India’s air pollution kills more than 2 million people a year. The heavily industrialised city of Panipat, around 80km north…
Five billion people use social media globally, and millions of posts are shared on Meta (Facebook) every minute. While a…
Global temperatures have already exceeded 1.5°C warming and may pass 2°C later this decade, according to a world-first study I led. The…
Surat’s textile industry is improving its manufacturing processes with efficient use of coal, electricity and water and by adopting renewable…
Urban agriculture is expected to be an important feature of 21st century sustainability and can have many benefits for communities…
India’s aviation industry is experiencing remarkable growth. The ambitious expansion plans of carriers like Air India and IndiGo are bound…
More than any previous year, this year’s UN climate conference, COP28, is likely to be judged on its ability to…
When people move to the country from the city, they need to change their wardrobes, my research on tree-changers in…
Direct air capture of carbon dioxide faces political and technological challenges but ambitious targets have been set in fighting the…
Slow efforts to decarbonise are blamed on low political will — but time is running out to transition, and a…
The UN claims to be almost entirely climate neutral, yet that claim is based on buying millions of carbon offset credits…
As the world warms due to climate change, threatening millions of lives and livelihoods, nothing is more urgent than clear…
Reducing food loss and waste could improve food security but it may not necessarily lead to expected environmental benefits, according…
The story of wheat as a cultivated crop is nearly as old as that of human civilization itself. Few plants…
Since April, the world has seen record high ocean temperatures and that’s bad news for the plants and animals that…
Last week, United Nations General Secretary António Guterres coined an arresting new term. The era of global warming has ended,…
New research shows that India’s tiger conservation policy has not only helped in preserving and increasing tiger populations, but it…
Globally, the building and construction sector accounts for nearly 40% of energy-and process-related carbon dioxide emissions. To address the climate…
Calling for strategies to tackle residual emissions, scientists said they would need to be balanced by carbon dioxide removal techniques…
Reusing treated wastewater in irrigation in India could have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 1.3 million tonnes in 2021, according…
Source: PTI The world is very likely to miss the most important climate target of limiting global temperature rise to…
(Source: AP) Governments gave their blessing on Sunday to a major new UN report on climate change, after approval was…
Cities are major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, globally producing more than 60% of planet-warming gases. At the same time,…
Over the past few months, huge chimneys have been belching thick smoke incessantly on the outskirts of Meerut city in…
(Source: PTI) Earth’s average surface temperature in 2022 tied with 2015 as the fifth warmest on record, according to an…
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