Environment
Greenpeace urges FIFA World Cup fans to support Co...
June 18, 2026
As the national football team of the Democratic Republic of Congo returns to the FIFA World Cup after 52 years, Greenpeace Africa has called on football supporters to use the occasion to raise awareness about the protection of wildlife and forests in the Congo Basin. In a press s...
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Cockroaches not pests, primordial for biodiversity...
June 9, 2026
But away from all this political drama about cockroaches, just 10 days after the comments by CJI, on May 25, a research team comprising scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) released the genetic bar-code library of cockroaches to uncover hidden native diversity. A ...
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Communities force temporary halt to Glencore coal ...
June 3, 2026
Operations at El Cerrejón, one of the world’s largest open-pit coal mines, located in Colombia, have been temporarily halted after Afro-Colombian and Wayuu Indigenous communities blocked coal railway lines demanding accountability from mining company Glencore, says climate adv...
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Indian coasts face fast-moving climate crisis, war...
May 29, 2026
As part of its ‘Indian Coastal Region: Climate Projections 2021-2040’ report, Azim Premji University in Bengaluru, has warned that India’s coastal regions are entering an imminent climate crisis over the next two decades, with rapidly narrowing adaptation windows driven by ...
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India ranks 172 of 180 nations in Nature Conservat...
May 23, 2026
Amid rising climate risks and accelerating biodiversity loss worldwide, BioDB, a non-profit focussed on biodiversity data, in collaboration with the Goldman Sonnenfeldt School of Sustainability and Climate Change at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, has released the N...
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Water crisis could hit India’s credit rating, wa...
May 12, 2026
You have just released a report on the Asian water infrastructure. What is the most critical finding of that report? The most important finding or outcome, if I were to choose one, is that we need to think of the water cycle as an important infrastructure, as something we need to...
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AIIB calls for water to be treated as critical inf...
April 30, 2026
Global water security is emerging as a critical macroeconomic and development challenge, with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) calling for the hydrological cycle to be treated as essential infrastructure, as rising pressures of scarcity, excess, pollution and varia...
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Spotlight on controversial Great Nicobar Island pr...
April 29, 2026
Attempts by Indian authorities to obstruct Rahul Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, from visiting Great Nicobar Island failed as Gandhi managed to reach the ecologically-sensitive area to highlight concerns over a major project that the government claims will make the...
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With mounting cost of fossil fuels on households, ...
April 16, 2026
Amid rising global concerns over energy affordability and ongoing oil price shocks, climate campaign group 350.org has launched its report Out of Pocket: How Fossil Fuels Are Draining Households and Economies, highlighting how continued dependence on fossil fuels is placing a sig...
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India’s updated NDCs fall short of transformativ...
April 11, 2026
On March 25, more than a year after it was due, the Union Cabinet quietly approved what may be the most consequential document India has submitted to the international community in recent years. India’s third Nationally Determined Contribution, its updated climate action pl...
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