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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Gull Sets Arctic Pollution Record for Birds
A small Arctic gull has set a record as the bird most contaminated by two banned industrial pollutants, scientists said on Thursday. Eggs of the ivory gull, which has a population of about 14,000 from Siberia to Canada, were found to have the highest known concentrations of PCBs, long used in products such as paints or plastics, and the pesticide DDT. "Environmental poisons are threatening ivory gulls," the Norwegian Polar Institute said in a statement of eggs collected off northern Norway and Russia. "Levels of PCB and DDT are higher in ivory gulls than in other Arctic seabirds."
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California Air Board Says There's Dollars in Green
California's landmark legislation to cut carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 will help the state's economy in the long run, according to a report issued Wednesday by the state agency charg
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Stressed plants produce Aspirin
Washington: Aspirin is among the most popular remedies used by people. Turns out some plants like it, too. Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research were surprised to discover that stressed plants produce an aspirin-like chemical that can be detected in the air above the plants. The chemical may be a sort of immune response that helps protect the plants, the scientists said.
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The global water situation
Water is not distributed evenly over the globe. Fewer than 10 countries possess 60% of the world's available fresh water supply: Brazil, Russia, China, Canada, Indonesia, U.S., India, Columbia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, local variations within countries can be highly significant. Less than 3% of the world's water is fresh - the rest is seawater and undrinkable.
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Pollution May Hit Himalayan Monsoon Clouds - Study
Higher levels of pollution in Asia may affect the formation of clouds high in the Himalayas, perhaps disrupting monsoons and speeding a thaw of glaciers, according to a study on Monday.
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Light pollution: An emergent threat to health and ecosystem
The immediate past century saw an unprecedented advancement in science and technology and an acceleration of economic well being. At the same time it also experienced an ever more polluted world, specially an ever-increasing environmental pollution which has emerged as a major global concern for the very survival of human beings as well as all other life forms and the balance of ecosystem.
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Pollution threatens Himalayas rain formation in NE
The array of green valleys along the mighty Himalayas including that of North East might look enchanting.
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Informing efficient and effective solid waste management to improve local environmental quality and public health
This paper employ the choice experiment method to estimate residents
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Pasakha The pollution capital?
Smoke billowing from the roofs of industries in Pasakha have caught the attention of commuters along the Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway, which is now routed through the Pasakha-Manitar road.
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Union governments have failed to opt for organic farming, says Minister
Inaugural sale: Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan makes the first purchase at the SKC Road branch of Green Shop in Erode on Friday. Beside her is organic farming scientist G. Nammalvar.