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ATMOSPHERIC PLASTIC POLLUTION
Heat-trapping microplastics found to play role in climate changeScientists found that colored plastic particles, prevalent in the atmosphere, have a significant heat-trapping impact, particularly in area...- Microplastics in India’s agriculture: A growing problem demanding urgent actionA new roadmap by NAAS emphasises national monitoring, improved waste management, and biodegradable alternatives to combat the growing crisi...
- The plastic you can’t see is flooding the Atlantic, and entering your bodyA staggering 27 million tons of nanoplastics, invisible to the naked eye, now pollute the North Atlantic Ocean, posing a significant threat...
- Breaking our plastics habit is easier said than doneWe produce some 400 million metric tons of plastics year in, year out. Except for the roughly 9% that’s recycled and 12% that’s incinerated...
- Climate impact of plastic pollution is negligible, production of new plastics is the real problemPlastic pollution and climate change are often linked together, but new research shows that existing plastic pollution has a negligible imp...
- Study finds how oceans release microplastics into atmosphere
- Tackling plastic pollution and climate change through innovation and injection of sufficient fundsPlastics could, likewise, be broken down into constituent chemicals that are combined as desired to produce useful things. The ability to e...
- View: The menace that plastics in our waters pose to all life should not worry us on Earth Day aloneThe serious menace of plastics should not worry us one day a year alone, today on Earth Day. It should make us genuinely concerned about th...
- Extreme winter nighttime pollution in New Delhi air explainedA team of researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland along with scientist from the Indian Institute of Technology (I...
- Chemical air pollution creates new toxins over time: Study
- In a first, DPCC to study microplastics pollution in River Yamuna, Delhi's soil, foodThe river water and the adjacent soil are contaminated with various pollutants, including heavy metals. In this study, the effects of seaso...
- View: Climate change poses grave risks to life, limb and livelihoodsWhen plastics replaced glass, porcelain and metal to make containers, buckets, plates and innumerable industrial and household items, no on...
- Combating Delhi's pollution even on war footing could take more than five yearsIIT Delhi submitted a long list of recommendations to the ministry of environment, forest and climate control, and short-term measures to t...
- India has long way to go on climate goals, PM Modi's target 'unrealistic'Recently at the UNESCO headquarters at Paris, Modi said that India will achieve most of the COP 21, also known as the 2015 Paris Climate Co...
- Floating ocean plastics can contribute to global warming, find Indian researchersThe study found that floating plastics act similar to algae and prevent the absorption of sunlight by water bodies.
- Union Earth Sciences ministry to study marine litter
- 99% sea birds will have plastic in their guts by 2050Nearly 60 percent of seabird species like penguins, gulls and albatrosses have plastic in their gut and by 2050 this may rise to 99 percent...
- Non-polluting firecracker devised in ChinaIt is more beautiful than normal firecrackers. If customers need, the firecracker can emit water mist and even fragrance, Wang said.
- Dip in atmospheric pollution level on BhogiThe Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has reported a dip in the atmospheric pollution level from the previous year during Bhogi, a traditi...
- Tripping due to pollution: ExpertsAs the sudden fog over Delhi and NCR on Sunday stumped most people, environmentalists and meteorological experts said this was possibly the...
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