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 …
Pune: Unlike the grand roadshows and rallies organised by most political parties to seek votes, 43-year-old Anand Vanjape, in the fray for the Pune Lok Sabha seat election as an independent, cycles 60 km everyday to reach out to the voters with an agenda to make the city pollution-free. Vanjape, …
A senator, Magnus Abe (APC, Rivers), has blamed the slow pace of the proposed clean-up exercise in the oil-rich Ogoni land in Rivers State on insecurity. He said this while addressing journalists on Thursday. He said no meaningful clean-up exercise could take place in Ogoni land at the moment due …
Nearly 2,000 Zambian villagers have the right to sue mining company Vedanta in the English courts, the Supreme Court in London said on Wednesday. India-listed Vedanta, which delisted from London last year but maintains a legal base in Britain, appealed a lower-court ruling that a case in which villagers alleged …
Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has declared a total ban on all single-use plastic carrier bags with effect from June 1, this year, a statement from the Prime Minister's Information and Communication Unit said on Wednesday. The statement said Majaliwa announced the total ban on all single-use plastic carrier bags …
Whoever is elected, he will have the responsibility of addressing these pressing issues and if past elections are any indication, DMK’s A Raja could have an edge. COIMBATORE : Mention of the Nilgiris evokes thoughts of cool climate, wildlife and greenery. Reality, however, is one of environmental pollution, encroachments on …
KOLKATA: In the last five years, 43 MPs from West Bengal, cutting across political parties, have asked barely 197 environment-related questions in the parliament. Seventeen MPs have not asked a single question in five years despite many of them representing areas of high environmental or climate impacts. Representatives of major …
Royal Dutch Shell last year experienced a sharp rise in the number of oil spills caused by pipeline theft in Nigeria, which the company said were the result of larger output and higher oil prices. The number of spills caused by sabotage and theft in the Niger delta rose last …
There would be impact on these employees as well as auxiliary units, too. The spectre of permanent closure hangs over nearly 150 units in India’s largest ceramic cluster near Morbi town in Gujarat due to a recent order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to shut all these units that …
Koeberg Nuclear Power Station released radioactive waste into the environment in three separate incidents in 2014 and 2015, but the quantities were "negligible" and fell under the threshold that would have made it necessary to notify the public, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has said in a Parliamentary reply. Gordhan …
A Dutch inventor has developed a “cow toilet” he says will stop pollution from cow urine at its source and avoid damaging the environment. Using the device, Henk Hanskamp claims he could cut half the ammonia produced by cows urinating onto pastures. It has already proved successful in small-scale tests, …
Ghana plans to replace its polluting "trotro" buses and formalise waste collection in slums as part of a new plan to help its crowded capital withstand climate change and disasters. The West African country on Thursday became the second in the region after Senegal to launch a plan to help …
The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 3% in 2018 as pollution from the energy sector continued to decrease, provisional government figures show. Emissions of the gases that drive climate change have fallen for six years in a row, and are 44% below the 1990 baseline for the UK. Emissions of …
Eskom's pollution has been linked to premature deaths in Mpumalanga and Gauteng, an environmental organisation has charged. Data from Greenpeace suggests that pollution caused by Eskom's coal power plants in Mpumalanga is linked to 2 100 premature deaths every year. Greenpeace released two reports on Wednesday, March 20: An updated …
Avoiding threats from climate change and pollution will require Asia's booming cities to become much more efficient in their use of energy resources, delegates at a city development conference said on Thursday. Asia is home to 15 out of the world's 20 biggest cities, and the United Nations estimates another …
China aims to cut solid waste imports to zero by next year as it looks to reduce pollution and encourage recyclers to treat soaring volumes of domestic trash, a senior environment ministry official said on Thursday. Since the 1980s, China has taken in hundreds of millions of tonnes of foreign …
Nila Madhab Panda, one of the most vocal filmmakers on environmental issues, is making his next film on Delhi’s pollution. The short film is a part of Interdependence, a project that features an anthology of 11 films, in which each film is dedicated to raise awareness on the environment and …
CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC) has called upon people of the city to abdicate polythene use for the sake of protecting environment of the city. Member secretary, TC Nautiyal who was invited to address people from different cross section in a brain storming session held on the issue of …
KOLKATA: The muted symptoms of pancreatic cancer — that claimed the life of Goa CM Manohar Parrikar on Sunday — make it one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Though it is relatively rare in India (less than 1% of all cancer patients suffer from it), incidence of pancreatic cancer …
Normally, when students bunk school, parents and teachers are up in arms against it. So it was quite unusual then when hundreds of students from dozens of schools across Delhi and Gurgaon decided to bunk their classes, they were not only supported, but in some cases even chaperoned by their …
African countries should embark on a radical policy reorientation to encourage investments in renewable energy sources and boost their resilience to climate change, campaigners said on Thursday. Mithika Mwenda, secretary general of Nairobi-based Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance, said policy reforms, combined with visionary leadership, is key to reducing reliance on …
