World Environment Day, under the initiative of District Pollution Board, was celebrated with a day-long event at Graham Bazaar Girls’ High School on Sunday.

Exposure to air pollutants arising from coal burning, vehicle exhaust, airborne dust and dirt can increase the risk of developing high blood pressure, warns a new study.

New Delhi:The health ministry will soon revamp its flagship immunisation programme 'Mission Indradhanush' to include four new vaccines.

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Ravi Kumar, Proprietor, M/s.Shree Foods Vs Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board & Others dated 18/05/2016. The appellants are small manufactures of eatable materials viz., chips by using potatos. Alleging that by washing potatoes, the untreated water is being discharged in the river Cooum, the impugned order of the Board came to be passed by exercising its jurisdiction under Section 33A of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974.

There is no doubt that the poorest people are already and will continue to be most severely impacted by climatic changes, including shifting trends as well as more frequent and severe extreme events.

Aquaculture uses hundreds of tonnes of antimicrobials annually to prevent and treat bacterial infection. The passage of these antimicrobials into the aquatic environment selects for resistant bacteria and resistance genes and stimulates bacterial mutation, recombination, and horizontal gene transfer. The potential bridging of aquatic and human pathogen resistomes leads to emergence of new antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and global dissemination of them and their antimicrobial resistance genes into animal and human populations.

The report reveals the influence of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef, and provides strong scientific evidence that future bleaching events are likely to become more frequent and severe.

The report reveals the influence of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef, and provides strong scientific evidence that future bleaching events are likely to become more frequent and severe.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Gram Panchayat Araba V/s State of Rajasthan & Ors. dated 26/04/2016 regarding industrial units in Jodhpur and Barmar causing pollution and disposing off thier waste in agricultural fields.

NGT in its Order expressed dismay at the manner in which the District Administration, Jodhpur and Badmer has been responding in this case for complying with the directions given from time and again. Thus, the Tribunal directed the Collector, Jodhpur to appear before the Court on the next date of hearing.

A study by the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at IIT Delhi, which looked at exposure to PM 2.5 and premature deaths caused by the particulate matter pollution, has revealed that Kinnaur in Himacha

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