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Minimum temperatures across multiple Indian cities have remained abnormally high during the 2026 summer, narrowing the gap between daytime and night-time temperatures and creating continuous heat stre…
1 May 2026
Denmark-based early-stage venture capital firm Kompas VC has completed the final close of its second fund, raising €160 million to invest in startups targeting industrial productivity, resilience, and…
30 Apr 2026
A global assessment of 1,855 tropical Marine Protected Areas found that four of six key coral regions have higher domestic wastewater pollution inside protected zones than in adjacent unprotected wate…
30 Apr 2026
New York City's public pension funds have cut their portfolio greenhouse gas emissions footprint by nearly half since 2019, exceeding interim targets on the path to their 2040 net zero goal. The three…
30 Apr 2026
Octopus Energy Generation has agreed to invest US$500 million in afforestation and reforestation projects developed by nature-based solutions company Living Carbon on degraded land across the United S…
30 Apr 2026
India's power sector recorded its slowest electricity generation growth in six years — just 3 per cent year-on-year — in the fourth quarter of FY 2025-26, even as renewable energy continued to expand …
30 Apr 2026
India's electricity demand hit a record 256 GW on 25 April 2026, driven by an intense heatwave with average maximum temperatures ranging between 40°C and 45°C across the country. Renewables supplied 3…
30 Apr 2026
A coalition of 57 countries representing roughly one-third of global GDP agreed at the first global Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels conference in Santa Marta, Colombia on an action-oriented imple…
30 Apr 2026
Canadian banks Scotiabank and RBC have withdrawn their 2030 interim targets to reduce financed emissions in key carbon-intensive sectors, citing policy uncertainty, slower-than-expected technology dev…
30 Apr 2026
New York City's pension funds have declared that asset managers BlackRock and Fidelity remain 'insufficiently aligned' with the system's net zero investment expectations, raising the prospect of manda…
30 Apr 2026
The Yabgo Dynasty Palace in Turtuk, Ladakh, built with metre-thick stone walls and small deep-set windows, maintains habitable interior temperatures in a high-altitude cold desert using no energy inpu…
29 Apr 2026
Bhutan, a carbon-negative country constitutionally bound to maintain more than 60 per cent forest cover and absorbing 6 to 12 million tonnes of CO2 annually, is suffering increasing climate impacts it…
29 Apr 2026
A new PwC report finds that 82% of companies are maintaining or accelerating their climate targets, challenging the narrative that corporate sustainability commitments are retreating under political p…
29 Apr 2026
California's Air Resources Board is weighing three distinct approaches to implementing Scope 3 emissions reporting under SB 253, with the decision expected to shape the credibility and comparability o…
29 Apr 2026
A UNICEF and Dalberg report finds that climate-related disasters disrupted the education of 130 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa between 2005 and 2024, generating an estimated US$1.3 bi…
29 Apr 2026
Infrastructure-amplified floods and landslides caused losses exceeding Rs 13,000 crore in Himachal Pradesh by August 2025, the highest since the 2013 Kedarnath disaster, according to state government …
29 Apr 2026
IBM has announced the general availability of the IBM Envizi Emissions API, enabling companies to embed GHG Protocol-aligned greenhouse gas emissions calculations directly into their existing software…
29 Apr 2026
Adani Green Energy has announced plans to deploy more than 10 GWh of battery energy storage in the current financial year and approximately 15 GWh or more annually from the following year, sustained f…
29 Apr 2026
A PhD researcher at Utrecht University has used climate models to test whether closing the Bering Strait with a dam could stabilise the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, finding that in som…
29 Apr 2026
A United Nations University report warns that meeting global climate targets will require a nine-fold increase in lithium demand and a doubling of cobalt and nickel demand by 2040, with extraction con…
29 Apr 2026
Research on blue waxbills and trumpeter hornbills in South Africa shows that high humidity significantly reduces birds' ability to cool themselves through evaporation, lowering the air temperature thr…
29 Apr 2026
Dutch insurance and financial services company Achmea has published its Climate and Nature Transition Plan 2026, setting out goals to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its operations and …
28 Apr 2026
Global sustainability management consulting firm Sustainserv is hosting two Boston Climate Week events on May 7 and 8, 2026, focusing on corporate climate solutions and the assessment of nature-based …
28 Apr 2026
A report released on Earth Day, April 22, 2026 by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, Greenpeace Africa and GroundWork estimates that postponing the retirement of coal-fired power plants …
28 Apr 2026
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