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• Western Ghats gives a glimpse of its biodiversity. Kerala (The Hindu 18.09.2019).
• ‘More research needed on eco- friendly materials’.(The Hindu 18.09.2019).
• HC fines NGO Rs. 1 lakh for ‘frivolous’ PIL. (The Hindu 17.09.2019).
• ‘Society needs to resist the carcinogen of anxiety’.(The Hindu 17.09.2019).
• Reply to plea on environmental labs, NGT tells Central Pollution Control Board.(The Hindu 17.09.2019).
• PCB drafts new action plan to tackle Periyar pollution. Kichi(The Hindu 16.09.2019).
• Third phase of Adyar eco-restoration to begin soon. Chennai(The Hindu 16.09.2019).
• ‘Eliminate confusion over ban on single-use plastic’.(The Hindu 16.09.2019).
• CM meets experts to chalk out action plan to fight pollution in winter. (The Hindu 13.09.2019).
• Fishkill along seashore sparks panic. Tamil Nadu(The Hindu 13.09.2019).
• Shun single use plastic, says PM, launches programme to vaccinate 500 mn livestock.(The Hindu 13.09.2019).
• Ravidas temple: CM writes to Puri over denotification of forest land. (The Hindu 12.09.2019).
• Second phase of fencing work begins to prevent dumping of waste in River Coonoor. Tamil Nadu(The Hindu 12.09.2019).
• ‘Begin demarcation of Yamuna floodplains’. (Indianexpress 12.09.2019).
• India will put an end to single-use plastic in the coming years, says PM Modi.(The Hindu 12.09.2019).
• Minister orders action against industrial unit. Puducherry (The Hindu 11.09.2019).
• Protected species do not belong in your home. Tamil Nadu(The Hindu 11.09.2019).
• Factoring in safety: on stronger worker safety law. (The Hindu 11.09.2019).
• Action plan to combat high levels of air pollution in Thoothukudi. Tamil Nadu(The Hindu 09.09.2019).
• Early environmental exposures affect blood pressure in children: Study. Bengaluru (The Hindu 09.09.2019).
• More than 95% of Ganesha idols immersed made of plaster of paris. Coimbatore (The Hindu 06.09.2019).
• Corporation’s e-waste collection centre awaits TN Pollution Control Board’s nod. Tamil Nadu (The Hindu 06.09.2019).
• 116 kg of plastic items seized in two days in Mangaluru. Magngaluru (The Hindu 06.09.2019)
• Green tribunal warns all States to properly deal with hazardous waste. (The Hindu 05.09.2019)
• HC seeks State’s view on conducting study on KC valley project. (The Hindu 05.09.2019)
• India’s climate score: high on vulnerability, low on resilience. (The Hindu 05.09.2019)
• After coal, NGT glare on illegal stone mining in Meghalaya. (The Hindu 04/09/2019)
• HC stays construction of artificial islands in Begur lake. (The Hindu 30/08/2019)
• Solar energy badly harms the environment. It must be taxed, not subsidised. (The Times of India 02.09.2019)
• Pak skips UN summit in India on restoring land (THe Time sof India 03.09.2019)
• What is the protocol that needs to be in place before a ban on single-use plastic items comes into force? The Hindu 01.09.2019
• Drilling into children the message of eco-friendly celebrations (Hyderabad), The Hindu 02.09.2019
• ‘Wildlife journalism requires thorough research’. (The Hindu 02.09.2019)
• Dead fish wash ashore at Marudhaandapalli Lake (Coimbatore). (The Hindu 29.08.2019)
• Flood delays work on 25-acre reservoir along Yamuna river (The Hindu 29.08.2019)
• Reforest Europe, Brazil tells G7, rejecting $20mn aid to fight Amazon Fires. (International) (The Hindu 28.08.2019)
• Parking lot plan a threat to Ooty's lone wetland (Tamil Nadu). (The Hindu 28.08.2019)
• Namami Gange’, $4bn project for cleaning 2500km-long river reaches Western World.(The Times of India 27.8.2019)
• Warplanes dump water on Amazon as Brazil military begins fighting fires (The Hindu: 26-08-2019)
• ‘Non-ODF areas 13 times more prone to ground water pollution’ (TOI: 06-06-2019)
• Carbon Zero Challenge throws up innovative products (The Hindu: 06-06-2019)
• Sewage chokes Yamuna as DJB continues to miss deadlines (The Hindu: 06-06-2019)
• US scientist says Everest increasingly polluted and warmer (TOI: 05-06-2019)
• 1 lakh kids under 5 years of age die due to air pollution each year: Study (TOI: 05-06-2019)
• World Environment Day: President Kovind reaffirms commitment to cleaner, sustainable planet (TOI: 05-06-2019)
