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India has withdrawn its candidature to host the COP33 United Nations climate conference in 2028, a bid formally announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a global meeting in 2023, senior Ministry o…
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
Microsoft signed a bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) carbon-removal agreement in Canada with North Star Clean Energy, MLTC Bioenergy Centre and Svante, using forestry residues to produ…
8 Apr 2026
A developing El Nino in the Pacific Ocean may intensify into a rare super El Nino, potentially one of the strongest climate events in over a century, with forecasters warning of major disruptions to g…
8 Apr 2026
Cairn Oil & Gas, a Vedanta subsidiary, has begun sourcing renewable power for its Rajasthan oil field operations through a power purchase agreement with Serentica Renewables. The arrangement gives Ind…
7 Apr 2026
A study published in Communications Earth and Environment finds that 10 to 15 per cent of the Sundarbans UNESCO World Heritage mangrove forest, equivalent to 610 to 990 square kilometres, has experien…
7 Apr 2026
A Comptroller and Auditor General audit has found that 315 of the 697 lakes recorded in Jammu and Kashmir in 1967 have disappeared, while a further 203 have shrunk substantially, erasing thousands of …
7 Apr 2026
As climate change makes monsoons more erratic and dry spells longer, canal irrigation is being reframed not merely as a tool for boosting agricultural output but as a foundational form of climate resi…
7 Apr 2026
The Indian government acknowledged in Parliament on 2 April 2026 that artificial intelligence infrastructure carries significant environmental impacts including energy consumption and water use, along…
6 Apr 2026
A study of more than 2,000 insect species across Kenya and Peru finds that many tropical insects are already operating close to their physiological heat tolerance limits, with lowland species most at …
6 Apr 2026
The Karaga festival observed by Bengaluru's Thigala community in Cubbon Park is an 800-year-old tradition that embodies a cultural ethos of reverence for nature, with participants adhering to strict p…
4 Apr 2026
The MoEFCC announced in March 2026 the successful hatching of a Great Indian Bustard chick in Gujarat after nearly a decade, achieved by transporting an incubated egg roughly 770 kilometres from Rajas…
3 Apr 2026
Ethiopia has made a deliberate policy choice to phase out internal combustion engine vehicles and develop an integrated zero-emission mobility system combining electrification, mass transit expansion …
3 Apr 2026
Mango growers in Malihabad, Uttar Pradesh — one of India's most celebrated mango-producing regions — are experiencing recurring crop failures as unseasonal weather events during the critical flowering…
3 Apr 2026
Announced in March 2026, India's SECI completed competitive bidding under the SIGHT Programme to supply 724,000 tonnes per annum of green ammonia across 13 fertiliser units on 10-year contracts. The d…
2 Apr 2026
India accounts for over 56% of all Internationally Recognized Certificates of Compliance issued globally under the Nagoya Protocol, with 3,561 of 6,311 certificates. This leadership in access and bene…
2 Apr 2026
The European Commission published a proposed measure to reform the EU Emissions Trading System's Market Stability Reserve, stopping the automatic invalidation of allowances above the 400 million unit …
2 Apr 2026
Control over digital genetic sequence data from plant and crop genetic resources is emerging as a central battleground in global food governance, with India, Brazil and African nations pushing back ag…
2 Apr 2026
Coal continues to account for nearly 79 per cent of India's domestic energy supply even as renewable energy capacity and generation grow rapidly, with heavy reliance on imported oil and gas exposing t…
1 Apr 2026
TotalEnergies said in its 2026 Sustainability and Climate Report that it cannot formulate net zero targets compliant with European sustainability reporting standards because it cannot adopt a transiti…
31 Mar 2026
Sustainability reporting software provider Novisto announced the acquisition of London-based carbon management company Minimum, combining Minimum's granular carbon inventory capabilities with Novisto'…
31 Mar 2026
A new report by think tank Third Generation Environmentalism finds that over two-thirds of seaborne energy trade depends on a small number of critical chokepoints, with recent disruptions at the Strai…
31 Mar 2026
Field reporting across 15 villages in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh in February 2026 finds that rural households continue to face unreliable electricity, unaffordable clean cooking fu…
31 Mar 2026
From 1 April 2026, oil marketing companies across India are required to sell petrol blended with up to 20 per cent ethanol under the E20 mandate, aimed at cutting crude imports and reducing emissions.…
31 Mar 2026
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