Environment
Pregnant women especially vulnerable to air pollut...
December 29, 2025
Air pollution has long been recognised as a silent aggressor infiltrating lungs, straining hearts and shortening life expectancy. But emerging scientific evidence suggests its reach extends far beyond the respiratory system, quietly influencing women’s reproductive health, incl...
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India needs China as a partner to combat air pollu...
December 26, 2025
As the year 2025 yields to 2026, it signals the start of a key, landmark year which marks the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between India and China, a relationship that has seen periods of intense tumult as well as long stretches of time when both neighbours and ancien...
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Uproar over SC ruling on Aravallis intensifies
December 23, 2025
A wave of protests has erupted across North India as citizens and environmentalists unite against the Supreme Court’s decision to accept the proposed move of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MOEFCC) that removes protection from an overwhelming proportion...
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Death by breath in Delhi: Irate residents complain...
December 18, 2025
Every winter, a thick blanket of smog descends over India’s capital, but this year the impact has been far deeper and more relentless. For well over a month, now, polluted air has disrupted health, livelihoods and mobility, forcing citizens, from night shelters and middle-class...
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Tamil Nadu official Supriya Sahu among UNEP 2025 C...
December 10, 2025
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced its 2025 Champions of the Earth, recognising five outstanding leaders driving bold action on climate change. In a press statement, UNEP says that these trailblazers focus on critical areas including climate justice, sustainable ...
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COP30: Bitter betrayal in Belém
November 24, 2025
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, one of the strongest advocates for environment and the developing world, and the Head of State of the host country of COP30 Climate Change meeting, had branded climate change conference in Belém as the ‘COP of Truth and Implem...
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COP30: Flood of climate finance needed, not a tric...
November 16, 2025
Amazon is the largest river in the world by discharge volume of water. That generous water volume is poured into Atlantic Ocean where the city of Belem is situated. And that is the site of the 30th Conference of Parties (COP30) to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Ch...
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Global North violating Paris Agreement commitments...
November 12, 2025
At the ongoing global climate summit, COP30, that is under progress at Belem in Brazil, Climate Action Network, a coalition of climate action organisations from around the world, has released a report highlighting the failure by Global North countries in cutting down fossil fuel ...
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World needs a rare ‘Earth-Deal’, not another â...
November 3, 2025
If you ever needed proof that humanity is not suffering from a climate-crisis but from a leadership-crisis to deal with climate change, look no further than Busan in South Korea. Just 15 days before global climate negotiations in COP30, the global climate change summit as the wor...
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Manipulated data, ponds of drinking water: BJP’s...
November 2, 2025
As has been the norm over the past many years, in the days following Diwali this year, too, Delhi reclaimed the dubious title of the city or at least the capital with the worst air pollution in the world, a status that it ‘earns’ every year after a boisterous, smoke-filled Di...
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