by NEST Northeast Social Transformation Network | Jun 19, 2018 | Climate Change, Home, News, Pollution Watch, Sustainable Living
The United Nations has called for urgent action to combat land degradation. It has also called for the need to make sustainable choices for greening the blue and reclaiming land that is getting lost due to deforestation. The World Day to Combat Desertification and...
by Aanchal Pruthi | Jun 18, 2018 | Climate Change, Home, News, Pollution Watch
Dust Storms hit Delhi. In fact, the whole of North India has been hit by severe dust storms over the past week. Dust Storms have caused the deaths of about 125 people and has injured several others. It particularly hit the national capital Delhi and adjoining areas,...
by The Third Pole | Jun 16, 2018 | Climate Change, Home, Rivers, Sustainable Living
I, recently, came across real news about Pakistan, which merit sharing and commenting. According to a July 2017 article by Carole Dalin at the University College, London as well as fellow authors, in the journal Nature, which is the world’s top journal for scientific...
by Urmi Bhattacharjee | Jun 13, 2018 | Climate Change, Home, News, Pollution Watch, Rivers, Solar & Green Energy, Wildlife
Unable to improve air quality, protect biodiversity, and cut greenhouse gas emissions, India, say available data, stands today at the rock bottom of Global Environment Performance Index (EPI) rankings for 2018. In the year 2016, India ranked 141 of 180 countries. In...
by Satya Narayana Sahu | Jun 6, 2018 | Climate Change, Home, News, Pollution Watch, Sustainable Living
Whenever the issue of environment and sustainable development is taken up for discussion people invariably take a quote or two from the Brundtland Commission report of 1987, the Limits to Growth report of the Club of Rome of 1972 or some other UN Document of 1980s....
by Ushi Fatma | Jun 5, 2018 | Climate Change, Home, News, Pollution Watch, Solar & Green Energy
Civil society needs to repeatedly make people aware as well as responsible for their actions. That is where the citizens you and I come in. The best thing which we can do for the environment today is reduce the use of plastics in our lives. India will host the World...
