Environment

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...

It takes 10,000 litres of water to produce one kilogram of cotton. Global cotton production requires over 250 billion tons of water annually. This means, the production of one cotton t-shirt uses up about 2700 litres of fresh water. October 7 is observed as World Cotton Day each year. The day is aimed at recognising...

Everyone lifts up their camera lens to click the clear skies of the capital city Delhi. Something extraordinary has taken place today. The city has recorded the lowest AQI (Air Quality Index) at ‘56’, under the moderate category. This is good news because usually, the figure remains above ‘200’, under the ‘poor’ category.  But...

India causes the highest amount of plastic pollution in the world, a new study has discovered India burns about 5.8 million tons of plastic every year, and it further releases 3.5 mt of plastics into the environment (land, air, water) as debris. In total, the country is responsible for 9.3 mt of plastic pollution...

As Mumbai started celebrating its biggest festival Ganesh Chaturthi or Ganeshotsav on Saturday, over 62,000 idols were immersed in various water bodies in Mumbai on the second day of the festival on Sunday. As per the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), 62,569 idols were immersed in the sea, other water bodies and artificial ponds till...

Elections are not just a civic obligation, but they are a festival of democracy. It is a time to assess the performance of parties, scrutinise their promises, and make informed choices about our future leaders. While only one party holds the fort at the centre and forms a government, each party plays a role...

Kerala Chief Minsiter Pinarayi Vijayan has said that the state government would recruit global expertise, state-of-the-art and future-proof climate-resilient technologies, and enlist top environmental architects to build a model township for the landslide victims in Wayanad. He has ensured that the government would invest heavily in this project, and claimed that several businesses and...

The dumping of plastic is causing significant environmental degradation and adversely affecting aquatic life in the country's rivers and water bodies, said the Supreme Court on Tuesday. "The dumping of plastic is causing serious environmental degradation and also impacting aquatic life in the river banks and the water bodies in the country.Unless concerted effort is made by the responsible authorities with people's...