Environment
World has collectively vetoed sustainability, repe...
September 22, 2025
At a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on September 18, a single hand rose against a motion which had the support of all the other members present. With that gesture, a call for a ceasefire, supported by almost every country around the world, is silenced. That image ...
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World Ozone Day 2025: Need another Montreal moment...
September 16, 2025
Imagine a patient dying of a mysterious illness. The world’s best scientists identify the cause that there was a poison in his medicine. Nations, for the first time in history, unite to recall the drug. The patient begins to recover. A miracle! But then, the new medicine trigge...
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Ecologists blame faulty infrastructure projects f...
September 13, 2025
As the Monsoon commences its withdrawal from the country, it is leaving behind an unprecedented trail of destruction across large parts of northern India, and notably in the Himalayas, where flash floods and landslides occurred frequently, throughout the season. The Himalayan reg...
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Scientists urge food system overhaul to curb globa...
August 13, 2025
About 21 scientists have issued a prescription to use food systems as a powerful lever to halt and reverse global land degradation, emphasising that this action is critical to mitigating climate change and stopping biodiversity loss. Their report, published in the journal Nature,...
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Over 3.5 million tonnes of carbon emissions curtai...
August 11, 2025
Indian statutory body, Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), that has the mandate to monitor air pollution in and around Delhi and the National Capital Region has reported a reduction exceeding 3.5 million metric tonnes of CO₂ emissions due to biomass co-firing by therm...
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Cities in crisis: Climate change threatens future ...
August 5, 2025
Whenever climate change or global warming is discussed, the spotlight often falls on vanishing glaciers, polluted air, and the thinning ozone layer. But lost in this conversation is a crucial piece of the puzzle, how cities, especially those in India, are being pushed to the brin...
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Human-animal conflict rises in India as forest lan...
July 31, 2025
In 2024, India witnessed a decade-high diversion of forest land, with 29,000 hectares cleared for non-forestry purposes, triggering a rise in human-animal conflicts across the country. This alarming surge in deforestation was accompanied by a 36 pc increase in elephant attacks on...
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Green steel demand in India to rise to 179 million...
July 30, 2025
As India sets an annual target to reach a steel production capacity of 500 million tonnes by 2047, a new report titled Unlocking green steel demand: An assessment of India’s automotive, infrastructure and construction sectors projects the country’s green steel demand to rise ...
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Carbon credits: Climate scam continues
July 26, 2025
Even as global carbon emissions continue to scale new heights and as businesses try to find loopholes to avoid cutting their own carbon footprint, the carbon credit market has rapidly emerged as a key tool in creating the myth of achieving cuts in their emissions. What began as a...
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Path to perdition: Recycling plastic in road const...
July 22, 2025
Earlier this year, scientists revealed startling evidence that concentrations of microplastics in human brains and livers sampled in 2024 are now considerably higher than those found in similar tissues eight years ago. The new findings, published in Nature Medicine, confirmed tha...
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