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Global plastics pollution has been created in one generation and, with system-wide accountability, can be solved in one generation. The global plastics pollution crisis will only worsen unless all actors across the plastics value chain are made more accountable for the true cost of plastics to natur

Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Resources , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 12/18/2018

Conservationists clash over coral reefs

Globally, coral restoration has expanded over the past 15 years. Researchers at the University of California have counted more than 150 operations transplanting nursery-raised corals to degraded reefs in the Caribbean, for example.

Cities , Environment , Opinions , Sustainable Development , Water / 12/02/2018

Indian Cities need multi-pronged efforts to conserve groundwater

For more than two billion people across the world aquifers are the primary water source but the shocking reality is that key groundwater basins in all the inhabited continents are being drained.

Business , Climate , Energy , Environment , Sustainable Development / 11/29/2018

HSBC CEO Slammed For Coal Double-Standard at Climate Finance Summit

Activists hijack twitter feed and confront HSBC over discriminatory coal policy Activists continued their campaign against HSBC’s CEO John Flint and his bank’s double standard when it comes to coal finance. As HSBC attempted to paint itself in a green-light (as a sponsor of the UN’s premiere C

Climate , Environment , Health , Sustainable Development , Waste / 10/24/2018

North India chokes as farmers set stubble ablaze

Prasanna Mohanty In the afternoon of October 20, a 40-year-old farmer in Sangrur district of Punjab torched his four-acre field covered with paddy stubble even as the Central Pollution Control Board warned of serious air pollution. The pollution watchdog said in its daily air quality index (AQI) bul

Cities , Environment , Governance , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 07/06/2018

Cities can lead Inter-state cooperation needed to clean up India’s polluted Rivers

There is no policy in India that promotes a holistic approach to conservation of our rivers. We depend on several institutions to safeguard our rivers, that are degrading fast with increased pollution load most of which comes from our cities. Pollution, a great threat to our rivers, however, does no

Education , Environment , Resources , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 06/26/2018

Lewis Pugh to swim across the English Channel to raise awareness for ocean protection

Endurance swimmer and UN Environment Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh announced his plans to swim the entire length of the English Channel – his longest distance ever – to draw attention to the urgent need for ocean protection. He will be the first person to ever attempt to swim the whole length

Data & Reports , Environment , Health , Sustainable Development , Water / 06/25/2018

Uranium ‘widespread’ in India’s groundwater

M. Sreelata Excessive withdrawal of groundwater across India is not only lowering the water table, it is also contaminating water with uranium. According to a study published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, uranium contamination is “an emerging and widespread phenomenon”. I

Environment , Featured , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 06/21/2018

Germany sanctioned for polluting water by industrial farming manure

The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has ruled that Germany breached EU law by allowing manure runoff from farms to pollute water. The court found that Germany allowed an excessive use of manure as a fertiliser, in violation of the limits set out in the EU’s nitrates directive, which aims to redu

Environment , Featured , Resources , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development / 06/09/2018

How a novel wireless technology is helping conserve wildlife, fight pollution, save farmers money and more

Chloe Warren Low-power wide-area networks — LPWANs — are finding application in everything from tracking rhinos in Tanzania to monitoring water quality in Ireland The sun beats down on the dried Tanzanian soils. Dust is slowly settling back down to the ground in the wake of a parade of tourist

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