There was a time when the banks of Chitrapuzha near Irumpanam were blessed by the green and yielding paddy fields.

GUWAHATI: There are 731 brick kilns across the State. According to the Pollution Control Board (PCB), Assam till December 2012, 193 out of the 731 brick kilns were operating illegally and flouting environmental regulations.

According to PCB sources, the 193 brick kilns which have been set up illegally are flouting the guidelines mentioned in the Air (Pollution Control and Prevention) Act, 1981.

The Henan provincial government shut down a paper factory found to have discharged polluted water into farmland.

Urban sewage, hospital waste, and pesticide residues are polluting kole lands, the ecologically fragile wetland ecosystems in Malappuram and Thrissur noted for the integrated farming of rice and fish.

An expert committee appointed by the State government has found that sewage pollution from urban areas was being directly discharged into the main canals in the kole lands. This, it observed, often led to mass mortality of fish. Organic waste from urban areas, hospital waste, and pesticide residue from paddy fields were identified as other sources of pollution.

A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday that Royal Dutch Shell can be held partially responsible for pollution in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria, saying the company should have prevented sabotage at

The farmers whose land is situated near a lake across the barbed wire fencing at Sadiqi Joint Check Post (JCP) in the Fazilka sector allege the water of the lake is damaging their crops due to the flow of contaminated water from the Pakistani side.

The Pakistani territory begins on the other side of the lake. But the land under water falls into the Indian side. “The inflow of polluted water from Pakistan has started damaging the crops on the Indian side. Our land has started turning barren,” said Dr Jeet Singh and Babir Singh, local farmers.

People living in peripheral villages of Sewa Paper Mill, Gangapur, have threatened to lock the mill as the unit is releasing toxic water into their areas.

HYDERABAD, Jan 6: Participants of a Sindh Abadgar Board (SAB) meeting on Sunday urged the government to ensure scientific treatment of wastewater being released into the Sindh waterways by establis