Eco-friends, a non-governmental organisation, has been striving to control pollution and protect the environment in Kanpur. One of its tasks is to depollute the Ganges, whose stretch along Kanpur

An ecologically informed master plan for Kanpur may help the city deal with pollution

The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and the collector of Thanjavur to ini

Only a very small section of the country s urban population benefits from sewerage systems and this section consists of the richest urban people

the threat of arsenic pollution looms large over the north Karanpura coal fields of south Bihar, in the coal samples of Bachara and Piparwar. A recent study conducted by Nitish Priyadarshi, a

An alternative plan to clean up the river Ganga at Varanasi has been submitted by a local NGO

Homicide by Pesticides: words of shared concern

Pesticides and industrial runoff all along the river Yamuna have turned its water into poison. This is one of the key findings of Homicide by Pesticides , the latest publication of the Centre for

Mythology has named Yamuna after the sister of Yama, the Hindu God of death. With the presence of toxic pesticides and chemicals in the river, this nomenclature seems prophetic

...is yet another example of monstrous short sightedness on the part of governments bent on addressing their needs without a thought for the environment

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