Team L&M In a bid to create awareness about the need to maintain environment, a group of people from Kolkata have decided to undertake a 1000 km walk titled From Hill to Sea. The 33-day walk began on Feb 19 from Tiger Hill of Darjeeling and will culminate at Sagar Island, South 24 Parganas, West […]Read More
Team L&M It is high time that the government installs centralised plants for treatment of bio-medical waste. It is not only important for maintaining public safety and health but also for the preservation of environment. The situation is alarming, particularly in Delhi-NCR region wherein mushrooming hospitals and clinics have led to a lot of medical […]Read More
Team L&M Delhi-NCR is turning into the world’s e-waste dumping yard with the capital alone getting 85 per cent of waste generated in the developed world. And by 2020, in all likelihood the region will generate about 1,50,000 metric tonnes (MT) of e-waste annually. These shocking facts were revealed in a study done by the […]Read More
Team L&M In a bid to give a fresh lease of life to the wetlands that are forever under the threat of construction activities and encroachment, the union environment ministry has notified the new Wetland (Conservation and Management) Rules 2017. The new rules prohibit various activities in wetlands like setting up and expansion of industries, […]Read More
Team L&M It is not just the soild municipal waste that we need to worry about. Another kind of waste that the hi-tech days we are living in, has given is the electronic waste also called e-waste. You will be surprised to know that globally we produce 47.8 million tonnes of e-waste. And as per […]Read More
Team L&M Shree Sharavi Mahaganapathi Temple in Mangaluru did something innovative this Ganesh Chaturthi. Rising to the increasing global warming that has become a threat to the environment, the temple management opened a counter for Vriksha Seva on the day. The counter had saplings of 21 kind of trees, each sapling priced at Rs 50. […]Read More
Team L&M As the citizens of Mumbai enjoyed Ganeshotsav celebrations, dirtying the city’s beaches in the process, a group of 50 students from ITM Group of Institution’s Eco Club swooped down there for a Clean Beach Drive. Armed with brooms, gloves and masks, the students cleaned up the beach, filling up around 100 bags with […]Read More
Team L&M The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has approved three projects for climate change adaptation, one each in the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Sikkim. In Rajasthan, the project builds on work carried out under Phase I of the Mukhya Mantri Jal Swavlamban Abhiyan to enhance the adaptive capacity of villages by […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Another World Environment Day just passed. As has always happened, this time too, many organisations held programmes to espouse the cause of environment. Paintings competitions, lectures, tree plantations and cloth bag distribution happened in these events. But I cannot help but question the utility of it all. Not just the need of […]Read More
Team L&M Considering the present scenario of waste management in India, where most of the waste is dumped without treatment, it would require an estimated 88 square kilometer (sq. km.) of precious land to be brought under waste disposal through landfilling by 2050, which is equivalent to the size of area under administration of New […]Read More
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