On the 30th June 2020, 1,900 young people joined together at the Virtual Youth Summit in India to celebrate their completion of the Tide Turners Plastic Challenge in India. The challenge is a global initiative to educate young people about plastic pollution. It is developed by the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Clean Seas Campaign, …
Zak Bond, policy officer at the British Lung Foundation writes for Air Quality News about why we can no longer afford to ignore air pollution as we recover from Covid-19. The COVID-19 pandemic has been deeply challenging for us all, leading to some dramatic changes to how we live our daily lives. But one unforeseen benefit has been …
Habitat loss, nutritional deficiencies and lack of varied diet of pollinators is impacting plant and flower growth Climate change has played a major disruptor in several ecological processes, including pollination. The synergy between flowering plants and pollinators plays a key role in the pollination process, but has been adversely impacted by climate change, according to …
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Stockholm, June 20 (IANS) Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg has said that the world needs to learn the lessons of coronavirus and treat climate change with similar urgency. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Thunberg said: “People are starting to realise that we cannot keep looking away from these things… We cannot keep sweeping these …
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Felling trees and destroying the natural habitat have brought human beings and the animal world closer than ever. We can expect more diseases transmitted from animals to us. And much worse Three seemingly unrelated events have caused havoc in recent weeks. Covid- 19 that surfaced sometime in February 2020 is the first. The second is the …
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