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New, Plant-Based Plastics Prepare For Take-Off

Plant-based plastics are only just starting to be more widely accepted. But challenges remain. If new plastics are an industry…

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Can Carbon Markets Help Halt Climate Change?

Putting a price on carbon is seen by many as the ultimate solution to compel countries to reduce their heat-trapping…

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Delhi’s Forest Cover: Green Activists Question Govt Report

After it came to the fore that at least 77,000 trees were either cut or transplanted in Delhi in the…

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EPI: India Ranked Lowest Among 180 Countries

India has been placed at the bottom on a list of 180 countries judged for their environmental performances by US-based…

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The Varied Reasons For Protecting Nature

As spring phases into summer in North America, with trees flowering and birds migrating, nature seems abundant. In fact, however,…

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Walking In The Shadow Of MP’s Massive Floods

Bundelkhand, a region shared by the massive Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, is often in the news…

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Knowing Rapid Evolution Has Limits Can Help With Conservation

Human impacts on global ecosystems can be severe, widespread and irreversible. But life on Earth has evolved to meet environmental…

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North India Caught In Vicious Cycle Of Forest Fires, Heatwaves

Mohan Negi is worried that respiratory conditions are becoming more common across Chamoli district in Uttarakhand, north India. “At least…

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Delhi Turns Into Hot Cauldron At 49 Degrees C

A tormenting heatwave swept through the national capital and its neighbouring areas on Sunday with the mercury leaping to 49.2…

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Climate Change Is Making Floods Worse Too

Super cyclones, known as hurricanes or typhoons in different parts of the world, are among the most destructive weather events…

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‘Our Mountains Are Gone’: Grief As Sacred New Mexico Forests Burn

Forests in Ella Arellano's family for nine generations burned in a day on Monday as fierce winds drove the United…

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Land Degradation: Silence When Alarms Should Be Sounding

In 1992, three UN conventions were established to combat climate change, biodiversity loss and desertification. As their contours were being…

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Saving 700 Trees & Much Ecological Heartache

The Green Meadows Housing Society in Bhopal's Arera Hills area lies at the juncture of old and new city areas.…

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South, Central Asia Reel Under Early Heatwave

For days at a time in early April, people and animals across large swathes of India and Pakistan lay gasping…

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NGT Directs Study On Menace Of Microplastics

The National Green Tribunal has formed a committee and directed it to conduct a study to reduce the menace of…

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Banks Unprepared For Climate Breaking Points

India has always been a land of brutal but predictable weather. Now, the climate crisis is expected to change that,…

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Climate Catastrophe: Carbon Removal Could Help Prevent It

Historically, policies to combat climate change have focused on mitigation: reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. This has not worked. The…

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Advocates Say Nations Must Move Faster To Save Biodiversity

Environmentalists are criticising slow progress at a UN-backed meeting of nearly all the world’s countries toward beefing up protections for…

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How Ultra-Processed Foods Are Trashing Our Health And The Planet

Our world is facing a huge challenge: we need to create enough high-quality, diverse and nutritious food to feed a…

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After B’desh, River Meetings In India Address Riparian Challenges

Rajrajeshwar, a tiny river island (locally called char) in the Meghna River in Bangladesh’s Chandpur district, is home to around…

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Philosophy Caused Our Environmental Mess & Can Fix It Too

(By Michael Paul Nelson, Oregon State University in Corvallis, 360info.org) We better get used to facing tough ethical dilemmas, as…

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Environment Council Will Help Speed Up Action On Climate: Experts

Experts have backed the states’ proposal to set up an environment council, saying it would assist in the development of…

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Pollution Causing More Deaths Than Covid-19: UN Expert

Pollution by states and companies is contributing to more deaths globally than COVID-19, a U.N. environmental report published on Tuesday…

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Glaciers In Karakoram Region Stable, Others Melting Faster: Govt

Glaciers in the Karakoram region are in a stable condition, but those feeding the Ganga and the Brahmaputra river basins…

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Mt Everest’s Highest Glacier To Disappear By Middle Of This Century

Researchers in Nepal have warned that the highest glacier on top of Mount Everest could disappear by the middle of…

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