Between 15 and 22 June this year, more than 150 people died in two hospitals in Ballia and Deoria districts,…
A study found the formation of plastic-rock hybrids in the intertidal zone of remote beaches of Aves Island in the…
Palm oil has become essential to India’s food security in the past three decades, replacing other edible oils such as…
In recent years, the planet has confronted a series of growing environmental challenges. At the UN, in 2022, the struggles…
Neema Devi sits with her sister-in-law, Prema Devi, threshing wheat by hand in the village of Dhudholi, in the Indian…
By 2050 around 145 million people in the Global South could be forced to relocate within their own countries due…
The key sentence in the most comprehensive report to date on the Hindu Kush Himalayan “cryosphere”, or icy areas, is…
The frequency and duration of heatwaves have been increasing in India due to global warming. This year too, the month…
As global temperatures rise, trees in colder areas are benefiting from an extended growing season. A longer growing season results…
Students pursuing graduation will now have to study subjects like environmental education. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has recently instructed…
A crisis is unfolding quietly, behind the serenity of Darjeeling's world-famous tea gardens. Climate change is affecting the production of…
This year, a large proportion of Indians living in the central, western and south western parts of the country heaved…
As disaster management authorities in both Gujarat in India and Sindh in Pakistan evacuate coastal residents, issue alerts, and earmark…
The latest Earth Commission Report attached a “justice” framework to its earlier discourse of “safe” planetary boundaries, which are the…
With an El Nino weather cycle set to amplify temperature extremes, TV meteorologists have a vital role in communicating the…
After the natural disaster in Joshimath, Uttarakhand, geologists and activists working on environmental protection in Sikkim are a worried lot. Like…
Noise pollution is known to cause significant disturbance to marine wildlife, including migratory species protected under the Convention on the…
You might have seen organic food products at your local grocery store. But what is the process that goes into…
Heatwaves have been going through some extraordinary changes in recent history. Since midway through the 20th century, their intensity, frequency…
Researchers have stated that climate change made the heatwave that hit Bangladesh, India, Thailand and Laos in April 2023 at…
A recent UN report has suggested that the next five years could be the hottest on record as global temperatures…
After some hard-fought victories, women’s rights are threatened again in many parts of the world. In the United States, the…
In recent months, numerous reports of dangerous avalanches in the Himalayas have made the headlines. These sudden releases of snow,…
The book, Climate Justice in India, a collection of insightful and well-researched articles by a dozen of the finest scholars…
Source: PT, DW Extreme weather, climate and water-related events caused 573 disasters in India between 1970 and 2021 that claimed…
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