Inspired By Greta Thunberg, Worldwide Protest Demands Climate Action
Millions of young people flooded the streets of cities around the world on Friday to demand political leaders take urgent...
Earth And Ecology
Millions Of Young People, Led By Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, To Strike For Climate Action
With world leaders about to gather in New York for a UN Climate Action Summit next week, millions of young...
Hundreds Killed In Brazil’s Amazon Over Land, Resources In Past Decade: HRW Report
A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on Tuesday found that more than 300 people have been killed over the past...
Climate Protesters Tell Carmakers ‘The Party Is Over’
Thousands of protesters marched in front of Frankfurt’s IAA car show on Saturday to demand a swift end to combustion...
Teenage Activist Greta Thunberg Takes Climate Protest To Trump
Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who shot to global fame for inspiring worldwide student strikes to promote action against climate change,...
Alaska Seal Die-Off Spurs Government Investigation
US government biologists are investigating the deaths of nearly 300 Arctic ice seals found on Alaska beaches since last summer,...
Japan May Have To Dump Radioactive Water Into The Sea, Minister Says
Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific...
Investing In Climate Adaptation Can Spur Trillions In Benefits: Report
Investing $1.8 trillion between 2020 and 2030 in projects to help communities adapt to the worsening impacts of climate change...
India To Raise Target For Restoring Degraded Land: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced that India would raise its target for restoring degraded land from 21 million...
Hurricane Dorian Floods Island As It Swipes North Carolina Then Heads North
Hurricane Dorian briefly made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Friday, hitting the beach-fringed barrier islands with...
Bahamas Reels From Dorian’s Devastation, Storm Surge Threatens US Southeast
Survivors of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas thronged rescue helicopters on Wednesday and the United Nations said 70,000 people needed...
After Leaving Parts Of Bahamas In Ruins, Hurricane Dorian Now Heads For Florida
Hurricane Dorian smashed parts of the tourism-dependent Bahamas to ruins, leaving relief officials scrambling to battle an unfolding humanitarian crisis...
Amazon India To Weed Out Single-Use Plastic Packaging By June 2020
Amazon.com Inc’s India unit said on Wednesday that it would replace all single-use plastic in its packaging by June 2020...
As Fires Ravage The Amazon, Indigenous Tribes Pray For Protection
As thousands of fires ravage the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, some indigenous tribes are turning to prayer, in a...
6 Single Use Plastic Products To Be Banned
India is set to impose a nationwide ban on plastic bags, cups and straws on Oct. 2, officials said, in...
Manali’s Waste Woes: How Tourism Destroys Tourism
Manali is going through its ‘Klondyke Phase’. The Klondyke Phase is a period of time in which there are immense...
The makings of a digital kleptocracy
When data is monetised, as the Economic Survey advocates, it becomes toxic and harms public interest Last year, I was...
Climate Records Melt as Europe Bakes in Heatwave
Soaring temperatures broke records in Germany, France, Britain and the Netherlands on Thursday, as a heatwave gripped Europe for the...
‘In Line With Int’l Agencies’: Govt Defends GDP Figures after Ex-CEA Arvind Subramanian Claims Over-estimation
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday defended India’s official growth estimates, strongly arguing that these were backed by a statistically rigorous...
न हिमालय बड़ा, न बछेंद्री पाल: 11 टन कूड़ा, 12000 किलो मल और लाशों से एवरेस्ट बदहाल
नेपाल की सरकार ने बुधवार को बताया कि एवरेस्ट की सफाई के दौरान पर्वतारोहियों ने चार शव निकाले हैं और...
