EQ: Ganga Rejuvenation, Largest Solar Plant, and Food Security

EQ: Read about all things green, build your environment quotient.

E-India

• Managing the Ganga with contractors:
The environment minister has announced that the ministry is considering hiring the contractors who clean the Ganga to maintain it too. The minister also announced that pollution in the river is down to a third of its levels last year.

E-Mage

• Fines for dust pollution:
The Delhi government has decided to fine vehicles carrying construction material and waste up to INR 5000 if they are found to be violating environmental norms.

E-Video

• For your weekly dose of cuteness watch this video of Nora, Columbus zoo’s adorable polar bear cub here:

E-Waste

• Guinness Record for waste recycling class!
CGS Manion of Coimbatore has achieved a Guinness World Record by teaching an hour long class on segregating waste at source to 12,994 people at the same time.

E-Renewables

• Pictures from the world’s largest solar plant:
Last week, we told you about the world’s largest concentrated solar plant. This week, see pictures of the plant which is located in the Moroccan desert.

1 Million

The number of homes to be powered by the Moroccan solar plant

E-Law

• Stop burning waste!
The NGT has come down sharply on the burning of waste by municipal corporations in the Delhi NCR. This practice continues in spite of a previous NGT ban on the practice.

E-International

• Did you know that climate change could end up changing flight times?
A new report predicts that climate change will impact the speed of the jet stream – a high speed wind which is critical for flights crossing the Atlantic. This could result in quicker times when crossing from the ocean from east to west but slower times on the return trip.

E-Nature

• Climate change and Food Security:
A new article notes that climate change is likely to have a huge impact on India’s food situation by reducing food productivity and changing crop boundaries.

E-Technology

• An air cleaning car?
The CEO of Jaguar has claimed that the newest generation of Euro VI diesel cars can “clean the air in Delhi.” The claims have been called “crazy” by the environment minister and environmentalists have also criticised the CEO’s comments.

E-Quiz

• Where in India are the Mangar Bani forests located?
(a) Haryana
(b) Andaman & Nicobar islands
(c) Assam
(d) Maharashtra

(Shalini Iyengar is a lawyer and Research Associate at the International University College of Turin.)