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Brazil sinks warship in Atlantic Ocean despite pollution risk
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Brazilian Navy sank a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean despite carrying toxic materials, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday.
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Study links adoption of electric vehicles with improved health
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
In the first study to use real-world data to correlate electric cars, air pollution, and health, a team of researchers from USC's Keck School of Medicine has begun to chronicle the actual impact of electric vehicle adoption. Using publicly available records, the researchers examined a "natur
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Pollution control, better health system among others should be in BMC budg
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal (Administrator) to prioritise pollution control, strengthening of the health system, administration transparency, and city's beautification while making
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Study links use of electric vehicles with lower air pollution, better heal
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Electric vehicles are touted as a crucial tool for reducing emissions and combating climate change, but research on the dual advantages of lower air pollution and better health has been largely speculative.
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As Delhi air quality improves, Stage-II curbs under GRAP lifted
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
With air quality in Delhi remaining in the 'moderate' category for a second consecutive day with 164 (moderate) readings as per Central Pollution Control Board's 4 pm national bulletin, pollution control authorities have revoked the curbs enforced in Delhi-NCR under stage II of the Graded Re
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Research finds soil tainted by air pollution releases carbon
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New UC Riverside research suggests nitrogen released by gas-powered machines causes dry soil to let go of carbon and release it back into the atmosphere, where it can contribute to climate change, suggests the findings of UC Riverside's new research.
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Turner and Monet paintings hold clues to air pollution
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Joseph Mallord William Turner and Claude Monet's paintings have been known to mirror the atmospheric conditions in which artists painted. Anna Lea Albright and Peter Huybers developed a statistical model to determine whether the paintings of British artist J. M. W. Turner and French artist C
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IIT Roorkee researchers working on technologies to tackle Plastic, e-Waste
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A research group headed by Prof. K K Pant, Director, IIT Roorkee, is working on e-waste Conversion to Valuable Products and Metal Recovery, which is a generation of wealth via a zero-waste discharge concept.
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Tamil Nadu: DMK, Opposition parties spar at meeting called to seek views o
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Tensions escalated between DMK and opposition parties at a public meeting conducted by Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board seeking opinions on 'Pen Statue' erection plan at Marina Beach on Tuesday.
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BJP slams Kejriwal over biomass burning by security guards contributing to
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Bhartiya Janta Party MP from Delhi Parvesh Verma slammed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for saying that biomass burning by security guards and drivers is one of the sources of pollution in the national capital.
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CM Kejriwal launches mechanism to collect real-time Delhi pollution data
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday launched a supersite with "state-of-the-art" air analysers and a mobile air quality monitoring system for a real-time "source apportionment study" to identify the sources of air pollution in Delhi.
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Policy of adopting import substitutes, pollution-free fuels in offing; 9 l
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
More than nine lakh vehicles, owned by central and state governments, transport corporations and public sector undertakings, that are older than 15 years will go off the road from April 1 and new vehicles will replace them, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Monday.
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