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World’s forests in ‘emergency room’

"It’s death by a thousand cuts — the health of the planet is at stake and band-aid responses are not enough," says a U.S.-based study

A handout photo by the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation shows the Rodrigues Fruit Bat on Rodrigues in the Western Indian Ocean on April 23, 2018. Animal and plant species are vanishing — sometimes before we know they exist — at an accelerating pace, but conservationists are pushing back against the juggernaut of mass extinction.

One million species risk extinction due to humans: draft U.N. report

Mango pulp being processed for solar drying at Society for Energy, Environment and Development (SEED); (extreme right) Shyamala Rambhotla

Planet Healers Environment

How SEED hopes to help farmers through solar food processing

Sangeetha Devi Dundoo Helmed by 94-year-old Prof Ramakrishna Rao, SEED’s zero carbon emission solar cabinet dryers may have answers to counter post-harvest losses

Water, home-delivered at Turahalli forest

Ranjani Govind Thanks to this initiative by People For Animals, the inhabitants of Turahalli Forest don’t have to travel far to quench their thirst this summer

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Juvenile oysters grow on shells reclaimed from restaurants as part of the Billion Oyster Project in New York City. The project is reestablishing oyster reefs in the New York Harbor to help revitalize the waters. Photo: Billion Oyster Project

Aw shucks! Can oysters clean up New York Harbor?

Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor When colonists first arrived in New York, the water in the harbor was clean and teeming with marine life. Could that happen again?

Geneva Public Transport (TPG) is conducting tests with a TOSA electric bus for the city of Nantes

In Geneva, an electric bus sips energy at stops

Marc Moulin, Tribune de Genève Thanks to its large capacity and long range, the vehicle saves 1,000 tonnes of CO2 per year

A Terraosave system installed in the boiler room of the Ajinomoto factory in Amiens.

Heating buildings with factory fumes

Amy Serafin, Sparknews A new kind of heat exchanger recycles energy while cleaning pollution from the air

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A wild honey bee sucks honey from the nectar of a wild flower at a wayside tree in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.

Wild bee species critical to pollination on the decline

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‘Genetically modified brinjal illegally cultivated in Haryana’

World’s forests in ‘emergency room’

One million species risk extinction due to humans: draft U.N. report

Water, home-delivered at Turahalli forest

Earth Day: saving the planet may cost $100 billion per year

Wild bee species critical to pollination on the decline

How SEED hopes to help farmers through solar food processing

Helmed by 94-year-old Prof Ramakrishna Rao, SEED’s zero carbon emission solar cabinet dryers may have answers to counter post-harvest losses

IIT grads convert diesel smoke to black ink

Chakr Shield, a retrofit emission control device for diesel generators, captures particulate matters, which is used to produce POink — the POllution INK.

Google Doodle marks 6 unique inhabitants on Earth Day

The theme of this year’s Earth Day was ‘Protect Our Species’ and intended to draw attention to the rapid global destruction and reduction of the world’s plant and wildlife populations.

Aw shucks! Can oysters clean up New York Harbor?

When colonists first arrived in New York, the water in the harbor was clean and teeming with marine life. Could that happen again?

Using the sun to reduce air pollution in Kabul

An Afghan entrepreneur is making environmentally friendly products

Green laundries are saving Moroccan oases

In the Tafilalet oases of southern Morocco, five municipalities have moved from traditional ways of washing clothes to more ecological laundries, thereby reducing pollution and reviving oasis agriculture.

Revolutionary paint offers solution to air pollution

The paint is activated using light energy, enabling the active ingredient to convert NOx into nitric acid

Reforestation in South Korea to prevent fine dust

Seoul’s air quality was “poor” last February 20. In the skies over the South Korean capital, fine particles measuring less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5)

In Geneva, an electric bus sips energy at stops

Thanks to its large capacity and long range, the vehicle saves 1,000 tonnes of CO2 per year

Heating buildings with factory fumes

A new kind of heat exchanger recycles energy while cleaning pollution from the air

Using bacteria and blockchain to clean up oil spills in Nigeria

Since the dawn of Nigeria's oil boom era in the 1970s, the people of the Niger Delta region have had to face its devastating consequences. With more

Composting in Lebanon, one tonne at a time

More than three years after the waste crisis in Lebanon, a new crisis looms. Composting organic waste could be part of a sustainable solution to waste management.

On the threshold of a hydrogen revolution

Two Slovenian inventions could make this green technology affordable

This Argentine city has turned sidewalks into orchards

It is Saturday morning, and time for the volunteers in the garden of the Emilio Ferreyra Municipal Hospital of Necochea, in Buenos Aires Province, to

A sweet way to take care of the environment

Dozens of families in the municipality of Cantarranas, Honduras, are producing traditional panela in an artisanal mill without cutting down a single tree.

