Tag - pollution
The economic boom in China has come with enormous environmental costs. Experts believe that the coastal waters of China are dangerously polluted and contaminated by major pollutants, like inorganic nitrogen and phosphate. As a result, the country's...
I have of late been noticing some talks about the entire global warming issue being over hyped. They are basically citing some scientists who have argued that the recent climate changes and natural calamities have not been caused by the so called...
I remember I was in the fifth standard when I happened to read an article in some magazine about the extinct species of India. Through that article I came to know certain things which I never knew before. For example, very few people would know that...
We have been hearing and reading about animals and natural resources being in danger due to human activities from a long time. Many animal species have vanished from the face of earth, we are facing an unpredictable and harsh weather, potable water...
Of late, the hottest topic is the greenhouse effect. We have been discussing the way outs like cutting on cars, turning to bicycles again, clear-felling forests, changing to energy-efficient light bulbs, not using polythene bags, etc, etc, but if you...
The Indonesian resort town of Bali will play host to 12 days conference addressing ways to remedy global climate change. More than 10,000 delegates from 190 countries representing diverge professions from ministers to Noble laureates to drought...
On Friday, delegates of 130 nations in a U.N. climate conference have agreed on a blueprint to combat global warming. The government delegates and scientists agreed on a summary of some 20 pages about the mounting risk of climate change with only a...
According to a report by the US Climate Change Science Program, the Bush administration’s climate research arm, North America’s ability to absorb global gases created by the USA, Canada and Mexico is smaller than previously thought and is likely to...
The Bay of Bengal is acting as an unexpected weapon against global warming according to a new study published in the science journal nature. The study conducted by a team of researchers led by Valier Galy of France’s Nancy University found that around...
With a record-high dumped wastes of 30.5 billion tons, the Yangtze River in China can be considered as a “giant toilet bowl” of Asia as waste production and illegal dumping in the area continue to worsen.
Xinhua news agency reported the recent...
Pollution caused by ships is believed to be responsible for around 60,000 deaths every year according to a new study. A study conducted by James Corbett of the University of Delaware, Newark and colleagues linked soot emissions from the shipping...
Wow. India and Asia will be devastated. Beware. Get your act together. Become more and more compliant with every which environmental rule in the book, otherwise you will have floods, uncontrolled movement of peoples, droughts and all sorts of...
Yangtze River, the world’s third largest river, has become one of the most polluted rivers of the world posing serious threat to animal and plant life. According to a joint Chinese-Swiss expedition supported by the Swiss Agency for Development, the...
The UN’s recent Human Development Report 2007 targets India as a major environmental polluter and asks India to clean up her act. And why should India not be blamed for global warming? For the simple reason, we are not a rich country. Put simply, we...
What should the government do when citizens and companies don’t abide laws? Punish them, of course! That’s exactly China plans to do for polluters who refuse to think on the effects of their indifference towards the environment.
While China’s...
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