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- Climate & Nature
Metropolis Healthcare ARSH initiative reaches 3.25 lakh rural adolescents
Metropolis Healthcare Limited's ARSH (Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health) Initiative has reached over 3.25 lakh adolescents across more than 1,000 villages, delivering reproductive health, nutr…
- Climate & Nature
India and South Asia launch Heat and Health Hub for climate resilience
India and the broader South Asia region launched a new South Asia Heat and Health Hub to strengthen regional coordination on extreme-heat preparedness, data sharing and climate-resilient healthcare. T…
- Climate & Nature
India adds record 6.05 GW wind capacity in FY 2025–26
India added a record 6.05 GW of wind energy capacity in FY 2025–26, a 46% increase over the prior year, taking cumulative wind capacity past 56 GW, per the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. The re…
- Climate & Nature
IUCN Uplists Emperor Penguins and Antarctic Fur Seals to Endangered Status
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has uplisted both the emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal to Endangered on its Red List of Threatened Species, citing climate change-driven se…
- Climate & Nature
India Withdraws Offer to Host COP33 Climate Summit in 2028
India has withdrawn its candidature to host the COP33 United Nations climate conference in 2028, a bid formally announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a global meeting in 2023, senior Ministry o…
- Climate & Nature
NGT Rules NHAI Failed to Disclose Waterbody Construction Plans
The National Green Tribunal ruled on 6 April 2026 that the National Highways Authority of India should have disclosed to the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change its plan to constr…
- Climate & Nature
India's Groundwater Infrastructure Supplies 85 Percent of Drinking Water Nationally
India supplies 85 per cent of its drinking water and two-thirds of its irrigation needs from groundwater, and has built an extensive network of recharge infrastructure including over 20 million pumps …
- Climate & Nature
Open Waste Burning Across India Adds to Carbon Emissions and Air Pollution
Field observations along the Srinagar-Gulmarg Road in Kashmir documented over 70 waste heaps along a 10-kilometre stretch, with clear evidence of regular burning including charred plastic and ash resi…
- Climate & Nature
Microsoft signs BECCS carbon removal deal with Canadian Indigenous-owned project
Microsoft signed a bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) carbon-removal agreement in Canada with North Star Clean Energy, MLTC Bioenergy Centre and Svante, using forestry residues to produ…
- Climate & Nature
Forecasters Warn Developing El Nino Could Intensify Into Rare Super Event
A developing El Nino in the Pacific Ocean may intensify into a rare super El Nino, potentially one of the strongest climate events in over a century, with forecasters warning of major disruptions to g…
- Standards & Frameworks
GHG Protocol releases Phase 1 update on Scope 3 standard revision
The GHG Protocol published its Phase 1 Progress Update in March 2026 for revising the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, introducing Data Quality Indicators and a new "Other Facilitated Activit…
- Climate & Nature
Cairn Oil & Gas sources round-the-clock renewables for Rajasthan fields
Cairn Oil & Gas, a Vedanta subsidiary, has begun sourcing renewable power for its Rajasthan oil field operations through a power purchase agreement with Serentica Renewables. The arrangement gives Ind…
- Climate & Nature
Irrigation Canals Emerge as India's Critical Climate Resilience Infrastructure
As climate change makes monsoons more erratic and dry spells longer, canal irrigation is being reframed not merely as a tool for boosting agricultural output but as a foundational form of climate resi…
- Climate & Nature
CAG Audit Finds 315 Jammu and Kashmir Lakes Have Vanished Since 1967
A Comptroller and Auditor General audit has found that 315 of the 697 lakes recorded in Jammu and Kashmir in 1967 have disappeared, while a further 203 have shrunk substantially, erasing thousands of …
- Climate & Nature
Study Finds 15% of Sundarbans Losing Climate Resilience Over 25 Years
A study published in Communications Earth and Environment finds that 10 to 15 per cent of the Sundarbans UNESCO World Heritage mangrove forest, equivalent to 610 to 990 square kilometres, has experien…
- Sustainable Finance
ICVCM Report Sets Out Integrity Requirements for Transition Credit Approaches
A new report from the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market's Continuous Improvement Work Program examines integrity requirements for transition credits — carbon credits generated from the…
- Climate & Nature
Centre Acknowledges AI Infrastructure's Energy and Water Footprint in Parliament
The Indian government acknowledged in Parliament on 2 April 2026 that artificial intelligence infrastructure carries significant environmental impacts including energy consumption and water use, along…
- Climate & Nature
Tropical Insects Approach Heat Tolerance Limits as Climate Change Accelerates
A study of more than 2,000 insect species across Kenya and Peru finds that many tropical insects are already operating close to their physiological heat tolerance limits, with lowland species most at …
- Climate & Nature
Bengaluru's Karaga Festival Reflects 800-Year Tradition of Nature Worship
The Karaga festival observed by Bengaluru's Thigala community in Cubbon Park is an 800-year-old tradition that embodies a cultural ethos of reverence for nature, with participants adhering to strict p…
- ESG Movers
Himalaya Wellness launches rural waste management programme across three Karnataka villages
Himalaya Wellness Company launched the 'Namma Swachha Adakamaranahalli' initiative to build decentralised waste management systems across three villages in Karnataka, centred on Adakamaranahalli. The …
- Climate & Nature
Great Indian Bustard chick hatches in Gujarat after near-decade conservation effort
The MoEFCC announced in March 2026 the successful hatching of a Great Indian Bustard chick in Gujarat after nearly a decade, achieved by transporting an incubated egg roughly 770 kilometres from Rajas…
- Climate & Nature
Climate Disruption Devastates Malihabad Mango Orchards in Uttar Pradesh
Mango growers in Malihabad, Uttar Pradesh — one of India's most celebrated mango-producing regions — are experiencing recurring crop failures as unseasonal weather events during the critical flowering…
- Climate & Nature
Ethiopia Pursues Integrated Zero-Emission Mobility Strategy Across Urban Transport
Ethiopia has made a deliberate policy choice to phase out internal combustion engine vehicles and develop an integrated zero-emission mobility system combining electrification, mass transit expansion …
- Climate & Nature
SECI allocates 724,000 tonnes of green ammonia to 13 Indian fertiliser units
Announced in March 2026, India's SECI completed competitive bidding under the SIGHT Programme to supply 724,000 tonnes per annum of green ammonia across 13 fertiliser units on 10-year contracts. The d…