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A simple diving trip led an 18-year-old to build a system to pull plastic from the oceanInspired by a beach clean-up day, an 18-year-old innovator envisioned a groundbreaking solution for ocean pollution. By applying his unders...- 20-year-old who cleaned the Ajnar river alone in Madhya Pradesh is Anand Mahindra’s Monday motivation. Who is Bittu Tabahi?Industrialist Anand Mahindra recently shared the inspiring journey of 20-year-old Bittu Tabahi, who cleaned the polluted Ajnar River in Mad...
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Isn’t Empty, It’s Becoming a Floating HabitatOnce seen as a barren plastic wasteland, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now a thriving habitat for coastal species. These organisms, pr...
- This “Trash Island” Is Becoming an Ecosystem—and Scientists Are UnsettledOcean plastic is now home to new life. Algae, barnacles, and small creatures are settling on floating debris. This is not a sign of ocean h...
- Plastic isn’t just pollution anymore: Scientists find marine life thriving and reproducing on plastic debris in Great Pacific Garbage PatchPlastic waste in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is no longer just pollution; it's a home now. Scientists have found marine animals thrivin...
- 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...
- COVID-19 pandemic generated 8 million tonnes of plastic waste: StudyThe researchers noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increased demand for single-use plastics such as face masks, gloves, and fac...
- Donald Trump raises stink, claiming garbage from India reaches Los AngelesTrump was particularly agitated that the rest of the world, particularly developing countries such as China and India, had corralled Washin...
- Ganga promise: Walk the ghats, but don’t take a dipBJP leaders such as Varanasi mayor Ram Gopal Mohley and Shiv Sharan Pathak, blamed the state government for the lack of progress.
- Seven facts about the hazardous pollutionPollution is one of the biggest global killers, affecting over 100 million people.Here are some facts about the hazard:
- How we colluded in turning Paravur into an inferno that has claimed 107 lives so farThis quietness gets ruptured once a year: on the last day of the week-long festival of the Puttingal temple in the Malayalam month of Meena...
- Focus on coasts to clean up plastics in ocean: StudyThe patch is enclosed by ocean currents that concentrate the plastics into an area estimated to be larger than twice the size of the UK.
- Over five trillion pieces of plastic floating in world oceans: StudyMicroplastic pollution in varying proportions throughout the oceans, but estimates of its global abundance lack sufficient data to support ...
- Over 5 trillion plastic particles floating in world's oceans, finds studyOver 5.25 trillion plastic particles, with a combined weight of 269,000 tons may be floating in the world's oceans, according to a new stud...
- Delhi turns 100: Transition of a chaotic, charismatic, restless & relentless metropolisFor a city Delhi's age, 100 years is a blip. But the century gone by mirrors all that India's capital stands for — a metropolis that is cha...
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