World Oceans Day

With an aim to find innovative solutions to the problem of plastic waste in the country, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has launched a two-month long ‘plastic hackathon’ targeting students and households to come up with alternatives for plastic and to improve plastic waste management ...

New Delhi: Oceans cover more than 71 percent of the planet, host up to 80 percent of life on earth and account for 96 per cent of all ...

World Oceans Day 2021: Padma Shree awardee and sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a sculpture featuring the marine life at Puri beach in Odisha ...

To stop plastic waste from entering the ocean, the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences will assess the extent and source of marine litter along India's coastline ...

Be It Turtles Or Elephants, 5 heart-wrenching pictures that summarise why this World Oceans Day we need to resolve to beat plastic pollution ...

According to United Nations there will be more plastic in the world's oceans by 2050 than fish ...

Top things to know about World Oceans Day and what is choking the oceans. The need of the hour is to check indiscriminate dumping of plastic into the oceans ...

On World Oceans Day, Internationally acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creates a picturesque sand art with a message - 'Save Our Oceans' and 'Stop Plastic Pollution' ...

Actor and United Nations Environment Goodwill Ambassador for India, Dia Mirza, appealed everyone to #BeatPlasticPollution on World Oceans Day ...

In an ambitious move to make India free from its waste woes, the government launched a massive waste management campaign in 4000 cities across the country on June 5, the World Environment Day. The main motive behind this massive campaign by the government is to implement the practice of waste segregation at source across cities. And on June 8, the World celebrated Oceans Day to highlight the challenge faced by oceans due to indiscriminate dumping of waste, especially plastic waste. ...

Businessman and philanthropist Richard Branson presented a petition to the UN General Assembly, urging governments to protect at least 30 per cent oceans by 2030 ...

Every year, more than eight million tons of plastic ends up in the ocean, costing at least $8 billion (7.1 billion euros) in damage to marine ecosystems and killing an estimated one million sea birds, 100,000 sea mammals and untold numbers of fish. ...