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Business Insider India
02 Jun 2023, 10:32
Choose hybrid vehicles over electric and conventional ones if you actually want to be sustainable, IIT Kanpur study saysChoose hybrid vehicles over electric and conventional ones if you actually want to be sustainable, IIT Kanpur study says

Choose hybrid vehicles over electric and conventional ones if you actually want to be sustainable, IIT Kanpur study says

According to the study, manufacturing, using and scrapping EVs in India surprisingly produces 15-50% more greenhouse gases than conventional and hybrid cars. Most of this comes from the fact that even clean electricity originates from coal-powered plants in our country (about 75% of India’s total), which spew an exorbitant amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
World's first weather report to include 'plastic rain' forecasts 50 kg of microplastic falls over Paris
Business Insider India
29 May 2023, 15:29

World's first weather report to include 'plastic rain' forecasts 50 kg of microplastic falls over Paris

According to the report, the city will experience about 40-48 kilograms of free-floating plastic bits daily. Scientists warn that this number could skyrocket — even tenfold! — if the rain becomes heavy. Most of these microplastics have originated from nylon and polyester, the researchers reckon. Clothing and tyre bits are the most likely suspects.
A heating El Niño could end up costing the world economy $84 trillion by 2099, exacerbate ocean warming
Business Insider India
25 May 2023, 18:37

A heating El Niño could end up costing the world economy $84 trillion by 2099, exacerbate ocean warming

We are well aware of how high maintenance El Niño events are, with the two costliest cycles in the last 60 years putting the world economy back by about $4-5 trillion, each. Furthermore, about 56% of all countries had to endure slowed economic development even five years after the event had passed.