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Watch where vegetables grow

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Millions of Indians are facing a new health risk. Increasing water scarcity is forcing farmers to grow vegetables and fodder using untreated sewage waste water across urban and rural cities.

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IT city or plastic dumpyard?

Where there’s rubbish there’s nearly always plastic. Bengaluru’s streets are littered with tiny white and black plastic bags that fly into drains or simply lie around being an eyesore. While the other

APPCB wakes up to pollution in Kazipally

The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board seems to have finally smelled the stink of pollution caused by units in the Kazipally and Gaddapothram industrial areas. On Wednesday, the Board began taking

Check vehicle smoke or cough up fine

Be prepared to go to court if you are caught driving a polluting vehicle. The city traffic police along with the transport department, have embarked on a drive to crack the whip on owners of polluting

Diesel, vehicles is a fat combo

Could air pollution make you fat? After rice, fast food and a sedentary work culture, Chennai’s smoke-clogged air could be contributing to obesity, a US study shows.

The study published in American

Diesel vehicles on rise in TN

With each passing day, diesel vehicles keep piling up on TN roads at a massive rate, thanks to government subsidy which has made the price of diesel cheaper than that of petrol, so as to help farming

PCB still drafting E-waste rules

Even though e-Waste (Management and Handling) Rules have come into force from Tuesday, the AP Pollution Control Board is still gearing up for implementation and strict enforcement of these rules with

Open landfills causing groundwater pollution

Solid wastes being discarded in open dumping grounds or used as land fill in low-lying areas is causing soil run-off and groundwater pollution. The Pollution Control Board has conveyed this to the

Chennai running out of breath

Chennai seems to be in news for all the unhealthy reasons. After being labelled the diabetes capital of the country, it is now being called the asthma capital.

With vehicle population in TN crossing

Brahmapuram plant pollutes Kadambrayar

The summer showers that have cooled the city have also triggered pollution of the river Kadambrayar, a major freshwater source of the district , from the leachate of the defunct Brahmapuram solid was

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