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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Our vanishing night
Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky, where it's not wanted, instead of focusing it downward, where it is. Ill-designed lighting washes out the darkness of night and radically alters the light levels
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Pollution clouds threaten glaciers, health: UN
A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the UN reported Thursday.
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Volkswagen Diesel Car Wins "Green Car of the Year"
A clean-burning diesel sedan, Volkswagen AG's Jetta TDI, won the "Green Car of the Year" award at the Los Angeles auto show on Thursday, the first time a diesel-powered car has taken the industry's top environmental honor. "This signals that clean diesel has arrived," said Ron Cogan, editor of Green Car Journal, the trade magazine that awards the prize.
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Pollution a threat to dev
Speakers at a seminar yesterday expressed concern over high level of natural and man-made environmental pollution. They said water, air, soil and noise pollution, and radiation pose great threat to long-term development effort in the country.
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Up to their necks in it
Despite good laws and even better intentions, India causes as much pollution as any rapidly industrialising poor country A HEREDITARY Hindu priest, Veer Bhadra Mishra is wont, shortly after sunrise, to totter down the stone steps of his temple to the Ganges river, and there perform a three-part ritual. He touches the sacred water. He dips himself in it. He cups it in his hands and drinks it.
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Reducing pollution good for profit
Companies will find it makes sense to reduce pollution and adopt good governance
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Taxing polluters
Without question, public interest is frightfully undermined in a state where law enforcers themselves largely subvert the rule of law. On the face of it, India has an ironclad legal structure to combat any threat to the environment: as many as 420 Acts, rules, notifications and provisos have been legislated to safeguard the environment and prosecute the polluter.
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Implementing agencies responsible for curbing pollution: Joshi
Chairman of the Goa Pollution Control Board, Dr L U Joshi has said it has become a fashion to point fingers at the Board for pollution when implementing agencies created under various Legislations are responsible to curb the same.
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Pollution, dirt may put spoke in states tourism wheel: UNWTO
Bathinda: In its tourism development master plan report submitted to the Government last month, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (WTO) has warned that the perception of health risks due to dirt and pollution could spoil state
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Peoples nod for ferrochrome plant
DHENKANAL: Locals and people