The fabled white marble of the world’s greatest monument to love is becoming discoloured by pollution LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/GETTYIt is one of the seven wonders of the modern world, famed for its resplendent white marble, but India’s Supreme Court has voiced alarm that years of pollution damage have begun to turn the Taj Mahal green. The court castigated the government’s failure to halt the discolouration of the great 17th-century mausoleum, in northern India and urged officials to seek foreign help if India could not care for its biggest tourist attraction by itself. Environmentalists asked the court to intervene after spotting sections of the marble turning green and brown, thought to be the result of decades of worsening air pollution, construction fumes and damage from insect dung. The fabled tomb in Agra, which welcomes up to eight million visitors a year, had already faded…

Source: The Times May 02, 2018 10:52 UTC