Environment

Back in 2012, the capital city Delhi decided to solve one of its biggest environmental problems of waste disposal by burning the garbage to produce electricity. The 200 ft giant mountain of trash on the eastern side of Delhi, famously called the Ghazipur landfill, was to be incinerated safely. This incineration was planned in...

COP 29 or the 29th Conference of the Parties, began in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Monday, November 11 2024. As talks of the global conference on climate change opened, the United Nations warned that the Paris climate agreement’s goals “are in great peril” and that 2024 is on track to break new temperature records. The period...

World leaders are to sit together in the 29th United Nations Conference of Parties (COP 29) on climate from November 11th to 22nd in Baku, Azerbaijan. Among other important climate issues, this year's conference will focus on ‘Climate Finance’. The agenda before the conference will give critical significance to the Global South, which includes...

November 11th is celebrated as National Education Day every year in India. The day is observed in honour of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first Education Minister of independent India and a prominent educationist. This day highlights the importance of education in shaping India's future. With 65 per cent of the nation's population under the...

As the supposed 'erratic' leader, Donald Trump makes a stunning comeback as the President of the United States of America, the country is all set to witness new policy infusions that can change the course of how Americans live. From policies on abortion, and climate action to perspective on global conflicts, the Trump government...

The Environment Minister of the Government of Delhi, Shri Gopal Rai, has made an announcement revealing plans to combat the air pollution crisis this year with artificial rain. Delhi suffers from extreme air pollution during the winter months, as cold air traps dust, vehicle emissions, and smoke from the stubble burning practice occurring in...

Lahore, the second-largest city of Pakistan held the top spot on a real-time list of the most polluted cities in the world, according to the data released by the provincial government and Swiss group IQAir. The city recorded an unprecedented high Air Quality Index (AQI) of 1900 recently. This has caused the authorities to take immediate...

With Mumbai’s air quality dipping lately, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has banned bursting of firecrackers after 10 p.m. during the ongoing Diwali festivities. The Mumbai civic body has issued new guidelines to restrict the use of firecrackers during Diwali and at the same time urged citizens to follow the same in order to...

Indians waste as much food as the whole of United Kingdom consumes, according to a study conducted by United Nations Development Program. While this is majorly because of a large population size of the country as compared to the UK, it is still an alarming statistic considering how much of the country's population still...

According to a new study from RepRisk, a global leader in ESG data technology, there has been a 12% decrease in greenwashing risk globally across all sectors from June 2023-2024. This kind of decrease is a first in the last six years RepRisk’s third annual greenwashing report has stated that the general downward trend is...

The destruction of global forests increased in the last year as per a new study. According to a study by the research group Climate Focus, deforestation in current times is higher than when 140 countries promised three years ago to halt the practice by the end of the decade. This is counterproductive to combating...

South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), the Chhattisgarh-based subsidiary of mining major Coal India Limited, has planted a staggering 1,46,675 saplings across its operational areas in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. Plantation drive was conducted in 8 districts of Chhattisgarh and 3 districts in Madhya Pradesh, covering an area of over 56 hectares. Additionally, the company...