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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EPA results show massive pollution
The latest results from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) mobile air quality monitoring station continue to present a bleak picture for road users in Lahore. Babar Zaheer, an EPA official, said the station continuously monitored levels of respirable dust, ozone, non-methane hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides from a van parked at Yateem Khana, Multan Road between 2pm on July 23 to 3pm on July 24.
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Discharge of Industrial Waste into Streams
Majithia heads panel, to report in 7 days As discharge of industrial waste into streams water of which is used for drinking has become a burning issue in the state, Punjab government has set up a committee in this regard. Bikram Singh Majithia minister for science, technology and environment will head the panel and submit a report in a week.
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'Nature impacts health'
Bangalore, DHNS: : Environmentalist A N Yellappa Reddy, on Sunday, said that nature has great impact on human health. Life in forests, where rate of pollution is less, is healthy and peaceful. However, those living in highly polluted areas have serious problems.
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Uproar at Pilgao over illegal mining activities
BICHOLIM, JULY 27
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400 Years Of Dhaka : Dense, dirty, dying Dhaka
Lying on a bed at the labour unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), Rita Begum is indeed very happy and proud. She has become mother of an angel like baby girl. The child is now safe under her mother's observant eyes. But how will she grow up in a city of pollution, over population and traffic mismanagement?
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Doubt is their product: how industry's assault on science threatens your health
In Doubt Is Their Product, author David Michaels explains how many of the scientists who spun science for tobacco have become practitioners in the lucrative world of product defense. Whatever the story- global warming, toxic chemicals, sugar and obesity, secondhand smoke- these scientists generate studies designed to make dangerous exposures appear harmless.
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Concrete facts: the life cycle of the Indian cement industry
Concrete Facts is the result of an exhaustive two year effort to rate the cement industry. It details the industry's ecological challenges and rates how well Indian companies address them. Companies are
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Mileage: environmental rating of Indian automobile sector
In-depth Life Cycle Analysis of the environmental performance of major players in the Indian automobile sector. Also analyses technological issues, comaprative analysis of best practices with global players and recommends future outlook.
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Environmental rating of Indian caustic-chlorine sector
An exhaustive life cycle analysis of players in the Indian caustic chlorine sector and its impact on environment. Deals extensively with the alarming issue of mercy pollution, its deadly effects. A comparative study with the global scenario.
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The fight for survival: people's action for environment
The main purpose of this book is to bring to the reader an idea of the nature of the struggles being waged to individuals and voluntary groups across the world, and especially in India, to protect the environment.