Wondering how to dispose-off your out-of-fashion Vespa scooter that is neither doing you nor the environment any good? Well, the Spanish design studio Bel & Bel shows you an inventive way to put this polluting, petroleum-powered scrap to good use in a corporate set up. The studio brought forth a chain of office furniture made [...]

Environmental activism is getting interesting. There is more action than just slogan campaigns. There was Earth Day where world went dark for an hour and now World Carfree Day was celebrated on September 22. The campaign urging people to leave cars in garages for one day is very innovative.  Do check out the campaign and [...]

The alarming pollution levels in China have now become a global concern. Fueled by the spoils of its fast emerging economy, the people of China have become voracious consumers, an effect of what some call as the country’s ‘money-induced euphoria.’
This consumerism has brought about a need for raw materials. Upwards of 75 percent of all [...]

Coral reefs are some of the most battered life forms due to global warming. Coral bleaching and collapse of entire reef ecosystems are occurrences largely blamed on imbalances in the equilibrium of marine environments such as changes in ocean temperature, pollution, overfishing, unsustainable fishing practices, sedimentation, acidification, and oxidative stress. Today, estimates peg the destruction [...]

According to Amnesty International (AI), the oil pollution in the Niger Delta has deprived tens of millions of people from their most fundamental right to food, water, and health. In a thick report, AI describes the environmental degradation in the delta where about 31 million people live. The group calls it a tragedy of human [...]

It is widely said that the poor countries are hardest hit by the ill effects of climate change. The question now is: are they even aware of what climate change is all about? Do the supposed victims even know their tragedy?
According to authoritative estimates, ‘99 percent of the casualties linked to climate change occur in [...]

Here is something that might interest you! We have just discovered a watch with an environmental cause called “The Green Watch”. The watch first of its kind is released in Paris allowing the citizens to monitor the environmental quality of their city enabled by the presence of environmental sensors. The citizens who wear the watch [...]

All metros in India face a dearth of proper safe public transport system. Commuters have no choice but to take risks and avail cheapest, sub standard and highly unsafe mode of transport every day. Every day hundreds are killed in road, train accidents but yet complete overhaul of the system does not figure in any [...]

That water is a precious and increasingly scarce resource is something that New Delhi knows very well. When summer arrives and temperatures rise in the city, most parts of the capital of the second most populous country in the world still has only four hours of water readily available at the tap everyday.
The rest of [...]

Water scarcity, pollution, and sanitation were the main talking points in the Ministerial-level talks among more than 100 ministers from 190 participating countries meeting at the recent World Water Forum in Istanbul. The main premise is that water has become one of the world’s worsening problems. The content of heated debates is whether water should [...]