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The Indian landmass was on average 0.9 degrees Celsius warmer during 2015-2024 compared to the early 20th century baseline, with parts of north India warming at 0.2 degrees per decade over the past th…
26 Feb 2026
Nine named storms between January 16 and February 17, 2026 brought extreme rainfall to Spain, Portugal, and Morocco, with observational analysis showing climate change increased rainfall intensity by …
26 Feb 2026
On February 19, 2026, Zimbabwe launched a national rollout of Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable PrEP, beginning with 46,000 doses across 24 priority sites for high-risk populations. Backed by the…
25 Feb 2026
Godrej Enterprises Group expanded its community-led water conservation programme across water-stressed districts in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and other regions, focusing on groundwater recha…
25 Feb 2026
Seven of nine planetary boundaries identified by researchers have now been breached, with ocean acidification joining climate change, biosphere integrity, land system change, freshwater change, modifi…
25 Feb 2026
India now has an estimated 3,682 tigers across five major landscapes, up from around 1,400 in the early 2000s, but wildlife biologist Qamar Qureshi warned at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2026 that many r…
25 Feb 2026
Former Supreme Court judge Deepak Gupta has said Indian courts are no longer as proactive in protecting the environment as they once were, with procedural compliance increasingly used to justify proje…
25 Feb 2026
Moist heatwaves during India's southwest monsoon season are controlled by the active and break phases of the monsoon and can be predicted two to four weeks in advance, offering critical lead time for …
25 Feb 2026
German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom has announced that it has achieved company-wide climate neutrality across its operations, meeting its 2025 net-zero Scope 1 and 2 emissions target. The…
25 Feb 2026
India's forests have been increasing in greenness, contributing roughly 7 per cent to global carbon sinks despite covering only 2 per cent of global forest area, but their ability to translate that gr…
25 Feb 2026
The Government of India, via the Press Information Bureau, detailed a waste-to-wealth roadmap to convert the 350 million tonnes of agricultural waste generated annually into resources through biomass …
24 Feb 2026
Nike Japan and Mitsui and Co. have signed a virtual power purchase agreement covering renewable energy certificates from 16 domestic solar power plants in Japan, enabling Nike Japan to source 100% of …
24 Feb 2026
Nearly three decades after its enactment, the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act 1996 remains unevenly implemented across India's tenth states and 77,564 villages in Fifth Schedule Areas, w…
24 Feb 2026
A menstrual hygiene drive in Bihar's Bhojpur district, led by an elected woman representative known as the "Pad Wali Mukhiya," distributed reusable sanitary pads and ran door-to-door awareness session…
23 Feb 2026
The sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity concluded without agreement on several key issues, forwarding numerous recommendations to COP17 in …
23 Feb 2026
India's total installed renewable capacity reached 251 GW by October 2025, meeting its original 2030 non-fossil capacity target five years early, but a new analysis by IEEFA and Ember finds that clean…
23 Feb 2026
The global fashion industry faces operating margin losses of 3 per cent by 2030 and profit cuts of up to 67 per cent by 2040 if it fails to accelerate climate response, according to a report by the Ap…
23 Feb 2026
DHL Global Forwarding has launched its GoGreen Plus Portfolio, a suite of shipping decarbonization products including a new offering that provides a 10% emissions reduction at a flat rate across all m…
23 Feb 2026
The World Meteorological Organization launched initiatives to strengthen extreme-heat resilience across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka through upgraded impact-based forecasting and …
21 Feb 2026
Uttar Pradesh's environment minister AK Saxena led a February 18, 2026 review demanding rapid execution of the World Bank-backed Uttar Pradesh Clean Air Management Project (UPCAMP), approved in Decemb…
20 Feb 2026
Chemical company INEOS has received a €300 million grant from the French government to install energy-efficient technologies and decarbonize its petrochemical site in Lavera, France, reducing CO2 emis…
20 Feb 2026
French nature-based solutions platform hummingbirds has raised €50 million (USD 59 million) in a Series A financing round from Swedfund, Proparco, and British International Investment, to scale its po…
20 Feb 2026
The highly saline zone of the Southern Indian Ocean off southwest Australia has decreased in area by 30 per cent over the past six decades, representing the most rapid freshwater increase observed any…
20 Feb 2026
India's biopesticide sector requires an adaptive regulatory framework with mandatory post-market surveillance, time-limited approvals, and structural safeguards against industry capture, according to …
20 Feb 2026
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