• Movement launched seeking irrigation facility for drought-prone Kudligi (The Hindu: 31-05-2019)
• Country’s largest sewage plant to come up at Okhla (TOI: 30-05-2019)
• Badarpur eco park to rival New York’s Central Park (TOI: 30-05-2019)
• Malaysia's last male Sumatran rhino dies in captivity (The Hindu: 28-05-2019)
• Spreading the ‘no burn’ word about waste (The Hindu: 28-05-2019)
• ‘World’s rivers loaded with antibiotics waste’ (The Hindu: 28-05-2019)
• Air pollution down by a fourth in car-free zone of Karol Bagh (TOI: 27-05-2019)
• Delhi: Below mountains of trash lie poison lakes (TOI: 27-05-2019)
• Tweet summer: 177 species spotted in NCR (TOI: 27-05-2019)
• It is time to impose ban on single-use plastic (The Hindu: 27-05-2019)
• The dark side of Kappalur Industrial Estate (The Hindu: 27-05-2019)
• Amid green nod blame game, a mountain rises in Bandhwari (The Hindu: 27-05-2019)
• Study pinpoints source of ozone-depleting gas (The Hindu: 24-05-2019)
• Reality check: Delhi’s five lakes at deep end (TOI: 23-05-2019)
• Yamuna cleaner this April than it was previous year, finds study (TOI: 23-05-2019)
• Over 1,000 fires ravage 1,369 ha forest cover in U’khand (TOI: 23-05-2019)
• Think green, act green (The Hindu: 23-05-2019)
• NHAI told to furnish fresh details on green cover (The Hindu: 22-05-2019)
• For the flora and fauna (The Hindu: 22-05-2019)
• Global sea levels could rise more than expected: Study (Business Line: 21-05-2019)
• No protection to species that live underground, says expert (The Hindu: 21-05-2019)
• As lake goes waste, NGT seeks report from DDA (TOI: 21-05-2019)
• Stubble burning incidents down in Punjab this harvest season (The Hindu: 21-05-2019)
• Who will save Yamuna from its ‘saviours’ ? (TOI: 20-05-2019)
• Long-term plans to fight pollution in Delhi gathering dust (The Hindu: 20-05-2019)
• Bhubaneswar city administration urged to give priority to native species (The Hindu: 19-05-2019)
• Air pollution hotspots in Europe (TOI: 18-05-2019)
• Smoke billowing from landfill site continues to concern residents (The Hindu: 17-05-2019)
• 414 million plastic pieces found on Indian Ocean islands: Study (TOI: 17-05-2019)
• Revived in 2016, Neela Hauz lake fast becoming a dumping ground again (TOI: 14-05-2019)
• Delhi government circular directs schools to save water (The Hindu: 14-05-2019)
• Stubble burning: NGT seeks status report on action to curb pollution (The Hindu: 14-05-2019)
• DNA database coming up for Indian rhino (The Hindu: 14-05-2019)
• Carbon dioxide hits record high level (The Hindu: 13-05-2019)
• 104 trees likely to be removed for Versova-Bandra Sea Link project (The Hindu: 13-05-2019)
• Vedanta gets nod to conduct impact assessment for 274 hydrocarbon wells in T.N., Puducherry (The Hindu: 13-05-2019)
• NBRI: Arsenic bioremediation using two soil bacteria (The Hindu: 12-05-2019)
• Action plan approved for five ‘critically polluted’ industrial clusters in Karnataka (The Hindu: 10-05-2019)
• Mysterious snakehead fish from Kerala found (The Economic Times: 09-05-2019)
• Making a molehill out of a landfill mountain in Delhi (The Hindu: 09-05-2019)
• NGT seeks compliance report on solid waste management rules (The Hindu: 09-05-2019)
• Locking CO2 in a rock may check global warming (TOI: 09-05-2019)
• NGT tells CPCB, UPPCB to submit report on pollution (The Hindu: 08-05-2019)
• Bengal tigers may not survive climate change (The Hindu: 08-05-2019)
• Sand, a global sustainability challenge: UN report (The Hindu: 08-05-2019)
• Odisha’s wildlife sanctuaries ravaged by Fani (The Hindu: 08-05-2019)
• 1/8th of flora & fauna face extinction due to degradation of biodiversity (The Economic Times: 07-05-2019)
• Krebs Biochemicals has put public health at risk: HRF (The Hindu: 07-05-2019)
• NGT seeks report over ‘illegal sand mining’ in Ghaziabad (The Hindu: 07-05-2019)
• Environment Impact Assessment exemption sought for Kalasa-Banduri project (The Hindu: 07-05-2019)
• Garbage disposal issues still plague Puducherry (The Hindu: 06-05-2019)
• Calling on birds (The Hindu: 06-05-2019)
• Ramakrishna Mission, Thimmakka lauded for environment work (The Hindu: 03-05-2019)
• NGT seeks report on illegal lead-melting factories (The Hindu: 03-05-2019)
• Glaciers from half of world heritage sites to disappear by 2100 (The Economic Times: 03-05-2019)
• Odisha, Andhra Pradesh brace for ‘Fani’ landfall (The Hindu: 02-05-2019)
• Deadly Fall Armyworm threat here to stay (The Hindu: 02-05-2019)
• Microplastics in the air! (The Hindu: 02-05-2019)
• Ensure sewage isn’t used to irrigate rail farms: Bombay HC (TOI: 01-05-2019)
• Large-scale mining to return to Chickballapur after nearly 4 years (The Hindu: 01-05-2019)
• Panama Canal drought, linked to El Niño, highlights climate fears (The Hindu: 30-04-2019)
• Causing destruction (The Hindu: 30-04-2019)
• World’s oceans are becoming stormier: Study (TOI: 30-04-2019)
• Climate change being fuelled by soil damage - report (BBC: 29-04-2019)
• Committee constituted to oversee clean air programme (The Hindu: 29-04-2019)
• HC stays NGT order to penalise govt. for sorry state of city rivers (TOI: 10-04-2019)
• ‘Elected caretakers not proactive in finding lasting solutio to bad air’ (TOI: 10-04-2019)
• NGT raps DPCC over failure to curb air pollution in the Capital (The Hindu: 09-04-2019)
• Plea on erosion of Yamuna floodplain: NGT forms body to look into matter (The Hindu: 09-04-2019)
• Waste management a key poll plank in district (The Hindu: 08-04-2019)
• 92% in Asia exposed to harmful air (The Hindu: 01-04-2019)
• Nature-based is the new organic (The Hindu: 01-04-2019)
• Restructuring landfills: Bhalswa follows Okhla (The Hindu: 01-04-2019)
• IIT Madras converts petroleum waste toluene into useful product (The Hindu: 31-03-2019)
• Today's environmental challenges need all of us, not half of us. Empower women. #SolveDifferent (UN Environment: 08-03-2019)
• Badarpur to get eco park spread over 884 acres (TOI: 08-03-2019)
• Govt puts complete ban on import of solid plastic waste (The Economic Times: 07-03-2019)
• Delhi tops list of most polluted cities in Greenpeace study (The Hindu: 05-03-2019)
• Crop burning raises risk of respiratory illness threefold, says IFPRI study (The Hindu: 05-03-2019)
• Economic cost of stubble burning is Rs 2 lakh crore a year, reveals study (TOI: 05-03-2019)
• Fires are a crucial component of some forest systems, says group of scientists (The Hindu: 04-03-2019)
• First evidence of ancient groundwater system found on Mars: Scientists (Business Standard: 04-03-2019)
• A treasure trove of information on plants (The Hindu: 03-03-2019)
• Civic body to go for bio-mining of solid waste dumped at Vendipalayam, Vairapalayam yards (The Hindu: 27-02-2019)
• Antarctica is about to lose an iceberg 30 times the size of Manhattan as two cracks converge and it could cripple a British research station (Business Insider: 26-02-2019)
• Where have all the insects gone? (The Hindu: 26-02-2019)
• PCB to test ash from Brahmapuram for heavy metal presence (The Hindu: 26-02-2019)
• Guess who just flew in? (The Hindu: 01-02-2019)
• Green panel seeks complete details on demarcation of Southern Ridge (The Hindu: 01-02-2019)
• All vehicles in NCR to have fuel stickers by October: EPCA (The Times of India: 01-02-2019)
• This was Delhi’s coldest December-January in 13 years (The Times of India: 01-02-2019)
• 4 more waste-to-energy plants in Delhi, corporations say city of two Delhi, Corporations say city of two crore people has no option (The Times of India: 31-01-2019)
• Air quality slips, Delhi pins hope on rain (The Times of India: 31-01-2019)
• Ensure no waste is dumped in Shahdara drain, CPCB tells Delhi government (The Times of India: 31-01-2019)
• NGT: Delhi schools to pay Rs 5 lakh fine if they fail to tap rainwater (The Times of India: 31-01-2019)
• Dumping your waste on city roads? Think twice (The Hindu: 31-01-2019)
• Stormy weather awaits India in 2019 (The Hindu: 31-01-2019)
• Karnataka High Court stays ban on cultivation of eucalyptus (The Hindu: 31-01-2019)
• NGT orders remediation steps for Kuzhikkandam creek (The Hindu: 24-01-2019)
• Cleaning water using bacteria (The Hindu: 24-01-2019)
• Study to identify pollutants affecting air quality in Delhi (The Hindu: 24-01-2019)
• Council nod for phytoremediation technique to cleanse Conolly Canal water of metals (The Hindu: 23-01-2019)
• Ministry notifies new CRZ norms (The Hindu: 23-01-2019)
• India stares at water scarcity (The Hindu: 23-01-2019)
• Buried in the sands (The Hindu: 23-01-2019)
