Need to tackle ill-effects of climate change: Om Birla

IANS | October 12, 2023 3:02 PM

New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Addressing the Parliamentary Forum on LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment), a prelude event to the P20 summit beginning Friday, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday said the environment is an essential part of human life and hence there is a need to tackle the ill-effects of climate change.

Discarded vapes annually equal six Eiffel Towers in weight

IANS | October 12, 2023 9:58 AM

New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Every year, unused cables, electronic toys, LED-decorated novelty clothes, power tools, vaping devices, and countless other small consumer items often not recognised by consumers as e-waste amount to nine billion kilograms of e-waste, one-sixth of all e-waste worldwide.

Groundwater quality in Punjab 'unsafe', may up health risks: IIT Mandi

IANS | October 10, 2023 2:38 PM

Shimla, Oct 10 (IANS) Human activity has increased groundwater pollution, particularly through agricultural runoff in Punjab, making it unsafe for drinking and raising health risk, according to a new research released by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi on Tuesday.

Construction in glacial areas causing disasters: Experts

IANS | October 10, 2023 2:32 PM

Lucknow, Oct 10 (IANS) Scientists at the ongoing ‘Earth Science Week’ at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) in Lucknow, have said that construction in glacial areas is causing disasters in Himalayan regions.

Climate change may make Delhi, Kolkata 2-4 degrees warmer: Study

IANS | October 10, 2023 10:11 AM

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Climate change could expose up to 2.2 billion people in India and the Indus Valley to many hours of heat that surpass human tolerance by the end of the century, a new research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) said on Tuesday.