Tag: environment

Sports Minister Urges Youngsters To Use Cycles As Commuting Option

February 16, 2025 admin

Mumbai: Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday urged the youngsters of the country to use cycles as a commuting option whenever possible to remain healthy and promote a better environment. Mandaviya led Fit India Movement’s flagship programme, Sundays on Cycle, here this morning with an aim to create awareness among the masses to lead…

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‘Carpooling can save 380 million litres of fuel’: Economic Survey lists collective actions for environment

January 31, 2025 admin

Carpooling at Cognizant in Siruseri, Chennai on August 29, 2018. IT majors lead the way in carpooling. sRide and Quick Ride among several carpooling apps cater to the corporate sector in India. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Economic Survey 2024-2025 tabled in the Lok Sabha on Friday (January 31, 2025), stated that carpooling could reduce 380 million litres…

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Drill, Baby, Drill: Will Trump’s ‘Emergency’ Plan To Make Oil Cheap Work?

January 28, 2025 admin

US President Donald Trump, on the very first day of assuming office, laid out a sweeping plan to maximise oil and gas production, including declaring a national energy emergency to speed the permitting of projects, rolling back environmental protections, suspending new federal offshore wind leasing proposals pending an environmental and economic review, and withdrawing the…

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‘Huge Disappointment’ At Climate Hearings: Global South Representative

December 13, 2024 admin

The Hague, Netherlands: As marathon climate change hearings wrapped up Friday at the world’s top court, a representative for vulnerable nations voiced “huge disappointment” at the attitude of top polluters and urged judges to make them legally accountable for historic emissions. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has played host to history over the past…

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What Are Bomb Cyclones And How Do They Form?

November 29, 2024 admin

A dangerous weather phenomenon called a bomb cyclone that occurs in mid-latitudes – between Earth’s tropics and the polar regions – can bring strong and damaging winds, torrential rains, heavy snowfall, flooding and frigid temperatures. Here is an explanation of bomb cyclones: WHAT IS A BOMB CYCLONE? A bomb cyclone, also referred to as explosive…

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From Bolivia To Indonesia, Deforestation Continues Apace

October 8, 2024 admin

Paris: Deforestation continued last year at a rate far beyond pledges to end the practice by 2030, according to a major study published Tuesday. Forests nearly the size of Ireland were lost in 2023, according to two dozen research organisations, NGOs and advocacy groups, with 6.37 million hectares (15.7 million acres) of trees felled and…

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Sunflowers ‘dance’ to get more sunlight, scientists find

September 18, 2024 admin

Most of us aren’t spending our days watching our houseplants grow. We see their signs of life only occasionally – a new leaf unfurled, a stem leaning toward the window. But in the summer of 1863, Charles Darwin lay ill in bed, with nothing to do but watch his plants so closely that he could…

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New research finds abundant microplastics in personal care products available in India

August 27, 2024 admin

Personal care products (PCP) like face washes and shower gels in India contain a significant amount of harmful microplastics, new research has revealed. According to a study published in the Emerging Contaminants journal and led by Riya K. Alex, a third-year Ph.D Scholar at the Cochin University of Science and Technology, polyethylene (or polythene, PE)…

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Kerala Landslide Tragedy Is Why People Must Stop Opposing ‘ESAs’

August 8, 2024 admin

The recent landslides in Wayanad have prompted the central government to act swiftly in designating Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESA) in the Western Ghats, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the eight “hottest hotspots” of biological diversity in the world. On July 31, the central government issued the sixth iteration of the draft notification,…

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Watch | Earth Day: wake-up call on climate change

May 2, 2024 admin

Watch | Earth Day: wake-up call on climate change In this episode, we will be discussing Earth Day, which The Hindu covered with thematic articles on April 22. We look at multiple dimensions of climate change, beginning with the most recent Supreme Court ruling on climate change in terms of the rights of us citizens…

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