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Waste collectors look for recyclable materials at a landfill site in New Delhi.

Odisha Tops List Of Most Contaminated Sites Posing Grave Health Threat

Remediation work has been started to clean up 14...

A dredger at work in the Ganga river. Photo: Mayukh Dey

CPCB Says No ‘Significant Improvement’ in Water Quality of Rivers During Lockdown

The Wire Staff 24/09/2020

A report released by the body found that the...

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Why the Vedanta-Sterlite Judgement Matters – an Annotated Deconstruction

Nityanand Jayaraman 24/08/2020

Public participation weirded the pitch for Vedanta, a multinational...

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Smog Towers Have No Scientific Basis as a Policy Measure

Santosh Harish 06/08/2020

Smog towers and solutions like them are attractive to...

Air quality turns severe in Delhi. Credit: Reuters/File picture

Simply Generating More Data and Sharing It Won’t Solve Our Air Pollution Crisis

Dharmesh Shah 28/07/2020

In addition, central ownership of data can't pave the...

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CPCB Proposes Stringent Fines for Noise Pollution

Mayank Aggarwal 08/07/2020

While rules to regulate noise pollution exist, there is...

File photo of employees rowing a boat as they examine solar panel boards at a pond in Lianyungang

For Developing Countries, More Solar Power – and More Lead Contamination

Anuradha Varanasi 04/06/2020

In India, tens of millions of households remain without...