Climate change in India
World Environment Day: Business of lip service to environment
June 5, 2021
As you observe the World Environment Day, consider this. Each year, about 1.5 billion tyres are burnt around the world, leading to severe pollution. Nearly 91 pc of the 313 million tonnes of plastic produced in 2019 ended up in landfills or the ocean. In the same year, 53.6 milli...
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Earth Day: Eight states in eastern India highly vulnerable to climate change
April 22, 2021
A recent report, jointly prepared by Indian Institutes of Technology Mandi and Guwahati, as well as the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc) says that in 2019 and 2020, eight states namely, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh an...
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Superheroes to battle climate change
May 30, 2019
The world has come a full circle in the four years since the Paris Agreement to fight climate change was signed during Cop21 in December 2015. At the end of the fortnight-long meeting, environmentalists all around the globe cheered as the world emerged stronger and more confident...
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