The government has come up with a plan to discourage crop burning to improve air quality in Delhi. The plan envisages measures including creation of fodder banks, composting paddy waste on the farm, involving unemployed youth for managing field waste and using new machines such as the Happy Seeder.

With 15 of its cities among 30 cities with highest levels of toxic air in the country, Uttar Pradesh is India's most polluted state, says a Greenpeace India report.

New targets have been set for third phase of the Jal Swavalamban Abhiyan to make Rajasthan self-reliant in the water sector.

India's tiger census, which began in end-2017, will see coordination with Bhutan, Nepal, and Bangladesh, in estimating the territorial spread of the animal in the subcontinent. While India has engaged with Nepal and Bangladesh in previous tiger counts, this is the first time all countries are uniting in arriving at tiger numbers, particularly in regions with shared borders.

Maharashtra's agriculture department has sought views on a proposal to suspend the sale and use of five types of pesticides which were found to be used by victims of the killer spray in the cotton fields of Vidarbha.

India's forest and tree cover has increased by 8,021 sq. km, up 1 per cent since 2015, to 802,088 sq. km, which is about 24.39 per cent of the total geographical area of the country, revealed the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2017. Of the total increase of 8,021 sq. km in forest and tree cover, forest cover grew by 6,778 sq. km and tree cover by 1,243 sq. km. According to the report, India's total forest cover is 708, 273 sq. km (about 21.54 per cent of India's total geographical area) and tree cover is 93,815 sq. km (about 2.85 per cent of the total geographical area).

China's Ministry of Transport is planning to establish a laboratory specializing in treating oil spills at sea, the first-of-its-kind in the country. The country is spending about 200 million Yuan a year on researches for emergency treatment of oil spills but the technological expertise has not been widely applied because of lack of such a lab.

Kenya has unveiled ethanol stoves for refugees in Kakuma camp in northwest part of the country to help mitigate climate carbon emissions. The stoves launched in partnership with electronics firm, Samsung, will help reduce dependency on charcoal in the camp.

According to the 2018 Environmental Performance Index, air quality is the leading environmental threat to public health. Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum.

A new study finds strong agreement that flood risks in central and Western Europe are rising due to global warming. In the study conducted by lead author Lorenzo Alfieri (European Commission—Joint Research Centre, Italy), Richard Betts (University of Exeter and Met Office, UK), and their colleagues, the authors used what are called impact models to assess the risks of large-scale flooding.

Hong Kong has closed more than a dozen beaches after a palm oil spill washed foul-smelling, Styrofoam-like clumps ashore, the latest major environmental disaster to blight the territory's waters.

Working in Grenville Bay in Grenada, a Caribbean country, researchers of University of California, Santa Cruz and the Nature Conservancy showed that degradation of coral reefs is directly linked to shoreline erosion and coastal flooding in parts of the bay.