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The slurry of waste from chicken, beef and poultry processing would be stored in the lagoon and later applied as fertilizer to farm fields

কলকাতা শহরে বামপন্থার তিন দশকে জন-শৌচালয় বলে প্রায় কিছুই ছিল না। পুরুষদের প্রস্রাব দৃশ্য ছিল শহরের অন্যতম পরিচিতি।

Taking a painkiller to cure a headache might seem quite harmless. But many of the medicines we take can have far-reaching impacts on the environment, wildlife and potentially our own health.

If water is life, then the draining of the Kakhovka reservoir creates an uncertain future for the region of southern Ukraine and beyond.

The people of Africa have been on the receiving end of centuries of exploitation by people from the rest of the world, but perhaps the greatest and most lasting impact will be indirect: climate change, Ivor Ichikowitz writes.

KATHMANDU, June 6: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the government to bring all those involved in environment pollution under the ambit of law.

20 years since the breakup of Yugoslavia, a failure to establish good waste disposal practices has left Bosnia’s Drina river full of rubbish.

A wild elephant eats garbage containing plastic waste at a dump in Sri Lankas eastern district of Ampara. Sri Lanka is set to launch a nation-wide clean up of plastic waste ahead of new laws banning the sale of single use plastics, the Environmental ministry said, after a spate of deaths of elephants and deer in the islands northeast after foraging at open garbage tips filled with plastic waste, whilst shrinking habitat has led to jumbos raiding villages looking for food.

The UNEP has revealed a 17-year roadmap for cutting pollution.

This is part of the real-time source apportionment study that is underway in Delhi to assess the sources of air pollution in real-time.