Environment

Ingersoll Rand, with its leading climate brands Trane and Thermo King, is further committing to bold action towards sustainability this week on a global stage at Climate Week NYC in New York City.          The company and its Trane and Thermo King businesses have launched the Gigaton Challenge to reduce 1 gigaton of carbon...

When 16-year-old climate warrior Greta Thunberg said #HowDareYou at the United Nations (U.N.), she gave a room full of world leaders a dressing down for their inaction. "This is all wrong," she stated, her voice trembling. "I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean, yet...

Coinciding with its participation in Climate Week and the United Nations General Assembly, 3M is acting on climate change through a new partnership with Clean Air Asia. 3M and the international non-governmental organization will collaborate on science-based air quality solutions for New Delhi, India, and Metro Manila, Philippines, ultimately advancing the mission to create healthier,...

Across the globe, indigenous and rural women already make invaluable contributions to their communities while sustainably managing natural resources. They use, manage, and conserve territories that comprise over 50% of the world’s land and support up to 2.5 billion men, women and children. About one in three people is dependent on communal land for their...

With rising awareness on climate change, the world is standing together today to speak up against the phenomena. In order to show their solidarity towards the cause, Global Climate Strike is organized to coincide with the United Nations Climate Week activities in the NewYork City. The Strike is a weeklong series of walkout protests and...

Agriculture is still the largest source of livelihood among the majority of people in rural India. Thus, if the country has to grow, it is important to uplift the agriculture sector of the country. Acknowledging the need to develop the sector, the government of India had kept agriculture as its core of the Union Budget...

A new technology developed by Indian scientists for ecological restoration is helping in the revival of mangroves degraded due to rising sea levels, climate change and human intrusion in the Sunderbans in West Bengal. Ecological restoration is basically the process of reviving native ecosystem in degraded areas while maintaining the diversity of original flora and...

The accumulation of marine litter in the world’s oceans over the past decades has risen. Plastic is ubiquitous, cheap to produce and extremely durable. Every piece of plastic ever produced still exists, therefore much of it has ended up, in the oceans. Worryingly, plastic breaks up over time into smaller and smaller pieces known as...

अंतर्राष्ट्रीय मंच पर देश के प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी जलवायु परिवर्तन पर गहरी चिंता व्यक्त कर चुके है, राज्य की देवेंद्र फडणवीस सरकार कई बार पर्यावरण संरक्षण को लेकर ढिंढोरा पीटती नज़र आयी है लेकिन जब बात आरे की आयी है तब ना केंद्र सरकार और ना ही देवेंद्र सरकार आरे को बचाने के पक्ष...

There are multiple agencies involved in the renewable energy sector in India. At the central level, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is the nodal ministry of the Government of India (GoI). The broad aim of the ministry is to develop and deploy new and renewable energy for supplementing the energy requirements...

A new global coalition to combat sand and dust storms was launched at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Conference of Parties (UNCCD COP14) meeting in Delhi recently. Sand and dust storms—also known as sirocco, haboob, yellow dust, white storms, and the harmattan—are a natural phenomenon linked with land and water management, and climate...

Denim is among the fastest-growing fashion trend in the recent decade. With its sturdy finish and a comfortable fitting, it has become highly popular among millennials as well as the older generations. However, this denim is very expensive ecologically. Manufacturing one pair of jeans takes up 8000 litres of water. Taking this into consideration, a...