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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Getting away with pollution
The recent exercise of expanding the list of polluting industries has come under flak as industries already on the list get away with defaulting
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A clean ideal
An ambitious UN project to achieve a zero emissions industrial utopia takes off
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Here, not there
A new atlas classifies some districts into zones based on their ability to absorb pollution
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At a cost
Information on pollution will now be available at a price in Japan
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Polluter lands behind bars
In a judicial first, a District Court in New Zealand has imprisoned a person for disobeying orders of the Environment Court. William Victor George Conway was sentenced to three months of imprisonment
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A not very subtle environmental message
Cheluvi, Girish Karnad's film on a young woman who could change herself at will into a champak tree, contains an effective environmental message.
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Flawed but valued
THF use of live clues to monitor changes in the environment is probably the simplest definition of biomonitoring. In the above sense, it is a rather traditional practice. It has, however, proved to
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Study finds sperm count decreasing worldwide
Scientists cannot explain why both the quality and quantity of sperm have been dropping since the 1940s. Indications are pollutants may be responsible.
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A lead from the past
Evidence trawled from lake sediments in Sweden traces atmospheric lead pollution back to more than 2 millennia
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Caught out
Fishing leads to fishy genes