A wafting, pungent smell of decomposing flesh assaults nostrils more than 100 metres away.

Environmentalists are making a last-ditch effort to halt a controversial plan to build a 13 billion yuan (HK$14.5 billion) dam on China’s biggest freshwater lake, Poyang, fearing the project will t

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.

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

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