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Recently, the Government has identified 130 wetlands for priority restoration in the next five years and asked states to submit their respective...
07 Sep 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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The Union government in a bid to free India of single-use plastics by 2022, has laid out a multi-ministerial plan to discourage the use of single-use...
05 Sep 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Svalbard: Fastest Warming Town on the Earth
Svalbard located in Norway is facing extreme consequences of climate change. It is the result of rising sea level of Arctic sea due to Global...
04 Sep 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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According to the report “Reducing Food Loss and Waste” by the World Resources Institute (WRI), uneaten food is impacting the economy and...
03 Sep 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Environmental Conservation with Grassroot Governance
The article is based on A Bottom-Up Approach to Conservation that was published in The Hindu on 26 August. It talks about the interweaving relation...
02 Sep 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Australia Downgrades Great Barrier Reef to 'Very Poor' Status
Australia has downgraded the Great Barrier Reef's long-term outlook to "Very Poor" for the first time. Coral along large swathes of the...
31 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Recently the teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg after completing her 15-day journey across the Atlantic via Zero-emission yacht urged...
30 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Recently, a study done by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune has revealed that, during El Nino years, pollutants from south Asian...
29 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Study to Check Antibiotic Resistance in Ganga
The government has commissioned a study to assess the microbial diversity across the entire 2,500 km stretch of river Ganga, and test for the...
29 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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India is facing a severe problem of land degradation ie. soil becoming unfit for cultivation. About 29% or about 96.4 million hectares are considered...
28 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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The Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel has launched the commencement of work for 10th City Gas Distribution (CGD) bidding round which...
27 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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According to the data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the Amazon Forests in Brazil has experienced 74,155 fires since...
23 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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According to the World Bank Report - Quality Unknown: The Invisible Water Crisis, heavily polluted water is reducing economic growth by up to a third...
22 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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India - Largest Emitter of Sulphur Dioxide
According to a report by Greenpeace (an environmental Non-Governmental Organization), India is the largest emitter of Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) in the...
20 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Discovery India and World Wide Fund (WWF) India have partnered with the Government of West Bengal and local communities in the Sundarban to help save...
19 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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BASIC Meeting on Climate Change
The BASIC countries held their 28th ministerial meeting on Climate Change from 14th to 16th August 2019 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The countries...
19 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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First Monument in Memory of a Glacier
Iceland honours the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change. A bronze plaque was unveiled in a ceremony to mark Okjokull...
19 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Recently, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-India), in collaboration with the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) conducted dragonfly census and...
17 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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The study conducted by scientists at Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute and Switzerland’s Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research has...
16 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Plastic manufacturers, in a recent meeting with government, have called for export promotion schemes for Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in...
16 Aug 2019 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
