Environment
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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EquiLead to host ‘Lead with Equity’ in Delhi o...
July 22, 2025
Equilead, an initiative, supported by Climate Asia. and Arthan Foundation, committed to accelerating progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG5) by engineering women-led development, is set to host its main event ‘Lead with Equity’ in Delhi on July 29. In a press s...
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BRICS by BRICS : Time to save the climate with bo...
July 18, 2025
In the last fortnight, two meetings were held in two different parts of the world on dealing with climate change and though there was sub-group of participants that was common to both the meetings, the outcomes strikingly varying. The first meeting, a larger gathering, failed to ...
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