Behind Façade of Clean Mountain Towns, Kullu and Manali Struggle to Manage Waste
Authorities blame the surge in tourism for mounting waste, thus sidestepping issues of rise in domestic consumption and lack of
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Chennai Is Running Out of Water, Impacting 4.6 Million People
Chennai, the sixth-largest city in India is running out of water for its nearly 4.6 million residents as four of the city’s reservoirs
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596 new plant and animal species discovered in India last year
224 new species of plants and 372 animal species discovered in India last year Scientists and taxonomists have documented 596
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India faces worst water crisis: NITI Aayog
The NITI Aayog on Thursday released the results of a study warning that India is facing its ‘worst’ water crisis
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Indian villages lie empty as drought forces thousands to flee
Sick and elderly left to fend for themselves with no end in sight to water crisis Hundreds of Indian villages
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Groundwater may fall below 100m in north west India
Ground water found at a depth of about 100 metres in north-west India will be exhausted within the next 10
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Karnataka lost 10,000 hectares of forest in 3 years
Karnataka has lost more than 3,000 hectares of primary forests in each year between 2016 and 2018, which is way
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Indian Ocean island group chokes on 238 tonnes of plastic waste
It included about 25% single-use plastics, 373,000 toothbrushes and 977,000 shoes Scientists have found that 414 million plastic waste items,
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India’s forest cover loss in 17 years is four times the size of Goa
India has lost over 1.6 million hectare of tree cover between 2001 and 2018, about four times the geographical area
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Environment is the Modi government’s most under-reported disaster
Dhruv Rathee, The Print Climate change, pollution and biodiversity destruction are some of the most urgent challenges, and a new-generation of
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