Water Pollution

Nature supports people in critical ways, often at a highly local level. Wild bees buzz through farms, pollinating vegetables as they go. Nearby, wetlands remove chemicals from the farms runoff, protecting a community drinking water source. In communities all …

Most people recognize that the natural world is essential to our physical health and mental wellbeing. But its one thing to understand that dependence intuitively, and another to actually witness the overwhelming influence of nature over our lives on a global…

A new model that captures nature's contributions to human wellbeing and compares them to peoples' future needs shows that, within the next thirty years, as many five billion people could face water and food insecurity - particularly in Africa and South Asia. …

Iraq has been plunged into a new cycle of instability that potentially could be the most dangerous this conflict-scarred nation has faced, barely two years after declaring victory over Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS) in a war that left much …

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…