The revenue officials will conduct a survey soon to study the depth of encroachment and coastal regulation zone (CRZ) violations on the shores of Vembanad, the longest lake in India.

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.

It's not just the common man who is cash-strapped at the moment.

Hyderabad: The NGT will take up on Friday, a petition against alleged attempts to ease restrictions on buildings in a 10-km area around the Himayatsagar and Osmansagar.

The Neela Hauz lake, a natural depression near Sanjay Van in south Delhi, once the source of drinking water for the locality, had turned into a dumping ground for malba and raw sewage from the surr

Order of the High Court of Uttarakhand at Nainital in the matter of Tara Singh Rajput Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 07/11/2016 regarding the issue of felling of trees indiscriminately as well as the unauthorized constructions, in the close vicinity of Bhimtal Lake area, Nainital district in the state of Uttarakhand.

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

HOWRAH: About 30-35 fish were found dead in one of the 24 lakes in the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden on Tuesday morning.

Drinking water supplied at TNHB Colony, Korattur, is giving out a foul smell as effluents from factories at Ambattur have entered Metrowater pipelines, say residents.

Nepal has successfully drained part of a giant glacial lake near Mount Everest, averting risk of a disastrous flood that could have threatened thousands of lives, officials said on Monday.

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