Tag: ENVIRONMENT

Adversely impacting wildlife sanctuaries, tiger reserves and forest lands, the project worries environmentalists.

Here is an excerpt from an interesting conversation that The New Leam had with the authors.

Environmentalists point fingers at China for sustained manufacture of CFCs responsible for global ozone depletion.

EARTH DAY / As we commemorate Earth Day, it is time for the global community to take cognizance of the unprecedented damage that we have caused to planet Earth.

ENVIRONMENT India has ordered the complete ban on solid plastic waste imports in a target towards making the nation solid-plastic free by 2020.  The availability of alternatives accompanied by the support of citizens will enable India to achieve its targets.

ENVIRONMENT In an unprecedented welcome step, the European Parliament approved a ban on single-use plastics. The decision of the parliament makes it important for nations throughout the world to acknowledge the gravity of the matter and cut down their use of plastic.

The attitude of caring towards nature shall not be reduced into a momentary response but should be an integral component of our lives. It is our life choices and consumption trends that determine the ecological future of the collective known as humankind.

ENVIRONMENT The air pollution level in Delhi has again reached its peak, temporary steps and immediate measures will help address the immediate crisis but unless as a collective we work for radical shifts in consumption patterns we cannot achieve long term change.

SPECIAL ESSAY Metropolitan living has often made us incapable of humanity and brought home the illusion that all beings are secondary to humans. A recent experience of pain and inner conflict as reflected on by the author enabled him to see the irony of this anthropocentric fallacy.