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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Campaign in many Avatars
New Delhi, Feb. 9: Vedanta Resources is under fire from heaven and earth, and even Hollywood has been asked to join in. Tribal rights campaigner Survival International has appealed to Avatar director James Cameron, through an advertisement in US entertainment magazine Variety, to help it stop the company from mining for bauxite in an Orissa forest.
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Ecohealth works: environmental pollution
Environmental pollutants from many different sources contaminate water, air, and land, putting humans and ecosystems at risk, and often pitting people against industry. By viewing competing interests and their implications within a broad ecosystem analysis, ecohealth approaches strive to protect health while balancing the needs of various stakeholders and
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BSL pulled up on pollution front
DHENKANAL: The Rehabilitation and Peripheral Development Advisory Committee (RPDAC) yesterday rejected the request of Bhusan Steel Limited (BSL) to construct an ash pond in Nimidha village and asked it to go for afforestation around BSL to check pollution.
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Treatment plant to ease pollution woes
Solan: With the Ministry of Commerce according its principle approval to Rs 60 crore Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) for the industrial hub of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) at a meeting in Delhi today, the pollution woes of the area would be eased.
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Industrial clusters to be re-verified
The 88 industrial clusters identified by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) will be re-verified for the amount of pollution they generate, on the basis of which they will be re-rated.
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China fights pollution with 20m fish that eat up algae
Shanghai: Authorities in eastern China have said they will release 20 million algae-eating fish into one of the nation
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Vedanta project: people say no, official record says yes
Though people oppose refinery expansion, officials record their statements as favourable for project
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Institute to investigate cancer hotspot in Czech Republic
The Czech Republic
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Whither imperatives of environmental justice?
The disproportionate distribution of environmental risks among the population is known as environmental justice, environmental equity or at some instance environmental racism. All these terms in fact define the status that the poor suffer greater exposure to environmental pollution than other communities.