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 is projected to occur on September 5th. Each country has its own Plastic Overshoot Day, which is determined by …
INDIA loses about US $80 billion every year on account of sickness and death from pollution and economic costs attributable to resource degradation, says the World Bank's annual Environmental Review. The loss due to poor environment is pegged in excess of US $20 billion a year by conventional calculations, and …
If a team of US researchers at Cornell University, New York are to be believed. 40 per cent of all deaths world-wide is due to environmental pollution. Global warming could worsen this scenario, they say. David Pimentel and 11 graduate students investigated the relationship. Between increasing pollution levels and' population …
Catano in Puerto Rico is a small town inhabited by some 35,000 people. But in an ordinary sunny day, hardly any children are seen playing in the streets, and many houses bear a deserted look. Welcome to the poorest and also the most polluted city of the country. Two power …
TOXIC industrial chemicals have been discovered in the tissues of whales that normally feed in the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Even though the quantities found may not be harmful, their findings show how far the chemicals have penetrated the ocean's food chain. The chemicals found are the polybrominated …
The Delhi high court has issued notices to the Central Pollution Control Board, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Delhi Development Authority and the Police Commissioner in a petition regarding pollution caused by burning of human hair by hair traders in Jwalapuri, west Delhi. A division bench comprising justice Y K Sabharwal …
STOCKHOLM. Delhi. Two cities. But two very different cultures. One clean. And the other dirty as hell. And the difference is not just in the physical condition. It is also in the mind-set. One doesn't want to live in dirt and filth. And the other just wallows in it. Since …
CONSERVATIONISTS in the UK plan to use explosions and gunfire to scare migrant birds away from parts of a wintering site poisoned by an environmental disaster. They will lay down food in less polluted areas of a Spanish nature reserve that is home to thousands of birds flying south from …
The Pakistani ministry of environment & urban affairs is likely to prepare a roster of experts on persistent organic pollutants {POPs) to keep a watch over their effects on human health. Although the country has put a ban on import of POPs, these pollutants find a way into the agricultural …
SCIENTISTS will soon launch a study on polar bears to determine how chemical pollutants are affecting their health. Researchers from the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) in Tromsoe, have planned to investigate the effect of high concentrations of polychlori-nated biphenyls (PCBS) and the pesticide dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT) on the immune systems …
On how she began her research about pollutants in the environment: My main interest has been in child neurology. I was interested in this area because a large number of children in Delhi are exposed to lead. When we have lead in low levels in the blood, that is around …
when it comes to disclosing environmental performances, Indian companies take a back seat. The Bhopal gas tragedy is an extreme example of a company being responsible for the death of thousands of innocent people. Had the company disclosed its environmental status beforehand, the crisis could have been averted. However, despite …
Nature means life. It also means death. Whether it means life or death depends on the quality of nature. And whereas progress can greatly enhance our ability to fight disease, it also has the extraordinary ability to degrade the quality of nature and increase the load of disease. Soil degradation …
high levels of plutonium has been found in sediments at the end of Sellafield nuclear discharge pipeline. It even exceeds plutonium contamination levels found in the sea at Russia's Novaya Zemlya nuclear weapons test site, according to Greenpeace. Sellafield which is operated by the state-owned British Nuclear Fuels ( bnfl …
polar bear cubs have been found with severe deformities in the Norwegian Arctic territory. Pollution levels are known to be high in this region. Researchers have found some of the bears with both male and female sex organs. Such deformities may be due to exposure of polychlorinated biphenyl chemicals ( …
PEOPLE in India have by and large been ignorant of pollution and have remained unconcerned about environmental issues. But the problems of pollution forced residents of Delhi to look up and ask whether pollution in the city has been affecting their health? The answer they received recently was strange, to …
There has been an alarming rise in cases of childhood cancers in the last two decades. According to reports in Environmental Health Perspectives and The Ecologist, this has been attributed to several environmental factors - prominent among them being the high levels of chemical pollutants in the environment. A number …
High-pressure gas refrigerants leaking from the cooling systems that chill supermarket display cases are a major source of environmental pollution, according to engineers at the University of Illinois, USA, who think that they might have a solution at hand. Predrag Hrnjak, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and a …
the book explains how farming, in its modern avatar, has acquired the dubious distinction of becoming a major polluter from its benign position of an activity in harmony with nature. The book describes how this scenario has changed. Agriculture, which was once bereft of pollution, is now an environmental risk. …
