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Bioplastics Have Less Positive Effect than Expected: Study
A recent study from the University of Bonn suggests that shifting to bioplastics may have less positive effects than previously expected. The...
10 Dec 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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07 Dec 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Last Updated: August 2022 For Prelims: Climate Finance, COP 26, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
07 Dec 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Air Pollution in India: One in 8 Deaths due to Air Pollution
A recent study under India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative has estimated the exposure to air pollution and its impact on deaths, disease...
07 Dec 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Rendering The Perennial Lifeless
(The editorial is based on the article “Rendering the Perennial Lifeless” which appears in EPW on 1st December 2018.) The pollution...
03 Dec 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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30 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Last Updated: August 2022 For Prelims: Eco Sensitive Zones, Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986, National Wildlife Action Plan, National Park,...
30 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Lancet Report on Climate Change and Human Health
Lancet’s Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change 2018 report has recommended that Indian government must take a series of...
29 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Andaman & Nicobar Islands’ Rich Faunal Diversity
A recent publication by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) titled Faunal Diversity of Biogeographic Zones: Islands of India, has for the first time...
26 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Atmospheric Geoengineering Experiment to Curb Global Warming
The research by scientists at Harvard and Yale universities, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, proposed using a technique...
24 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Greenhouse Gas Levels Reach Record Highs: UN Report
Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the United Nations weather agency,...
24 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Prime Minister laid the foundation stone to mark the commencement of work for 9th round of City Gas Distribution(CGD). Government of India is...
23 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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World’s First Online Climate Summit
World leaders are set to participate in an innovative climate change summit that will take place entirely online which makes it a carbon neutral...
22 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Breathe: An Action Plan for Combating Air Pollution
Introduction NITI Aayog has developed 15 Action Points to combat air pollution across a range of industries and sectors. It calls for concerted...
21 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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21 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Last Updated: September 2022 For Prelims: Water ATMs, Swajal Scheme, MGNREGA for Water Conservation. For Mains: Water ATMs: Need, Related...
21 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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BASIC Nations Push for ‘Climate Finance’
Ahead of the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP24) in Katowice, Poland, the BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, China and India) countries said that...
21 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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IMO Guidelines on Shipping Fuel
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted an amendment that supports a reduced limit on sulphur in ships' fuel oil. The IMO adopted...
21 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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Invasive Plant Species Introduced by Kerala Floods
Floods and landslides in Kerala have brought several alien invasive species of plants into the State’s water bodies, posing a threat to native...
21 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
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In a first, eight captive-reared critically endangered white-backed vultures will be released with tracking devices. The Vultures were bred in the...
12 Nov 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation
