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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Polluters take a fall
Heavy polluters have to pay heavy fines. Truck manufacturers realise this the hard way
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Coral conservation will make us wealthier
every other day, one comes across studies that are testimony to corals dying across the world. Most of us do not bother to ponder over the implications of this loss, thinking that corals are mere
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Toxic trap
Village Chipri in Kolhapur, Maharashtra is fighting: diseases, a factory and lax authorities
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Illegal quarries in Goa rapped
bombay High Court in Goa has asked the state government to initiate immediate action against owners and operators of all illegal basalt quarries in the state and against government officials
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Is the Babudom reformed?
Administrative Reforms
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Setback for Newmont Mining Corporation
An Indonesian court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the Newmont Mining Corporation against the New York Times over pollution accusations made in the paper. The lawsuit was filed in the Central
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Ailing Aligarh
Uttar Pradesh pollution control board chief sidesteps Supreme Courtorder
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In Short
kids at risk: Many Indian children who are constantly exposed to pesticides have serious disorders: severely impaired analytical and judgement abilities, motor skills, concentration and memory. This
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Wild disruption
Even low concentrations of pollutants can alter animal behaviour
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Strange
Polluting units in Ahmedabad get pollution board s support