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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The controversy over the use of polluting coal by industries in the Taj Trapezium Zone in Agra has assumed political overtones. Local politicians are siding with the industrialists to stall the
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HP village plugs hydel project
In an unprecedented development, the members of a gram sabha in Himachal Pradesh exercised rights conferred on them under the fifth schedule of the Constitution and disallowed the Rs 7,759 crore Karcham Wangtoo Hydroelectric Power Project
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Running a farm
Farm forestry can overcome the raw material scare
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Sounding an alarm
according to a study conducted by the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board, many cities in Rajasthan including the state capital, Jaipur are facing severe noise pollution. Even the
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The world's first solar-powered aircraft, Helios, has made a world altitude record. It reached 24.7 km, five hours and 16 minutes after its launch from the us navy's Pacific Missile Range
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Pollute thy neighbour
Recent efforts by China to build more coal-fired power plants is reversing years of improvements in controlling pollution. And that's not all. Neighbouring countries, too, have to suffer the
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Henceforth, all cases relating to pollution pending with the Supreme Court of India, will be dealt by the high courts of the respective states. This was decided by the apex court in a ruling given
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SUV ads: Dangerous city animals
If an alligator could drive, what vehicle would it choose to go to a party? None other than the Tata Safari.The query in the latest Tata Safari spot echoes the What would Jesus drive? line from us anti suv sport utility vehicle messages; it undercuts
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Science is a disqualifier
Pollution control boards remain hot seats for babus
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Update
The Goa State Pollution Control Board has directed Jain Udyog Pvt Ltd, a sponge iron plant operating at Sanvordem in south Goa, to shift its unit after taking appropriate consent from the board.