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Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav has confirmed that the Sundarbans' climate vulnerability, mangrove ecosystem and Royal Bengal tiger habitat will be central topics at the International Big C…
20 May 2026
Stingless bees, ancient tropical insects distributed across Asia, Africa, Australia and South America, possess significant ecological, medicinal and economic value that remains largely unrecognised in…
20 May 2026
British International Investment and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners have jointly launched North Star, a $300 million platform focused on developing solar, wind, hybrid and energy storage projects …
19 May 2026
India's planned expansion of steelmaking capacity could lock the country into nearly 1.2 trillion US dollars in coking coal imports and 19.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over the next 40 yea…
19 May 2026
Delhi and the National Capital Region are under a yellow heatwave alert with temperatures forecast to reach 45 degrees Celsius in isolated pockets, while environmental campaigners claim that densely p…
19 May 2026
Wildlife management experts are calling for a reclassification of wild habitats into three distinct tiers — strict protected areas, sustainable-use zones and human habitation zones — to better balance…
19 May 2026
Women in India carry a disproportionate and underacknowledged health burden from rising heat stress, yet climate and public health policy frameworks have been slow to address the gendered dimension of…
19 May 2026
Replacing input-intensive rice-wheat cropping systems with leguminous crops could significantly reduce India's agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, which account for 16 per cent of the country's tot…
19 May 2026
Singapore investment company Temasek is expected to miss its 2030 portfolio decarbonisation target, according to CEO Dilhan Pillay, citing major shifts in geopolitics, energy markets, technology, and …
19 May 2026
Yakten, a village in Sikkim's Pakyong district that was promoted as India's first digital nomad village, is now undertaking detailed hydrological mapping and spring recharge interventions to plan for …
18 May 2026
Decentralised renewable energy systems are transforming rural livelihoods in India, particularly for women-led enterprises that have historically been constrained by unreliable grid electricity and co…
18 May 2026
Childhood and adolescent obesity continues to rise rapidly in many low- and middle-income countries even as rates slow, stabilise or slightly decline in several high-income nations, according to a maj…
17 May 2026
Delhi's seasonal heat pattern is shifting from the traditionally harsh but dry conditions characterised by the loo wind toward more persistent, humid heat that provides less overnight recovery and pos…
15 May 2026
India is increasingly examining small modular reactors as a potential complement to solar and wind energy in addressing the country's rapidly growing electricity demand, driven by industrial decarboni…
15 May 2026
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the US-Israel war with Iran has cut off roughly 18.4 million barrels per day of oil and 110 billion cubic metres of annual LNG trade, according to a May 2…
15 May 2026
India generates over 500 million tonnes of agricultural residue annually, and the eight-state Northeast region holds significant untapped potential to transform this waste stream into economic value t…
15 May 2026
Sustainability-focused private equity investor Lightrock has raised $500 million in commitments for Accelerate7, a new fund targeting clean energy access and clean cooking solutions across Sub-Saharan…
15 May 2026
The Indian Council of Medical Research and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research jointly launched Mission SEHAT — Science Excellence for Health through Agricultural Transformation — on May 11, 2…
15 May 2026
Devastating thunderstorms that struck Uttar Pradesh on May 13 and 14, 2026, killing more than 117 people, produced wind speeds comparable to those of very severe cyclones in several affected districts…
15 May 2026
India's informal waste pickers — estimated at between 1.5 million and 4 million workers — manage 60 to 70 per cent of urban recyclable waste and underpin the country's recycling system, yet they remai…
15 May 2026
New York-based ECOncrete has raised $14 million in new funding to scale its technology for improving the ecological sustainability of marine infrastructure, having deployed its solutions across more t…
15 May 2026
New Zealand's government announced on May 12, 2026 that it will amend the Climate Change Response Act 2002 to prevent courts from finding companies liable in private tort cases for climate change-rela…
14 May 2026
Bureau Veritas has launched Supply Chain Engagement, a new module on its AITrack sustainability platform designed to help companies collect and validate product-level emissions data from their supplie…
14 May 2026
A new CDP report reveals that companies are projecting $898 billion in losses from extreme weather events, with flooding alone accounting for $528 billion of anticipated financial impact through lost …
14 May 2026
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