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Data from the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs' March 2026 progress report shows 47,901 Community Forest Resource claims have been rejected across India, alarming experts who say arbitrary denials and…
8 Jun 2026
The Global Zero Waste Forum convened in Istanbul from June 5 to 7, 2026 with participation from over 500 partners across governments, UN agencies, cities, businesses and civil society, including more …
7 Jun 2026
Across Odisha, Adivasi and forest-dependent communities are restoring and protecting forests through collective governance systems rooted in cultural memory, customary law and everyday stewardship, of…
5 Jun 2026
Pan-African banking group Ecobank launched a $450 million Nature Bond — the world's first ICMA-aligned Nature Bond issued by a commercial bank — with proceeds targeted at smallholder farmers, sustaina…
5 Jun 2026
JPMorganChase has signed a second carbon removal offtake deal with San Francisco-based Charm Industrial, purchasing 61,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide removal credits from Charm's US bio-oil sequestratio…
5 Jun 2026
The International Organization for Standardization launched ISO 32212, a new standard providing a common framework for net zero transition planning across financial institutions, covering lending, ins…
4 Jun 2026
Enterprise sustainability platform Sweep and product carbon footprint company HowGood announced a partnership to provide food and agriculture companies with ingredient- and product-level emissions dat…
4 Jun 2026
India's five most populous states — Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal — performed poorly across environment, agriculture, health and human development metrics in the St…
4 Jun 2026
The Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth magazine released the State of India's Environment 2026: In Figures report on June 4, 2026, revealing deeply concerning trends across climate, …
4 Jun 2026
India's implementation of the Approved List of Models and Manufacturers List-II domestic content requirement from June 1, 2026 has triggered concern across the solar manufacturing industry, as domesti…
3 Jun 2026
Canadian parliamentarian and former Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault announced his resignation from the government, citing Canada's decision to support a new oil export pip…
3 Jun 2026
Andhra Pradesh's Community Managed Natural Farming programme has won the 2026 Food Planet Prize, awarded by Sweden's Curt Bergfors Foundation and worth $1.5 million, recognising its work with 1.8 mill…
3 Jun 2026
Khasi farmers in Meghalaya's Eastern West Khasi Hills district are reviving traditional farming systems by reducing chemical use, restoring indigenous crops and adopting mixed cropping and composting …
3 Jun 2026
The International Big Cat Alliance, launched by India in 2023, is building global cooperation across 95 big cat range countries to protect tigers, lions, leopards, snow leopards, cheetahs, jaguars and…
3 Jun 2026
The UK government has released its proposed seventh carbon budget, targeting an 87% reduction in economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 relative to 1990 levels. The budget sets a cap of 535 mil…
2 Jun 2026
Delhi recorded its hottest night in 14 years on May 25, 2026, with the minimum temperature reaching 32.4°C, according to a new CSE report that links the trend to urbanisation, loss of green and blue s…
2 Jun 2026
The Open Group announced the publication of the Open Footprint Standard, Edition 1.0, the first open emissions data model to address Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions in a unified framework. The standard is …
2 Jun 2026
As Delhi records extreme summer heat driven by both climate change and poor urban design, a commentary argues that environmentalism must evolve beyond nature protection to encompass the built environm…
2 Jun 2026
A new review published in the Geomicrobiology Journal documents the diversity and ecological roles of fungi in Indian cave systems, from the limestone caves of Meghalaya to the basaltic formations of …
2 Jun 2026
Country submissions to COP30's two roadmap processes — on transitioning away from fossil fuels and on halting deforestation by 2030 — reveal wide differences in national priorities shaped by developme…
1 Jun 2026
A commentary argues that Indian cities must develop well-lit, safe night parks as public infrastructure for heat adaptation, public health and social inclusion, challenging the routine closure of urba…
1 Jun 2026
The European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism could increase global greenhouse gas emissions reductions by 73 percent compared with EU climate policy acting alone, according to a new study b…
1 Jun 2026
A new study by Azim Premji University projects that coastal districts in Gujarat and Maharashtra will receive considerably higher southwest monsoon rainfall by 2040, while coastal Odisha and West Beng…
1 Jun 2026
A March 2024 Supreme Court judgment in MK Ranjitsinh v Union of India placed the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard — with only 50 to 249 mature individuals estimated to survive — at the centr…
30 May 2026
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