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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policy on environment: On May 18, the Union cabinet approved the controversial National Environment Policy. The sanction came after much dithering and after the daft made several rounds of the prime
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Tar balls
A new form of carbon pollution
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Boron suckers
Plants to clean up toxic soil
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disaster management bill: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil recently introduced the Disaster Management Bill, 2005 in the Rajya Sabha. It is considered a major step towards streamlining mitigation
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Net loss
Process to regularise marine assessments delayed
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Clean power
Scientists produce electricity from compressed gas
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Just bend it
Pollution under control tests for diesel vehicles are a big farce
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Lead Alert
A unique map of India is in the process of being put together
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Silver lining
Rules abate mercury pollution
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No WMD, only pollution
The un Environment Programme (unep) has said thousands of contaminated industrial and military sites left over from wars in Iraq must urgently be cleaned up to stop further harm to health and