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Rural employment under MGNREGA has effectively ground to a halt since April 2026 as local officials await central guidelines for the replacement Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission…
17 Apr 2026
A study published in Climate Dynamics drawing on more than 80 years of weather data shows that the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation, the same atmospheric system that drives the monsoon's active…
17 Apr 2026
The IPCC commenced work on its 2027 Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies and CCUS, holding its first Lead Author Meeting from 14–16 April 2026 in Rome with over 150 experts. The h…
16 Apr 2026
The current issue examines how the US-Israel war on Iran and the Hormuz blockade are reshaping global energy markets and accelerating demand for renewables, alongside India's updated climate commitmen…
16 Apr 2026
A study published in Nature Cities analysing two decades of satellite imagery and socio-economic data from 5,503 cities and towns across 32 African countries found that green-blue climate adaptation p…
16 Apr 2026
BluPine Energy reported achieving 100% carbon neutrality across Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions in FY25 through renewable energy use, operational optimisation and carbon offsets, disclosed in its FY25 S…
15 Apr 2026
India is preparing to launch the second phase of the PM-KUSUM agricultural solar scheme with an explicit shift from pump deployment targets to addressing the rural grid infrastructure constraints that…
15 Apr 2026
Global fossil fuel-based power generation fell approximately 1 per cent year-on-year in March 2026, the first full month following the Strait of Hormuz blockade, with the decline entirely offset by a …
15 Apr 2026
The World Economic Forum published "Turning the Tide: A Financier's Guide to Investing in Blue Carbon Ecosystems 2026" on 14th April 2026, introducing a Blue Carbon Investment Framework to mobilise pr…
14 Apr 2026
A new AI-driven forecasting model called PROLONG projects onshore wind reaching 25 per cent and solar 20 per cent of global electricity by 2050, sufficient for a 2C pathway but not the 1.5C target. Th…
14 Apr 2026
Field reporting across Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh finds that women in forest-fringed villages continue to collect firewood daily despite holding LPG connections, as rising cylinder prices and unr…
14 Apr 2026
India's National Green Tribunal and pollution control bodies issued a series of environment orders on 13 April 2026, covering air quality improvement targets in Madhya Pradesh, canal de-siltation in W…
14 Apr 2026
A 1,000 megawatt solar park proposed in Assam's Karbi Anglong district, backed by a $672 million Asian Development Bank loan, is displacing around 25,000 Karbi, Naga and Adivasi residents from 2,396 h…
14 Apr 2026
Short, intense hailstorms are causing escalating damage to apple orchards across Kashmir, with storms now clustering between April and June and striking during the critical flowering stage when crops …
14 Apr 2026
In the summer of 2024, Uttar Pradesh experienced India's longest stretch of extreme heat since 2010, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius for an entire month and over 44,000 heatstroke cases…
13 Apr 2026
India is targeting a 25% reduction in steel-sector emissions intensity while raising production capacity to about 300 million tonnes by 2030 from around 180 million tonnes, per a government roadmap re…
10 Apr 2026
The National Green Tribunal's central bench on 9 April 2026 ordered respondents to file replies and directed the formation of a joint committee to investigate allegations of uncontrolled sand quarryin…
10 Apr 2026
Global average temperatures in March 2026 were 1.48 degrees Celsius above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it the fourth-warmest March on record, according to the Copernicus Climate Chang…
10 Apr 2026
Metropolis Healthcare Limited's ARSH (Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health) Initiative has reached over 3.25 lakh adolescents across more than 1,000 villages, delivering reproductive health, nutr…
9 Apr 2026
India and the broader South Asia region launched a new South Asia Heat and Health Hub to strengthen regional coordination on extreme-heat preparedness, data sharing and climate-resilient healthcare. T…
9 Apr 2026
India added a record 6.05 GW of wind energy capacity in FY 2025–26, a 46% increase over the prior year, taking cumulative wind capacity past 56 GW, per the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. The re…
9 Apr 2026
Field observations along the Srinagar-Gulmarg Road in Kashmir documented over 70 waste heaps along a 10-kilometre stretch, with clear evidence of regular burning including charred plastic and ash resi…
9 Apr 2026
India supplies 85 per cent of its drinking water and two-thirds of its irrigation needs from groundwater, and has built an extensive network of recharge infrastructure including over 20 million pumps …
9 Apr 2026
The National Green Tribunal ruled on 6 April 2026 that the National Highways Authority of India should have disclosed to the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change its plan to constr…
9 Apr 2026
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