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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Smoke enveloped
Hundreds of forest fires in the dry jungles of Malaysia, Indonesia's Sumatra island and Singapore have put a thick blanket of smoke over many Southeast Asian cities. Although a little less in
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India decides to ratify POPs
On October 20, 2005, the Indian government finally gave its approval to ratify and accede to the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (pops). The move came after months of dithering
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Bytes
All-rounder: Installing filters on diesel engines is not only more expensive, but also worse for the environment than switching to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). A paper by Eric Johnson, a
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Where are the boys?
Pollution has allegedly tipped the gender balance in the Chemical Valley community, living among chemical plants in southwest Ontario, Canada. A review of Aamjiwnaang First Nation birth records,
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Need to change course
Emissions of the shipping sector are extremely high
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Good shot
Apex court committee penalises chemical plant
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Gross violation
Serious violations of environmental norms by pesticide manufacturers came to our notice through this shocking account by researchers from the department of zoology, Delhi University. They visited
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Ice shield
Amajor breakthrough has been achieved in the efforts to tackle environmental emergencies in Antarctica. At the 28th conference on the Antarctica Treaty, which concluded in Stockholm, Sweden on June
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Fatal bearing
Birds in the US have deformed beaks due to pollution
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Will this work?
Polluters assigned the task of disaster management in Gujarat