The tower’s major mainstay — the air filters — to make air pure for inhaling are still missing, with not even one of the total of 5,000 required being installed it.
The thickness of plastic carry bags will be increased from 50 microns to 75 microns from September 30, 2021, and to 120 microns from December 31, 2022, according to the notification dated August 12.
The report also found escape from human-caused climate change is no longer possible. Climate change is now affecting every continent, region, and ocean on Earth, and every facet of the weather.
The number of Asiatic lions, who live primarily in the Gir forests, was estimated to be 674 in 2020, an increase of 29 percent in five years.
The bench came down heavily on the government when it was hearing a petition seeking a CBI probe into the alleged scam of felling of trees in the state.
Flowing over 22 km in Delhi — from Wazirabad to Okhla, which is less than two per cent of its total length, it accounts for around 80 per cent of the pollution load, according to an earlier report of the DPCC.
The report, titled ‘Figures of Driven to Waste’, was released jointly by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the British retailing giant Tesco on Wednesday, Xinhua news agency reported.
Villagers will be made aware about the need to protect the environment and intensive plantation drive will be carried out in this area.
Dia shares five tips that will help you do your bit to keep the oceans clean and healthy:
That’s because Earth’s land and ocean already absorb about half of the greenhouse gases that people emit. Wild animals, plants, fungi, and microbes help maintain this carbon sink by keeping soils, forests, and other ecosystems healthy.
A group of woodpecker birds known as the descent eats primarily on insects, fruits, and termites, and they build their nests in tree holes.
This makes Delhi’s ponds the most bio-diverse of any urban ponds anywhere in the world, as best as they can make out.
The report said that 80 per cent of the people are not aware of Patna’s Clean Air Action Plan, an initiative launched by the Bihar government in 2019.
A new review by the global think tank, ODI, The costs of climate change in India, released on Tuesday, laid out how rising temperatures will jeopardise India’s economic development through different channels, including falling agriculture productivity, impact to public health, reduced labour productivity and sea level rise.
World Oceans Day 2021 Theme: The current year’s superb spotlight will be on the life and job that the sea supports. The topic for World Oceans Day 2021 is “The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods”.
Despite efforts to protect the river, Muteshekau Shipu continues to be threatened by potential new hydroelectric dam development.
World Environment Day (World Environment Day 2020) is observed every year on 5th June with the objective of awareness about similar messages.
Various programs are organized to make people aware on this day. Through these programs, people are made aware of things like planting trees, preserving trees, not cutting green trees, keeping rivers clean and not playing with nature.
Delhi’s minimum temperature settled at 17.6 degrees Celsius while maximum temperature hovered around 35 degrees Celsius. It was forecast light rain, thundershowers accompanied with gusty winds with speed of 30-40 kmph.
‘Yaas’ is likely to cross the Odisha-West Bengal coasts between Paradip and Sagar Islands around noon on May 26 as a very severe cyclonic storm with wind speeds of 155-165 kmph, Kolkata’s Regional Meteorological Centre Deputy Director Sanjib Bandopadhyay said.
Keeping in view the approaching cyclone, the Eastern Railway on Sunday cancelled 25 trains between May 24 and May 29.
The study recorded a total of 329 snakes in 23 species and nine families. The new additions are — common bronzeback tree snake, common trinket snake, common cat snake, barred wolf snake, common kukri, streaked kukri, common sandboa and saw-scaled viper.
A low-pressure area formed over the east-central Bay of Bengal and the adjoining north Andaman Sea on Saturday.
He was under treatment at AIIMS Rishikesh and was admitted to the hospital on May 8 after testing positive for Covid-19.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has informed the preparedness of the state in facing any calamity arising out of the cyclonic storm.