Plastic overshoot day report 2024
Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day
Pollution
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India
• Kochi has been selected as one of the centres for a major study, undertaken by the US-based Oakridge National Laboratory, to measure the phenomenon of global warming. • An
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Planting risk
Belgaum sponge iron plant disregards closure notices
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Water, water everywhere
Indian mills continue to waste water resources
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ORDER ON TAJ
The Supreme Court has directed "The Commission Management Board' of the Uttar Pradeh government headed by its chief secretary to appear before it and explain why the court's order relating to the
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Money for monitoring
at a time when pollution levels in Delhi have reached alarming levels, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, which monitors pollution in the capital, says that it has neither the money nor
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Dying lake
if sustained restoration plans are not put in place, the beautiful Kodaikanal lake will be dead soon. The artificial lake on a 26-hectare marshy land has been utterly neglected and is fast
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Green conflict
DEVELOPMENT has two sides, as Sudipto Sarkar of the People United for Better Living in Calcutta told the Calcutta High Court recently. The court is hearing a case against the proposed reclamation
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More dirt on GAP
The much-hyped sewage treatment plants installed in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, under the Ganga Action Plan are proving to be ineffective. A report released in October states that the irrigation water supplied from these steps to villages located in the area i
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Decongestion directive
The Supreme Court (sc) has told the Delhi government to rid the capital of traffic congestion. In this regard, the state authorities have been instructed to control the number of vehicles plying on
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Church risk
From candles and incense