The corporation has decided to move earth and water, literally, to make the city more livable.

Release of dioxin in the air through burning of municipal waste, hospital waste and automobile emission is the major cause behind the spread of cancer in the state.

Fearing pollution in the area, around 200 locals from Deep Nagar Curti, Ponda, stopped a truck full of garbage on Wednesday afternoon.

BHOPAL: The designated garbage dumping site of the civic body at Bhanpur, which has been operational for the last 33 years, does not have clearance from pollution monitoring agency MPPCB.

Huge garbage including that from sacrificial animals is being dumped into the Puratan Brahmaputra River at Puran Godaraghat in the town, adding to serious pollution of the already dying river.

Huge amounts of garbage line the Qinghai-Tibet Highway on the namesake plateau in west China, posing severe threats to local ecology, recent research found.

After successfully running its door-to-door garbage collection drive across all wards, the Cuncolim municipal council (CMC) has proposed to introduce a fee, where residents will have to pay 1 a day

Though generation of waste has gone up steeply in the Capital in particular and the Kathmandu Valley in general, local bodies have largely failed to dispose of waste.

With the contract of the agencies cleaning Godavari river with the help of boats coming to an end on September 30, the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) had floated tenders for the job about a for

Days since they were set up, the stalls erected at the Colva fama have contributed to mounds of garbage.