Environment
Earth Overshoot Day: Urgent need for ‘Ecological...
July 30, 2026
Every year, finance ministers around the world present their national budgets, promising to stay within the limits of their self-imposed limits for fiscal deficits. Similary, companies publish their balance sheets, showing that they managed to hold their expenses within limits fo...
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UN experts call for release of Adivasi rights defe...
July 21, 2026
A group of United Nations (UN) experts has expressed concern over the arrest and detention of five Indigenous human rights defenders in Assam, warning that the charges against them could undermine the work of those protecting Indigenous Peoples’ or Adivasi rights in the con...
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UNESCO warns against gaps in global science
July 15, 2026
Science is expanding across the world, but access to research, funding and collaboration remains uneven. A new report by the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) says that developing countries continue to face barriers that limit participation, ev...
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70 environmental organisations urge DRC to retain ...
July 7, 2026
A coalition of more than 70 environmental and human rights organisations has called on the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to maintain its national moratorium on new industrial logging concessions, warning that lifting the ban could open tens of millions ...
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Urbanisation threatens specialist frogs in Western...
June 29, 2026
The Western Ghats, that stretch from southern Gujarat to the tip of Peninsular India in Kerala, support over 250 amphibian species, but a new study tracking frog communities in a Tier II city in Karnataka has found that urban expansion is not reducing species counts so much as tr...
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Make polluters pay for record heatwave in Europe, ...
June 26, 2026
As Europe experiences an unprecedented June heatwave, climate advocacy group climate campaign group, 350.org has called on governments to impose permanent windfall taxes on fossil fuel companies to help cover the mounting health costs caused by climate change-induced extreme heat...
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Europe caught in vicious circle of record heatwave...
June 26, 2026
There is an unmistakable irony in this moment. The continent that gave the world the Industrial Revolution, modern refrigeration and much of the advanced technological architecture of the 20th century, is now struggling to find a technology that will help it break the vicious cir...
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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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