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Jan 18, 2025 | 
sportskeeda.com | Ravleen Kaur
Gabby Thomas won three gold medals in the 2024 Paris Olympics and took the track and field by storm. Thomas, who specialized in 100m and 200m races, discussed several things on “2 Miles with Olympic Sprinter Gabby Thomas” with Mackz, influencer and YouTuber. In one of the segments, Thomas revealed how she felt the challenges and overcame them with consistent hard work.
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May 8, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Ravleen Kaur
Udaiveer Singh has been running a tender coconut stall in Nangal, a city in Punjab, for six years now. He buys 1,200 coconut pieces every six days from an agent in Jalandhar, who, in turn, gets his supplies from Karnataka. “Initially, people would consume tender coconut water only during summers. So, I sold fruit juice in the winters. However, in the last two years, tender coconut has remained in demand throughout the year,” said Singh.
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May 3, 2024 | 
india.mongabay.com | Ravleen Kaur
An increase in the consumption of tender coconut and its products is leading to an increase in tender coconut husk in landfill sites and on road corners. Solid waste management experts say that there are technologies to recycle tender coconut husk into value added products, but the lack of source segregation makes their retrieval difficult.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
india.mongabay.com | Ravleen Kaur
Nurdles, the tiny plastic pellets used as feedstock for making plastic products, are becoming dangerous as they spill into land and waterways during transportation. Animals mistake nurdles for food, causing fatalities while putting plastic into the food chain.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
india.mongabay.com | Ravleen Kaur
Gujarat produces 80% of India’s salt. Most of it is produced in coastal areas which are impacted by unpredictable rainfall and cyclones. As production in coastal salt works has reduced, and demand for edible and industrial salt as well as exports has increased, prices have gone up. Salt manufacturers, however, say that there is no scarcity as new areas are coming under salt production.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Ravleen Kaur
“Mithu barabar che?”(is the salt alright?) asked Ruksana as she served a meal of prawn rice. The harmless query brought sarcastic smiles as the family sat around a large plate, all eating from one plate, as is the custom in Miyana families. “Salt is on everybody’s mind these days,” said Haider Aamad Katiya, a community elder at a fishing settlement in Venasar, a village on the edge of the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat’s Morbi district. “There was a time Agariyas and fishers coexisted peacefully.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
news.khabriya.in | Ravleen Kaur
by Ravleen KaurIn December 2022, India became the world’s third-largest automobile market, surpassing Japan. The sector accounts for around 7% of India’s gross domestic product (GDP). As the vehicle market expands, there is a corresponding growth in the Indian tyre market. Tyre production in India rose by 21% in 2022 and a further 6% in 2023, reaching a total production of 217.4 million units in a year.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
india.mongabay.com | Ravleen Kaur
With a rising demand for vehicles, there has been a corresponding increase in the use of tyres leading to more waste tyres. Scrap tyre comes under the category of hazardous waste owing to its potential to cause fires and resultant toxic emissions in air and water. The government introduced extended producers’ responsibility for waste tyres in 2022 but data shows that the tyre production industry has not started complying yet.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
india.mongabay.com | Ravleen Kaur
Surat’s textile industry is improving its manufacturing processes with efficient use of coal, electricity and water and by adopting renewable energy, to deal with the impacts of climate change and also be eco-friendly. While liquid effluents are being dealt with by following good practices, the use of fossil fuels and the generation of petrochemical-based fabric waste, still remain problems.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Ravleen Kaur
Diesel fumes and dust hit as one climbs the Surajbari bridge in the Kutch district of Gujarat. The noise from trucks and trains follows. As the eyes stretch beyond the bridge, there are salt pans – as if a huge wetland has been cut into plots by mud embankments. On the map, Gujarat looks like an open mouth. Surajbari is the joint where this mouth opens to the Gulf of Kutch and the vast Arabian Sea.
