Cebu City (Philippines) 26 March 2021 – Waste pickers from Barangay Inayawan, Cebu City, demand inclusion into the city’s solid waste management system by offering to accept and manage the recyclables collected daily prior to…
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New Delhi, Mar 02 (India Science Wire): India is the third-largest producer of e-waste and has generated 3.23 MMT E-waste in 2019 alone. Paltry e-waste management makes the situation even more challenging. Notably, e-waste contains…
High spatial accuracy geospatial data finer than 1m horizontally and 3m vertically can now be acquired and owned only by Indian entities and stored in servers physically located in India Government agencies, and others will collaborate and work towards open-linked geospatial data.
analysis shows that organic speciation of PM2.5 identified 3 majorregional air corridors from which heavy metals and industrial pollutants mix with the city’s air
Over 85 per cent of districts in Uttarakhand, which are home to over nine crore people, are hotspots of extreme floods and its associated events, according to an independent analysis released today by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).
The study explains that complex chemical reactions involving Hydrochloric Acid (HCl), which is directly emitted in the atmosphere from plastic contained waste burning and few industrial processes, is primarily responsible for high PM2.5 chloride level.
New project of DBT-NIAB to upscale subsistence-level goat production to a viable, profitable model New Delhi, Jan 12: Goat husbandry in India is essentially an endeavor of millions of small holders who rear animals on…
New Delhi, 11th December 2020. On the completion of five years of the Paris Agreement, environmental activist Greta Thunberg has said that ‘We are speeding in the wrong direction’ on the climate crisis. Greta Thunberg…
Once a lifetime opportunity: About 30 minutes after the local sunset, in the southwestern direction, low in the sky, two giant gas plants, Saturn and Jupiter will appear so close that we will not be…
India is among the most vulnerable countries when it comes to climate change impacts with an average of 2,925 deaths annually due to extreme weather events. These events are estimated to cost the country $14bn in economic losses.
Global water consumption will increase to ≈3,800 km3/ year by 2025 GUWAHATI, 8 December 2020: It is estimated that global water consumption will increase by ≈3,800 km3/yr by 2025, and much of this water will…
New Delhi, Dec 05: In a major boost to efforts to help meet the growing need for high-quality hybrid rice seeds, a team of Hyderabad-based researchers has developed a new method to assess the genetic…
India: One of the world’s most water-stressed countries New Delhi, Tuesday, 1 December 2020: India is among the world’s most water-stressed countries, today. Per capita water available is set to decline to 1465 cubic meters…
New Delhi, Nov 25: In a significant boost in efforts to find better anti-cancer drugs, a team of Indian scientists has found a way to control the expression of a cancer-inducing gene called cancer myelocytomatosis…
New Delhi, 23rd November 2020. Industrial slowdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has not curbed record levels of greenhouse gases which are trapping heat in the atmosphere, increasing temperatures and driving more extreme weather, ice…
ICMR Report on Health Assessment of communities living near Raigarh New Delhi. A new study establishes that nearby mining activities put the population at increased risk of diseases such as acute respiratory infection (ARI), tuberculosis,…
Delhi has started reporting a spike in COVID-19 infections. New Delhi, Nov 11: As winters are arriving the Delhi/NCR region has started experiencing the problem of smog. From the past few years, it has…
Trump is not accepting defeat US president Donald trump is not ready to accept his defeat in US election 2020. He tweeted – “Where are the missing military ballots in Georgia? What happened to them?”…
– A joint initiative by Diamond Toons and Ministry of Jal Shakti – A ‘Talking comics’ to promote behavioural change among masses to revive the river New Delhi, 6th November 2020: The iconic Indian superhero,…
Challenges for festive season amid COVID-19 pandemic New Delhi, Nov 05, 2020: Masks and physical distancing are the two weapons that can help us combat novel coronavirus. In view of the upcoming festive season amid…