• This is not the future we want (The Hindu: 21-01-2019)
• ‘Reject unplanned projects’ (The Hindu: 21-01-2019)
• Bring 500-acre Goregaon plot under CRZ 1, says green activist (TOI: 21-01-2019)
• Warmest January day in 12 years (TOI: 21-01-2019)
• Delhi air quality poor, may worsen after 2 days (TOI: 16-01-2019)
• Remote sensing to detect vehicular pollution in Delhi (TOI: 16-01-2019)
• 2018 December saw 167 cold waves, the highest in 13 years (TOI: 16-01-2019)
• Antarctica ice melting increased by 280% in last 16 years (The Hindu: 15-01-2019)
• Delhi air pollution today: AQI at 'poor' 276 for first time in new year, to worsen again (Times Now: 11-01-2019)
• How Hyderabad's Pharma City is Flouting Environmental Norms (The Wire: 11-01-2019)
• Maharashtra has 17 polluted cities, highest among states (Times of India: 11-01-2019)
• Centre aims for 20% cut in air pollution by 2024 (The Hindu: 11-01-2019)
• Climate change: Need for multipronged vision stressed (The Hindu: 11-01-2019)
• Fog to stay, weekend shower may send mercury down again (TOI: 09-01-2019)
• Construction dust, open waste dumping top polluting activities (TOI: 09-01-2019)
• Greenland s melting ice sheet releasing tons of methane: Study (The Hindu: 09-01-2019)
• Shut down industries in Daryaganj, NGT to govt (TOI: 08-01-2019)
• How roadside hedges can help combat pollution (TOI: 08-01-2019)
• Delhi govt and US univ team up for real-time air study (TOI: 08-01-2019)
• Southern Ridge fenced to block squatters after NGT rap (TOI: 08-01-2019)
• Book fair largely plastics-free (The Hindu: 08-01-2019)
• ‘Deploy task force for waste management during Kumbh’(The Hindu: 08-01-2019)
• Rain improves air quality, but don’t expect relief to to last long
• Forest cover in NE states: Parliamentary panel asks environment ministry to arrest declining trend
• India’s annual carbon footprint increased but is well on track to meet its global climate pledges
• Ban on entry of trucks into city for 24 hrs
• 1,000 litres of clean water daily, straight from drain
• Delhi: Rain over weekend may bring dense fog
• Scan to know: Trees at Lodhi Garden get QR codes
• A new year, but very poor air is still an improvement
• ASI declared 6 monuments of national importance in 2018
• Capital records clearest December in 22 years
• Air quality improves, govt reviews pollution-control measures
• As mercury continues to dip, Delhi’s air plays hot and cold
• Fog woes begin as cold wave continues
• Delhi: Next time at Lodhi Garden, scan the trees
• Delhi: With AQI at 408, it’s most polluted Xmas in 4 years...
• Dry for decades, Roshanara lake to get its mojo back, and may be birds too
• India recorded 95 tiger deaths in 2018, 41 outside reserves
• Organic food good for you, but not for planet
• Brace for fog as coldest day so far keeps Delhi air poor
• How are crop fires hurting locals? Study to find out
• Campaign to check vehicular pollution near Delhi-NCR schools
• Andhra Pradesh braces for another cyclone as Phethai to make landfall today
• How humans are reversing climate clock by 50m years
• Pollution ke side effects: Delhi’s foreign tourist inflow down by 30%
• Delhi: Severe air quality sparks emergency meet
• Bulk waste generators to pay Rs 10,000 a day for not segregating
• Delhi air pollution: Your air purifier can fight PM2.5, but it may be a part of CO2 problem at home
• How roaches are fixing China’s food waste problem
• Want clean air? Move to Gurugram. Oh, wait...
• India third largest contributor to carbon emission
• Air pollution kills 7 million every year
• A day after NGT's 25cr fine, toxic fires still rage in Mundka
• In 2017, India second worst in extreme weather deaths
• NASA releases time-lapse of the disappearing Arctic polar ice cap
• Delhi govt fined Rs 25cr for failing to curb pollution
• Is pollution taking a toll on flamingos in Najafgarh?
• Delhi's 'severe' air quality, Mike Pence in Japan, and other news in pictures
• Let only CNG vehicles ply in city on bad air days: EPCA
• Not all farmers burn stubble, some use it to improve harvest
• All gas: Will shutting Delhi down help?
• Many winter guests skip flying visit to city
• An industrial zone left out of pollution fight
• Use treated water NGT to farmers