Garbage girl in a new clean cause
British national Jodie Underhill, 35, is pledged to “leave nothing but footprints” as she leads a team of volunteers to set up waste disposal pits in the heights of Chamba district ahead of a fortnight-long Manimahesh pilgrimage beginning Aug 22. Tens of thousands will undertake an arduous 14-km trek from the Hadsar base camp to the oval-shaped More...
Britain to campaign for saving rhinos
Rhinos are being slaughtered across Africa at the rate of nearly one a day by criminal gangs for their horns – now worth more than heroin, cocaine or gold, Daily Express reported. These pachyderms are poached More...
Energy-consuming light bulbs to go out in Hong Kong
The administration has launched a three-month public consultation on whether to restrict the sale of such light bulbs, taking into account replacement options for these bulbs, Xinhua reported. Electrical and Mechanical More...
Forests remove 2.4 bn tonnes of carbon from air
The volume of the greenhouse gas mopped up by all categories of forests has been quantified for the first time by scientists. “What this research tells us is that forests play a much larger role as carbon More...