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    Indian capital launches campaign to curb toxic air pollution

    environment
    Updated on Oct 5, 2020 11:59 IST
    “Polluted air can be life-threatening in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. Both affect the lungs,” Kejriwal said.

    Delhi’s air quality in moderate category

    The city recorded an air quality index (AQI) of 169 at 10 am which falls in the “moderate” category.
    environment
    Updated on Oct 5, 2020 11:21 IST

    Delhi to launch massive anti-air pollution campaign from Oct 5: Gopal Rai

    “Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will launch a mega anti-air pollution campaign after a meeting with officials.”
    environment
    Updated on Oct 2, 2020 09:51 IST

    Global climate events over last 3,200 years may have caused variations in Indian Summer Monsoon: Study

    Representational image
    environment
    Updated on Oct 1, 2020 16:41 IST

    Mumbai records most environmental offences among major cities for second consecutive year

    A mangrove hacked. The NCRB data for EPA, 1986 offences for Maharashtra showed 42 cases in 2019, as compared to 45 in 2018.
    environment
    Published on Oct 1, 2020 05:09 IST

    David Attenborough leads call for world to invest $500 billion a year to protect nature

    Broadcaster and film maker David Attenborough.
    environment
    Updated on Sep 30, 2020 16:04 IST

    France to ban use of wild animals in circuses, marine parks

    “It is time to open a new era in our relationship with these (wild) animals,”
    environment
    Updated on Sep 30, 2020 09:57 IST

    No major damage to local ecology: OIL on Baghjan gas and oil leak

    The Baghjan gas well blowout led to oil and gas leaking into the adjacent Maguri Motapung wetland, the surrounding grasslands and river water.
    environment
    Published on Sep 30, 2020 03:16 IST

    Need to ensure countries take their obligations seriously to combat climate change: India

    “India is doing its part to combat climate change with determination and focus and in the spirit of South-South cooperation,”
    environment
    Updated on Sep 29, 2020 09:03 IST

    Aerial images show coastal road reclamation far beyond requirement: Environmentalist to SC

    CAT’s executive trustee, Debi Goenka, said the depth and the width of the reclamation demonstrated that the Supreme Court order has been allegedly ignored and caused irreparable damage to Mumbai’s coastline.
    environment
    Published on Sep 29, 2020 04:40 IST

    High wind speed improves Delhi’s air quality marginally

    “High surface wind speed is predicted... Favourable ventilation condition is likely to keep Delhi’s AQI in the moderate category for the next three days,” SAFAR said.
    environment
    Updated on Sep 28, 2020 16:26 IST

    Identified tourism sites can be turned into green zones with use of only bio fuels: Petroleum min

    The proposed project will be the joint effort of the ministry of tourism and the ministry of petroleum and natural gas.
    environment
    Updated on Sep 28, 2020 13:16 IST

    World’s youth rallies against climate change

    Thunberg and a handful of members of her group, Fridays for Future, assembled outside parliament with signs bearing slogans including “Stop Denying the Climate Is Dying”. (Representational Image)
    environment
    Updated on Sep 26, 2020 05:57 IST

    Aarey: Final proposal allocates 329 ha forest soon to be part of SGNP

    A final proposal for reserved forest declaration has been vetted and submitted to the Maharashtra government for the allocation of 328.9 hectare (ha) within Aarey as a reserved forest under the Indian Forest Act.
    environment
    Published on Sep 26, 2020 04:56 IST

    Mahul firms catching up with state’s pollution abatement plan: Environment Minister

    Residents of the Mahul-Trombay industrial area have been demanding their rehabilitation for the past two years on health grounds because of severe air pollution.
    environment
    Published on Sep 25, 2020 04:36 IST

    Green cover in Prayagraj almost doubles in 3 years

    The forest department alone has planted over 40 lakh saplings. Besides, farmers and residents have planted trees on a large scale.
    environment
    Published on Sep 24, 2020 04:28 IST

