by Arpita Shome | May 14, 2020 | Ecofriendly, Home
This year on Earth day we got an age-old lesson once again from the Global Pandemic that we are facing right now: “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” The world is facing an unprecedented challenge in the form of COVID 19...
by Arpita Shome | Apr 8, 2019 | Home
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). It has three important features: a) Mitigation Actions: NCAP gives special attention to details of various mitigation actions. Web-based three-tier...
by Arpita Shome | Apr 6, 2019 | Home
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) recently launched National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). The NCAP is a pollution control initiative which aims to reduce the concentration of particles (PM2.5 and PM10) by 20 to 30 per cent by 2024. The...
by Arpita Shome | Feb 19, 2019 | Home, Our steps
At Chennai’s National Institute of Ocean Technology, a team of scientists have recorded blue and green microplastic particles as well as fibers in marine worms. Once they are in the bodies of marine creatures, they cause internal damage. Besides toxins, microplastics...
by Arpita Shome | Feb 9, 2019 | Home, Our steps
At Chennai’s National Institute of Ocean Technology, scientists recorded fluorescent blue and green microplastic particles and fibers in species of marine worms. They get inside the bodies of marine animals. They can cause internal damage. Apart from accumulating...
