Water Pollution

October 7: World Habitat Day The World Habitat Day is organized by the United Nations. The organization has designated the first Monday of every October to commemorate the day. Theme: Frontier Technologies as an innovative tool to transform waste to wealth.…

— By Anneke Van Woudenberg Ten years ago, 700 workers at the Kingamyambo Musonoi Tailings (KMT) mine in Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, were ordered to stop their work. They downed their tools, stopping trucks in the middle of the road and leaving pi…

All creatures great and small (The Hindu) Mains Paper 3: Environment Prelims level: World Animal Rights DayMains level: Relations between welfare of humans and other animals Context World Animal Rights Day falls on October 4. It coincides with the…

Karst Stone Paper notebooks Photo by Kevin Garcia, Karst Stone Paper If Karst Stone Paper has its way, youll never play Rock-Paper-Scissors the same way again. Its rocks become paper that cuts more crisply with scissors. Paper made from rocks Who couldnt be…

Posted October 04, 2019 07:25:10 It has been almost two years since millions of microplastics nurdles spilled onto pristine beaches in Victoria's south-west, sparking an emergency response from authorities, and the plastics' origins remains a mystery. Key…

The State Pollution Control Board (PCB) has made it clear that polluter pays principle will be applicable on Maradu municipality, builders of the four apartments to be demolished, and the agency responsible for pulling them down owing to the ecological damage…

These seawall drains do not connect directly to the sewers, despite what the EPA seems to think. | Via Shutterstock The mayor denies charge that city dumps raw sewage into the ocean On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) followed through on t…

World Animal Rights Day falls on October 4. It coincides with the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron Saint of animals and the environment. As far back as the 12th century, he recognised the importance of extending compassion towards animals. Today, wi…

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a violation notice to the city of city of San Francisco Wednesday for violating the Clean Water Act. This comes at a time when California is feuding with the federal government over whether or not the state has the r…

Modern society relies on metals like copper, gold and nickel for uses ranging from medicine to electronics. Most of these elements are rare in Earth's crust, so mining them requires displacing vast volumes of dirt and rock. Hard rock miningso called because i…