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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UK wildlife becoming the living dead
While the UN is celebrating the international year of biodiversity conservation groups in the UK worry that a rising number of isolated populations are in danger of becoming extinct. Biodiversity is in decline in the UK.
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Oil spills as barge drowns in Hooghly
A pusher tug, a small barge that propels a bigger vessel, drowned in the Hooghly near Prinsep Ghat on Friday night, releasing oil into the river.
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Village communities and panchayats fight pollution and displacement
In the course of a visit to about 25 villages located in four districts of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, the author came across several examples of village communities coming together to fight pollution and displacement. In some cases a leading role has been played by elected village pradhans.
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Tourism in protected areas: Worsening prospects for Tigers?
Against the backdrop of the increasing popularity of ecotourism and the dramatic loss of tigers due to lack of funding, mismanagement, population and development pressures as well as poaching, this article finds that the present policies benefit neither conservation nor local communities.
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Scanner on coal firm
Ranchi, March 23: A coal mining company that supplies the precious mineral from Pakur to Punjab for production of electricity invited the wrath of both the Opposition and the treasury bench today for allegedly violating pollution and transport norms.
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Blowhole dolphin population rising
PARADIP: The population of blowhole dolphin, declared as an endangered species, has recorded a gradual rise at Mahanadi river mouth in Paradip. Though no census has yet been carried out by the Forest of Fishery Department, it is estimated that there are about 150 porpoises on the Paradip coast, officials sources.
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3 months on, GMADA awaits clearance from pollution board
Almost three months after conducting a public hearing for Mohali
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Quepem, Curchorem locals assured on halt in mining traffic till April 10
Curchorem MLA Shyam Satardekar and Quepem MLA Babu Kavlekar have assured residents of Quepem and Curchorem that mining traffic plying via Quepem and Curchorem will remain off the road till April 10. They were addressing the people gathered during the rasta roko agitation at Tilamoll-Quepem on Monday.
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Iron, manganese contents have increased due to mining: Parrikar
Opposition Leader Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday stated that iron and manganese contents have increased drastically in the atmosphere due to the mining activity around the Salaulim project. He was addressing the gathering at a meeting organized at Curchorem to find a solution over ongoing mining traffic issue.
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Bullets are not the answer
We cannot say that development-related issues are long term while the immediate task is to annihilate the Naxalites