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Delhi’s Bhalswa landfill waste upcycled into 50,000 eco-friendly bricks

At Delhi’s Bhalswa landfill, more than 100 tonnes of legacy waste have been upcycled into 50,000 eco-friendly bricks through an initiative led by engineer Vipul Singh and architect Gunraagh Talwar. T...

AEESP Issues Statement in Support of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Environmental Protection

The Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) has released a public statement emphasizing the importance of higher education, scientific research, and environmental prot...

Civil Engineering News Recap of March 2025

You can now find TheCivilEngineer.org's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting civil engineering news of March 2025. Namely, these were: 1) Hydro...

Toxic Air and Sickness: The Deadly Impact of Delhi’s Landfills

For years, Delhi’s landfills have symbolized an environmental disaster—massive, toxic mountains of waste, towering over neighborhoods and poisoning the air and water. Among them, the Bhalswa and Ghaz...

New Delhi Suffocates as Toxic Smoke from Landfill Fire Engulfs the City

New Delhi is engulfed in hazardous fumes as a massive fire erupts at the Ghazipur landfill, exacerbating the city's chronic air pollution crisis. The blaze, which started on Sunday, releases dangerou...

Lightning strike causes explosion in Oxfordshire recycling plant

A lightning strike caused an explosion at a food waste recycling plant, which lit up Oxfordshire’s night sky on the evening of Monday, October 2. Furthermore, the event took place at the Cassington...

Purdue Geotechnical Society’s 19th G.A Leonards Lecture now on YouTube

Professor Krishna Reddy gave the 19th G.A. Leonards Lecture on “Sustainability and Resiliency-Based Innovation: Research and Practices in Geoenvironmental Engineering”, which was hosted by the Purdue...