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 …
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 …
"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 …
Analysis of over 100 effluent, sludge and soil samples from industrial sites in New Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu indicate the presence of more than the permissible levels of POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants). POPs
Over the last three months, nearly 10,000 auto-rickshaws have been taken off the roads of Ahmedabad, ostensibly to check pollution within the city. As a result, many auto-rickshaw drivers were rendered jobless and have remained so till date. According to civic authorities, the impounded auto-rickshaws used to mix kerosene with …
crew members on the American space shuttle Columbia may have been at a loss when a tethered satellite broke free and drifted away. But for Robert J Charlson, an atmospheric scientist with the University of Washington, Seattle, the aborted mission was a blessing in disguise. The astronauts now had the …
The English said it before. And the Australians have said it now. But the fact remains that New Delhi continues to display its polluted profile to visiting cricketers, so much so that the Australian cricket team has vowed not to have the capital city in its itinerary as a future …
A 17-month air analysis in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, which ended recently, has found that lead pollution is the highest in the world here during the low-rain period. The analyis, carried out by scientists of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), states that during the months of November, December and January, …
startling expressions of possible environmental degradation have been found in Minnesota, us . Deformed frogs have been seen in more than 100 sites in 54 of Minnesota's counties. At a recent conference of scientists convened by the Environmental Protection Agency ( epa ) in Duluth, Minnesota, the recurring thought was …
a new study conducted on 212 children in Michigan, us , has revealed that exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls ( pcb ), a common pollutant, while in their mothers' womb has led to a modest lowering of their intelligence quotient ( iq ) level. Most of these 11-year-old children in the …
china could soon pip us to become the world's largest air polluter, observes a recent report of the Worldwatch Institute, an international environment research group. It has already outstripped us in the consumption of steel, coal, fertilisers and grain and is gaining ground in the production of carbon dioxide. Statistics …
an amendment to the Danish law of environmental protection stipulates as of June, 1996, that foreign countries about to buy shut-down and potentially dangerous industrial plants, must receive full information about their environmental consequences. The law does not ban the transfer of such technology. It merely stipulates that authorities in …
the best way to ascertain whether or not manufacturers are complying with pollution laws related to toxic hazardous metals, is to monitor what comes out of their smokestacks. Till now, scientists have been periodically monitoring emissions by studying samples from these factories in their laboratories. A study at source is …
Henceforth, all cases relating to pollution pending with the Supreme Court of India, will be dealt by the high courts of the respective states. This was decided by the apex court in a ruling given last month. The judges also transferred a case involving tanneries in the North Arcot district …
