Indian children’s fiction is taking on the climate crisis. There are now mysteries, picture books, modern fables, and ...

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President Donald Trump has declared the last straw. Or at least the paper ones used by federal agencies. In an executive ...

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With the Indus River at the heart of Pakistan’s economy, ecology, and culture, this ambitious programme aims at securing the future of the country’s most vital water resource, addressing the ...

“The world is facing a plastic pollution crisis, and we can no longer ignore one of the biggest environmental threats facing our oceans and our planet today.” Plastic pollution has been found ...

with plastic pollution escalating at 15 per cent per year. “By 2050, there could be more plastic than fish in the ocean,” she cautioned. Despite some progress, including a shift towards ...

In addition to working with the private sector, other stakeholders, and state, local, Tribal, and Territorial governments to reduce the impact of plastic pollution, it planned to phase out federal ...

Small island nations like Fiji, despite contributing the least to plastic pollution, suffer its worst impacts. Global ocean plastics, projected to double to 300 million tonnes by 2040, further ...

Searching for life in extraterrestrial oceans, like Saturn’s moon Enceladus, may be more challenging than scientists thought. A new study shows that Enceladus' ocean forms distinct layers that prevent ...

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, advisor to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Water Resources, emphasised the urgent need for effective action against plastic pollution. She clarified ...

Bits of plastic ... of water, increasing the amount of plant and algae growth and creating dead zones, fish kills and harmful algal blooms. It remained the dominant issue in Great Lakes pollution ...