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India's peak power demand surged to approximately 256 gigawatts on 25 April 2026 as a severe heatwave spanning the entire subcontinent pushed temperatures between 43°C and 47°C across north-central an…
28 Apr 2026
Muni Narayana Prasad, a philosopher, author and leader of the Narayana Gurukula in the Nilgiris who produced more than 130 books in Malayalam and English and consistently argued that ecological degrad…
27 Apr 2026
A survey of 1,034 sustainability leaders across 15 industries finds that voluntary Scope 3 disclosure has risen to 73%, up from 49% in 2024, yet nearly half of respondents report limited confidence in…
27 Apr 2026
Schneider Electric's SE Advisory Services has launched Resource Advisor+ for Climate Risk, a new solution designed to help companies assess and manage exposure to physical climate hazards across their…
27 Apr 2026
A report by International IDEA released on 22 April 2026 documents that at least 94 elections in 52 countries have been disrupted by extreme weather events over the past two decades, with 23 elections…
24 Apr 2026
India's steel sector depends on imports for around 90 per cent of its metallurgical coal requirements, even as 64 per cent of upcoming steel capacity expansion — totalling 382 million tonnes per annum…
24 Apr 2026
An El Nino event is developing in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean in 2026, raising the risk of severe droughts across South Asia and southern Africa and destructive flooding in western South America, acc…
24 Apr 2026
A study led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and published in Nature Ecology and Evolution projects that 36 per cent of existing land vertebrate habitats will be exposed to at leas…
24 Apr 2026
India is preparing to embed disaster resilience requirements directly into engineering, procurement and construction contracts and public-private partnership agreements, following a new report by the …
23 Apr 2026
India's 332.1 million active domestic LPG connections have been placed under severe supply stress by disruption in the Strait of Hormuz triggered by the US-Israel military action on Iran, prompting ca…
23 Apr 2026
The European Commission has released its AccelerateEU strategy, outlining measures to reduce the EU's reliance on imported fossil fuels and tackle rising energy costs through accelerated electrificati…
23 Apr 2026
More than 50 nations are meeting in Santa Marta, Colombia to discuss a potential standalone treaty managing the phaseout of coal, oil and gas, in a historic summit that predates but has been dramatica…
22 Apr 2026
Dutch environmental group Milieudefensie has launched a second lawsuit against Shell, demanding the energy company halt new oil and gas field development and progressively cut emissions between 2030 a…
22 Apr 2026
Earth Day 2026 commentary by Environmental Defense Fund's India advisor argues that the gap between global climate negotiations and community-level action remains the primary obstacle to effective env…
22 Apr 2026
Tourist arrivals in Lahaul Valley surpassed one million in 2024 following the 2020 opening of the Atal Tunnel, creating year-round connectivity that has driven sustained growth from 130,000 visitors i…
22 Apr 2026
A study published in Functional Ecology analysing 14,921 cavity-nesting bees and wasps from 161 sites in Bavaria finds that warmer temperatures consistently advance emergence after hibernation across …
22 Apr 2026
India hosted two of the world's 25 largest methane-emitting landfill sites in 2025, at Secunderabad in Telangana and Mumbai in Maharashtra, according to satellite-based analysis by the Stop Methane Pr…
22 Apr 2026
Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz following US-Israel military action has cut approximately 20 per cent of the world's oil and gas supply, creating acute energy scarcity and forcing governments t…
21 Apr 2026
A survey of more than 7,000 business leaders across G7 countries by BSI found that 78% will continue pursuing net zero regardless of political uncertainty because it is good for business, while 83% re…
21 Apr 2026
Companies are increasingly turning to satellite-based monitoring, particularly data from ESA's Copernicus Sentinel-2 program, to verify deforestation-free supply chains and support credible ESG report…
21 Apr 2026
The World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings concluded on April 18, 2026, in Washington with the United States openly calling for the expiry of the Bank's second Climate Change Action Plan, under which 45 p…
21 Apr 2026
University of Edinburgh spinout Exergy3 raised GBP 10 million equivalent to approximately USD 13.5 million in a seed funding round to scale its ultra-high temperature thermal energy storage technology…
21 Apr 2026
Annual potential burning hours for wildfires in North America have increased by 36 per cent between 1975 and 2024, according to a study published in Science Advances that analysed nearly 9,000 fires l…
20 Apr 2026
India's National Biodiversity Authority approved policy and institutional measures strengthening access and benefit-sharing, conservation and compliance under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 at its…
18 Apr 2026
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