Plastic pollution has emerged as a gigantic problem for the planet and all its inhabitants. While developed countries have been shipping off their plastic waste to poor nations, the European Union has announced new rules for plastic waste consignments – including bans on the export
Marine life has been severely impacted by human-induced climate change and pollution. However, some ecosystems have still managed somehow, for life to thrive. In a recent and huge discovery, scientists have found a formerly undiscovered population of blue whales living in the Western Indian Ocean
With a fast pacing lifestyle, we have accustomed to online shopping trends; and with that habit, we have all contributed to a mountain of discarded packaging waste. The packaging waste is choking the planet, and much of that is ending up in the oceans. Online
While plastic pollution has been bothering the whole planet, few ingenious ideas have been providing the solution to that problem. Rohit Mehra, Additional Commissioner in the Income Tax Department, has put 70 tonnes of waste plastic bottles to good use. The IRS officer creates vertical
With the human population bloating all over the planet, the need to grow more food has risen rapidly and with that the need to expand our agricultural lands has gone up simultaneously. According to recent research agricultural expansion to meet the global food demand will
It was a historic day for the scientific community when in 2016, a gold miner excavating permafrost in Yukon, Canada, in the Klondike gold fields near Dawson City, came across a mummified carcass of an ancient grey wolf (Canis lupus). Then unearthed, the 57,000 years
While the Paris Agreement goals expected to eliminate carbon emissions to hold the surface temperature rise to 1.5 degree Celsius or 2 degree Celsius, the emission-induced temperatures of the past five years have inched the planet even closer to 1.5 degree than previously anticipated. New
The planet has been morphing with the changing climatic patterns and it is affecting every being of the earth. Many wildlife species are threatened and many are facing extinction due to these changes. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recently released an
The fight against plastic pollution is much real and imperative if the planet and its inhabitants are to survive. The non-degradable material has been polluting the earth, and all living species as well. Many people are trying to invent eco-friendly alternatives to various plastic items
While the self-centered humankind thinks of itself as the center of the planet and the universe, it does share this safe haven with millions of other species. An estimated 15 million different species live on earth, but only 2 million of them are currently known