DVC) Maithon dam in Jharkhand was raised in the Rajya Sabha today.

Awaaz Foundation and the national Indian Medical Association (IMA) have launched a countrywide campaign to tackle a health nuisance: honking.

India's water management issues have pushed the country to the top among 11 nations on the Environmental Justice Atlas, an interactive portal conceived by an international team that maps ecological

As we finish using an aesthetically designed tube of toothpaste, face wash or face wash, thousands of microbeads and microplastics would have mixed with the water systems, thereby causing serious e

Air pollution is associated with morbidity and premature mortality. Satellite remote sensing provides globally consistent decadal-scale observations of ambient nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution. The researchers determined global population-weighted annual mean NO2 concentrations from 1996 through 2012.

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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has become common in the Western world, but its causes remain unclear. With the dramatic increase of cases in Asia in recent years—echoing the disease’s drastic rise in the West decades earlier—investigators have another shot at studying environmental contributors to IBD as it emerges in new populations.

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The State government on Wednesday issued guidelines for payment of Environment Impact Fee of Rs 3 per sft for buildings above 10,000 square feet of built-up area.

GREATER NOIDA: After Noida, Greater Noida has adopted a tough stance against developers violating National Green Tribunal (NGT) norms during construction activities.

In a brazen violation of environmental laws, majority of the brick kilns in Kashmir are not implementing the specified and necessary measures for minimizing the pollution levels.

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