EQ: Tryst With Odd-Even, Mass Whale Deaths, Carbon Tax and More

EQ: Read about climate change, wildlife, alternate energy, raise your environment quotient.

E-India
• Delhi Odd-Even: Success, failure, or something in between?
With the Delhi government’s odd-even plan completing its second week, conflicting reports have begun to emerge about the scheme’s achievements.

E-Mage

• Mass death of whales in coastal Tamil Nadu:
The tragic death of over 45 whales after being stranded on the beach is being attributed to a variety of causes including man-made environmental reasons, sound from ships and magnetism.

E-Video

• How have humans impacted global air quality? Watch this NASA video here:

E-Economy

• Climate change the biggest threat to the global economy:
The 2016 Global Risks Report by the World Economic Forum has highlighted climate change impacts as the most worrying threat to the world’s economy in 2016.

E-Law

• SC upholds odd-even plan:
Calling a challenge to the plan a “publicity stunt”, the Supreme Court strongly backed the Delhi government’s efforts. The court added that pollution was killing the people of Delhi and individual concerns had to bow before the “common good”.

E-International

• Carbon tax on planes and ships:
The International Monetary Fund has called for a carbon tax of $30 per tonne of CO2 on the shipping and aviation industries. Such a tax would act as a source of carbon finance and, if in place, would have raised an estimated $25 billion in 2014.

E-Waste

• More gold from e-waste than mining:
A senior academic has claimed that proper management and recycling of e-waste could yield rich dividends. He noted that with proper processing, one million cellphones could yield 50 pounds of gold and 20,000 pounds of copper.

• 5-10 percent of e-waste is recycled in India.

E-Nature

• Climate change could delay the next Ice Age:
Man-made global warming may have already altered the earth’s atmosphere so much that the next Ice Age could be delayed by 100,000 years.

E-Architecture

• Weird, yet wonderful – an underwater sculpture garden:
The sculptor responsible for the world’s first underwater sculpture park is putting the finishing touches to his latest masterpiece, the Musea Atlantica. The park is intended to be “colonised” by the marine world, making the project even more surreal.

E-Quiz

• Sanjay Gandhi National Park is a rare green oasis in an urban setting. Which Indian city is it located in?
(a) Delhi
(b) Chennai
(c) Kolkata
(d) Mumbai

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