Six companies pledge Rs 62 crore to save seven waterbodies

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Court on its own Motion Vs. State of Karnataka dated 20/02/2017 regarding environmental disaster that had taken place at Bellandur Lake in Bangalore. From the photographs and the clippings displayed on the Television, it had been shown that the entire lake was on fire, emitting highly pollutant gases.

National Green Tribunal issues Suo-Moto issue Notice to the following:

1. State of Karnataka

2. Lake Authority of Bangalore

3. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

A new Duke University study has found high levels of selenium in fish in three North Carolina lakes receiving power plants’ coal ash waste.

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Y.N.Pandey vs. The Collector, Jagdalpur & Others dated 12/01/2017 regarding water pollution threat to Dalpatsagar Lake in Jagdalpur, Bastar District, Chhattisgarh.

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Dr. Alankrita Mehra Vs. Union of India & Others dated 23/12/2016 regarding untreated sewage coming into Upper Lake, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The Commissioner BMC submitted that they will present before the Tribunal details of the work which they intend to undertake for interception and diversion of the nallah so that there is zero discharge of untreated waste into the Upper Lake at Shirin Nallah.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Irfan Ahmad & Ors. Vs. Mr. Nawang Rigzin Jora & Others dated 06/12/2016 regarding municipal solid waste disposal, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. The Pollution Control Board with a Senior Professor from NIT Srinagar would submit a report with regard to collection, segregation, composting of the Municipal Solid Waste.

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Runoff of agricultural nutrients and sediments has led to re-eutrophication of lakes and impaired stream health in the Great Lakes Basin since around 2000 following earlier success in protecting water quality. Substantial investment in conservation actions has had insufficient impact, due in part to a limited basis for understanding the likely environmental outcomes of those investments. This article introduces a special section focusing on promoting investment that produces environmental outcomes as opposed to investing in conservation actions with unknown effects.

The Bam Ruknud-Dowlah lake continues to be at peril as it does not find a place on the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority's list of of over 2,800 lakes, said noted environmentalist Lubna

A strong legislation to protect lakes in the state has done little to curb encroachments and check pollution levels.

A week before Russia’s Daldykan river was turned red by a leak from a metals plant, the UN issued a warning as chilling as it was overlooked: 323 million people are at risk from life-threatening di

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