Environmental stories tagged with: india

Thanks to WEEE, a European-wide scheme requiring electronic producers to take-back our old electronic items, we are sending less of our e-waste to landfill than ever before.  Have you ever thought what happens to our e-waste?  According to some Greenpeace investigations, they are being illegally dumped in India, China, Ghana and other developing nations as "second-hand goods".

Carbon dioxide emissions associated with UK consumption increased by 115 million tonnes (18%), between 1992 and 2004.

Climate change is likely to undermine food production in the developing world, while industrialised countries could gain in production potential, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said on Tuesday in a speech at the M.S. Swaminathan Foundation Conference in Chennai, India.

The greenest day of the calendar in India and a tree planting record by 600,000 volunteers 10.5 million trees planted in Uttar Pradesh, India, in a single day.