    Whale beaching: An enduring mystery

    Mass whale strandings have occurred throughout recorded modern history, and likely earlier.
    environment
    Updated on Sep 23, 2020 13:26 IST

    Don’t give up on recycling plastic

    Other organizations are helping to provide waste collecting and recycling infrastructure to the one-third of the globe that still lacks it.
    environment
    Updated on Sep 24, 2020 03:43 IST

    Toxins in water killed hundreds of elephants in Botswana

    Representational Image
    environment
    Updated on Sep 22, 2020 07:56 IST

    10.76 million trees felled or marked for felling for infra projects since 2015

    Around 1.263 million trees have been marked for felling in 2019-20 so far. In 2018-19, the number was highest at 3.036 million.
    environment
    Updated on Sep 18, 2020 03:15 IST

    MP forest officials play down leopard scare at Jabalpur colony, offer reasons

    The forest officials maintain that a leopard cannot be considered to have turned dangerous until it attacks humans.
    environment
    Updated on Sep 17, 2020 09:05 IST

    A Nobel Peace Prize for Greta Thunberg? In the age of climate change and coronavirus, it is possible

    FILE PHOTO: Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg holds a poster reading "School strike for Climate" as she protests in front of the Swedish Parliament Riksdagen, in Stockholm, Sweden, September 4, 2020.
    environment
    Updated on Sep 17, 2020 08:55 IST

    680 projects in wildlife rich and protected areas were cleared in past 5 years

    Jharkhand, July 03 (ANI): Deserted view of Jharia mining area during second day of coal strike against the privatization of coal mines, in Dhanbad on Friday. (ANI Photo)
    environment
    Published on Sep 17, 2020 04:17 IST

    These scientists are studying why California keeps burning

    TOPSHOT - A firefighter watches the Bobcat Fire burning on hillsides near Monrovia Canyon Park in Monrovia, California on September 15, 2020. - A major fire that has been raging outside Los Angeles for more than a week threatened to engulf a historic observatory and billion-dollar broadcast towers on September 15 as firefighters struggled to contain the flames. The so-called Bobcat Fire was within 500 feet (150 meters) from the 116-year-old Mt. Wilson Observatory, the US Forest Service said in a tweet, while fire officials said crews were in place "ready to receive the fire." (Representational)
    environment
    Updated on Sep 16, 2020 16:19 IST

    Global emissions of greenhouse gases plummet during lockdown, but for how long?

    Global emissions of greenhouse gases plummeted during the lockdowns but they’re already heading back up to pre-corona levels.
    environment
    Updated on Sep 16, 2020 11:33 IST

    Pest attack on Mumbai’s mangrove forests unusually early this year: Forest department

    Mumbai’s died up mangrove forests.
    environment
    Updated on Jan 6, 2021 01:38 IST

    World Ozone Day 2020: How we can do our part for preserving it

    World Ozone Day 2020: Significance of International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer.
    environment
    Updated on Sep 16, 2020 07:49 IST

    ‘Soil pollution from Kanjur landfill killing fish less than 500m from flamingo sanctuary’

    Hundreds of dead fish were floating in and along the edges of the creek on Tuesday.
    environment
    Updated on Sep 16, 2020 06:22 IST

    Covid-19 waste: Maharashtra pollution body asks BMC to enhance abatement measures

    MPCB said black smoke was being generated from burning a voluminous amount of personal protective equipment (PPE) kits daily but the unit was not violating emission norms for nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
    environment
    Published on Sep 15, 2020 03:55 IST

    Fishermen leader moves Bombay HC, complains about lack of action to stop banned purse seine nets, high-density LED lights

    In his petition, Akhil Maharashtra Macchimar Kruti Samittee chairman Damodar Tandel said no action has been taken to stop the banned activities reported mostly off the coast of Ratnagiri despite repeated complaints.
    environment
    Published on Sep 12, 2020 09:19 IST
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