Bioplastics are developed as an alternative to the petroleum-based plastics. Increased use of petroleum-based plastics is associated with producing more greenhouse gases. Bioplastics are not just one single...
In the second week of January 2016, around 80 short-finned whales had beached near Mandapu village in Tutucorin district of Tamil Nadu. Of them more than 40 whales...
The Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 (FCA) governs diversion or use of forest land for non-forest purposes such as industrial or infrastructure projects. A company diverting forest land must...
During the last summer season, the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Odisha experienced severe heat waves and there were more than 2000 deaths, making it one of...
The Montreal Protocol is the international treaty on protection of Ozone layer from the Ozone Depleting Substances and to phase-out its production and consumption by 1 January 2010. This...
Aiming to increase forest cover of India the 14th Finance Commission for the first time has recast its fiscal transfer formula, according to it the share of central...
Whenever we hear about Climate Change we usually relate it with increasing levels of greenhouse gases, trapping heat and thereby causing global warming. But this need not to...
Global-warming potential (GWP) is a relative measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas traps in the atmosphere. It compares the amount of heat trapped by a certain...
Coral bleaching is the loss of intracellular endosymbionts through either expulsion or loss of algal pigmentation. When corals are stressed by changes in conditions such as temperature, light,...
