As per recently released World Economic Forum (WEF) report, oceans will have more plastics than fish by 2050 if the ongoing practice of dumping plastics continues. This report...
Bharat Stage Emission Standards (BSES) are regulatory norms set by the Government of India to control the output of air pollutants from internal combustion engine equipment, including vehicles....
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) with the help of concerned State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs) and Pollution Control Committees (PCCs) is monitoring the ambient air quality in the...
The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1981 was enacted to prevent, control and abate air pollution in India. It was introduced to address the increasing levels...
Thermal pollution refers to degradation of water quality caused by changes to the ambient water temperature. Common causes include the discharge of cooling water by power plants and...
Spread of chemicals, particles, industrial, agricultural and residential waste, noise or the invasive organisms in the marine is the Marine Pollution. Toxins bioaccumulate in Zooplankton and phytoplankton and...
Persistence is an important characteristic of the environmental pollutants in an environmental medium (air/ water/ soil) or in a living tissue, in which the pollutants remain active for...
Almost 70 per cent of India’s surface water resources and a growing percentage of its groundwater reserves are contaminated by biological, toxic organic and inorganic pollutants. In many...
Biofertilizers are substances which contain living microorganisms which, when applied to seed, plant surfaces, or soil, colonize the interior of the plant and promote growth by increasing the...
Union Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has decided to implement the stricter emission norms of Bharat Stage (BS) VI from 1st April 2020 in a bid to...
