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 …
europeans will continue to be exposed to significant levels of dioxin caused by the disposal of scrap cars, despite a proposed legislation agreed by the European Union ( eu ) Commission. The Commission has dropped plans to include in the legislation the provision for phasing out of polyvinylchloride, ( pvc) …
a huge stockpile of lethal waste has been discovered next to the 2000 Olympics site in Sydney which is contaminated with poisonous dioxins. Greepeace, the international green group, has found shocking levels of dioxins, almost 60 times higher than the levels produced by the world's first major dioxin accident in …
ENVIRONMENTALISTS from Japan and other Countries are protesting against a government -funded dike, which has dried out the Isahaya wetlands in the Nagasaki Prefecture. The once-thriving wet-lands have turned into a muddy cesspool containing dead sea organisms. Government officials say that the dike is necessary to reclaim land, control view …
in an unprecedented move , the Spanish court recently sent a factory owner to prison for causing damage to the environment. For the first time in Europe, such a sentence has been awarded on environmental grounds. The factory owner, Jose Puignero, who owns textile firms in northeastern Spain, was sentenced …
In answer to queries whether it was not too early for conceiving a project like the one in question, Anil Agarwal, the Centre for Science and Environment's director, had pointed out that it was, in fact, late. The Green Rating Project should have begun with liberalisation
A cyanide spill in the Guijiang river near Wuzhou city in southwestern Guangxi province recently resulted in the death of a large number of fish in the river and suspension of water supply by some local water companies. The spill occurred when a truck carrying 10 tonnes of cyanide fell …
FREDERICK NORONHA PANAJI years of environmental campaigning in the country's smallest state seems to have made some dent: politicians here are willing to concede that the environment is a matter of concern. The Goan chief minister, Pratapsing Rane, while presenting the 1997 budget in the last week of March, repeatedly …
On the Comptroller and Auditor General's (cag) report tabled in the Karnataka Assembly in 1996, which identified 10,888 polluting industries in the state (till March 1995): In 1992, some of the industries were exempted (from seeking environmental clearance), under the exempted category of non-polluting industries, which meant that we could …
IT MAY have been slow in coming, but now a definite respect for green tax measures can be discerned in the developed world, especially in the US. A recent survey of state environmental tax provisions by the Centre for Global Change (CGC), US, has revealed that various states have enacted …
lightning could be primarily responsible for global warming, as it produces a quarter of the planet's concentration of nitrogen oxides (nox), according to a recent study conducted by Colin Price and his team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, us (New Scientist, Vol 153, No 2066). The high …
The peppered moth has typically white-coloured wings, finely speckled with black. But in the first half of the 19th century, virtually all peppered moths had entirely black wings
Notwithstanding accusations and criticism within state government agencies themselves, for almost two decades units at the Ankleshwar industrial estate were functioning without drainage connections, releasing effluents onto open grounds all around. For the last two decades, untreated effluents from industrial units at Ankleshwar and Panoli are being released into the …
The damage that textile production causes to the environment has been a bone of contention for environmentalists. Pollutants from textile production (zinc, sulphides or copper salts) are non bio-degradable. But now, a French fashion designer, Olivier Lapidus, is all set to launch a collection of clothes made from eco-friendly fibres …
on january 6, the Gujarat High Court (ghc) formulated a plan to set up an environment audit scheme to tackle the menace of pollution in the state. The proposed audits would be conducted by the Gujarat pollution control board (gpcb) and would primarily apply to two categories of effluent discharging …
"your well-documented account of the circumstances which led to your contracting Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma was moving. It is particularly sad that you should be the one affected as you have been in the forefront of the environment movement and have opened our eyes with reference to the damage we are causing …
In a recent move, more than 20,000 environmental officials have started a combing operation all over China to inspect factories and close down errant units after the State Council or the cabinet issued an edict in end 1996 to step up environmental protection. Till recently, China has shut down almost …
Having gained much ground in recent months, the country's environmentalists are trying hard to enforce tougher environmental laws. The National Environment Protection Agency (nepa) is planning to stop approvals for new industrial plants that are likely to release high levels of waste. "The government is shifting emphasis from the old …
the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) has refuted some findings of the latest Greenpeace report regarding the chlorine industry. It has questioned the claims made by the report that the waste water discharge from a Delhi-based chlor-alkali plant contained a high concentration of mercury during investigations in May last year. …
at an exhibition on air pollution in India's metros organised by the Centre for Science and Environment in Delhi, the Danish development journalist Knud Vilby asked a question: Why did Delhi have a heavier vehicular pollution load, when it had lesser population than either Bombay or Calcutta? The answer lies …
THE oil sardine (Sardinella longiceps) a brilliantly coloured fish dear to the palate of Keralites and once the poor man's cheap source of protein has become scarce. One sardine today costs Rs 3.00; two decades ago a single rupee bought 100 sardines. Over-exploitation and environmental pollution have reduced the total …
