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20 Dec 2021

Young turtle rescued with a gut full of plastic waste

A young turtle defecated almost a dozen of bits of plastic and trash after being rescued in a fishing net off the coast of Argentina

03 Feb 2021

Chennai techies have underwater wedding: Clad in Dhoti, Sari Tamil Style

Underwater wedding desi style - groom clad in a Dhoti and Shirt, Bride in a sari, amid decorations and cameras, at a depth of 60 feet. The decision to go underwater was to try something different, besides creating awareness about ocean pollution.

Gangasagar Mela

14 Jan 2020

Devotees visiting Gangasagar get cloth bags to curb use of single-use plastic

Till now the volunteers have distributed 25000 cloth bag in the Gangasagar Mela which were made by using nearly 4000 cloths. According to the West Bengal government, nearly 50,000 devotees will visit Gangasagar to take holy bath in 2020.

22 Sep 2017

Multinationals aggravating ocean pollution: Greenpeace NGO

The environmental non-profit, along with the Break Free From Plastic Campaign, carried out a study about ocean pollution that included an audit of plastic waste spanning 30 hectares in Manila Bay.

09 Jun 2017

Ganga second-most polluting river in world; China's Yangtze tops the list

The study added that two-thirds of the pollution comes from the 20 most polluting rivers, with majority of them in Asia.

08 Jun 2017

Plastic in rivers major source of ocean pollution: Study

Researchers at The Ocean Cleanup - a Dutch foundation developing new technologies for ridding the oceans of plastic - say rivers carry an estimated 1.15-2.41 million tonnes of plastic into the sea every year, an amount that need between 48,000 to over 100,000 dump trucks to carry it away.

12 May 2017

India plans automated ocean pollution observation

India is all set to opt for automatic observation of pollution in the ocean to crunch data that will aid the tourism industry and could also come in handy in countering allegations levelled by developed nations against the country being a major polluter

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