The study titled “Air Quality Trends in Rural India,” recorded the Nitrogen Dioxide levels in the rural pockets and could notice a trend of rising air pollution. Rural villages accounted for 41 per cent of the overall NO2 pollution in India.
With a 7,500-kilometer-long coastline divided into nine coastal states, India is among the countries that would face devastating impacts of the global sea level rise, according to the World Meteorological Organization report.
Envisioning a solution for the growing plastic waste, Ashaya has come up with an innovative product – a sunglass made out of waste chips packets. A Twitter thread about the product story is now going viral and winning hearts.
Water scarcity has been a long-going crisis in Maharashtra and farmers continue to be at the receiving end of the drought situation. While the entire country relies on the grain producers, here’s how they struggle and survive to ensure food reaches every plate.
Protected forest lands in the country are often placed under the threat of garbage piles left behind by tourists and others. Residents and foresters attempt to keep their lands clean, but it’s quite the challenge with state’s illegally dumping their garbage in the border zones.
In a measure to protect and conserve the population of the great one-horned Rhinos, Bihar would be conducting one of the biggest breeding programmes seen in the country. The announcement comes as a part of the Chitwan Declaration signed by the Asian Rhino Range Countries.
Mining the seabeds was known to come along with several environmental problems, and a recent study reveals that the mining noises interferes with the whale’s ability to communicate with one another.
A gold coin for every 20 quintals of polythene. An idea envisioned by a village sarpanch in Jammu and Kashmir is now making waves and setting examples of driving community efforts for a cleaner environment.
“The good news is that renewables and nuclear power are growing quickly enough to meet almost all this additional appetite,” claimed International Energy Agency’s Executive Director. Majority of the power demand is expected to come from Asian countries – India and China.
Instead of bouncing back 90 per cent of the sun’s heat, the melted ice would now absorb it and increase the temperature across Earth. The ice that acted as a buffer against the glaring heat has been reduced to thin layers at record levels by January.
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