The modern Renaissance of Tuscan textile recyclers

Every second, the equivalent of a truckload of fabric is thrown into a landfill or burned, leaching chemicals (such as dye) or non-biodegradable

Sailing, an efficient solution to maritime transport pollution

An increasing number of goods are transported by water, polluting both air and oceans. Several French companies are starting to use sailboats to tackle the situation, which is responsible for tens of thousands of premature deaths.

Israeli startup aims to save the planet from thirst using algae

Pampering the bacteria needed to treat sewage is costly and just replaces one planetary blight with another. Enter Aqwind and its algae.

Over one lakh Olive Ridley turtles enter sea in Odisha

Eggs that were laid in March began hatching on Thursday

This Earth Day, take home a sapling from Puppy's Bakery

...From Puppy’s Bakery all through this month and do your bit for the planet

Visakhaptanam’s zoo curator looks back at her first year in the city

Yeshoda Bai R as curator of Indira Gandhi Zoological Park is enhancing facilities for both the animals and the visitors

2018 tiger census report gets delayed due to ‘new methods’

Officials blame ‘inclusion of more States and huge amount of data’ for the lag

Even remote peaks are not free of microplastics: study

Over a five-month period in 2017-2018, an average of 365 tiny bits of plastic settled every day on each square metre of an uninhabited, high-altitude area in the Pyrenees straddling France and Spain

On climate change, a shift towards civil disobedience

Playing the role of a riot cop dispersing a peaceful but illegal sit-in on the steps of France’s National Assembly, Axel struggled to dislodge a

How to stop plastic from entering the oceans?

It's a race against time. The more than eight million tonnes of plastic that end up in the sea every year become more and more dangerous for marine

In Bengaluru, an open source platform to sort garbage

Around 9 a.m. every day, Rajendran and his team hop into their pickup truck to collect waste from companies in the IT hub Electronics City, in

A social enterprise in Morocco is making ethical bags from recycled plastic

A pioneering recycling project in Morocco combines contemporary fashion design, environmental protection, sustainable development and women’s empowerment.

Giant barriers to keep waste out of the oceans

Sea Defence Solutions stops the flow of plastic before it reaches the sea, with a system of barriers that can catch garbage to send to recyclers.

The Bulk House in China promotes buying less to reduce waste

The Bulk House has been fighting the anti-plastic fight in China for just over a year, promoting zero-waste and a minimalist lifestyle, as well as

Israeli startup converts garbage into construction products

UBQ invented a patented new composite material based on trash that actually decarbonizes the atmosphere in net terms, and uses no water in the process

A Nigerian factory is creating avant-garde furniture from used tyres

Since 2016, Cyrus45factory has been able to upcycle close to 500 tyres, and has received local and international accolades.

Litter-free city: The quest for a model solid waste managementprogram

In recent years, new technologies and initiatives have attempted to address one of humanity’s worst contributions to this planet: trash.But for the

Responsible Hedonism

It might be surprising to learn that Ljubljana, Slovenia, is host to an establishment that claims to be the world’s only restaurant serving “proper

This South Korean company makes drinking straws from rice

Yeonjigonji’s rice straws are harder than typical plastic straws and smell a little like rice, but do not affect a drink’s taste in any way.

A Swiss city encourages residents to reduce waste

The city of Carouge, Switzerland, is conducting an experiment where coaches help families to reduce their incinerated waste by 30 percent in three years.

Is packaging necessary? Not for these shops

The advent of modern food packaging has given us portability, freshness, and a lot of waste. Could a return to a simpler kind of grocery store help us live more lightly on the planet?

An NGO spearheads e-waste recycling in Lebanon

Ecoserv is tackling the thorny issue of electronic waste, a source of dangerous pollution completely ignored by the Lebanese authorities.

Honduras roads are made of plastic bottles rescued from the sea

The Caribbean city of Utila, in Honduras, has found a solution to prevent thousands of tonnes of plastic from going into the Atlantic: turn them into asphalt.

Anti-waste grocery stores in France sell “unsellable” products

Anti-Waste Grocery Stores sell edible unsold food products directly from producers and sells them at heavily discounted prices.

In Argentina, a circus where clowns teach how to recycle waste

Circo Reciclado or Recycled Circus combines art and social impact to educate schoolchildren the importance of three Rs in waste management — reduce, reuse and recycle.

‘Eco’ toilet on Mount Everest

The waste will be collected and brought down the hill

Will the El Nino factor impact the monsoon?

Why we need to watch out for the weather phenomenon synonymous with the Pacific Ocean, which is generally known to suppress rainfall.

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