With 22 heads of states, the Prime Minister spelt out India's commitment to act against climate change and start a 'global solar revolution' during the founding conference of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) in New Delhi on March 11, 2018.

The Supreme Court has reduced Tamil Nadu's allocation of Cauvery water from Karnataka from 192 tmc to 177.25 tmc. Tamil Nadu will have to now bank on 10 tmc groundwater available with it. The court said the tribunal did not consider the growing needs of Bengaluru and had thought the city could make do with its 60 per cent groundwater supply.

Meenangadi, in Kerala's Wayanad district, is looking to become 'carbon neutral'—a state of zero carbon footprint achieved when carbon emissions in the atmosphere are cancelled out by an equal amount of sequestration.

The Pune region has the maximum number of industrial units in the state with alarmingly high pollution index. Nearly 4,826 units in the Pune region, including Pune, Satara, and Solapur districts, have been kept in the 'red category' (highly polluting) of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, according to the State Economic Survey 2017/18.

Nearly 24 per cent of the solid waste generated in the country was being processed as on January 31, 2018, according to data presented by the government in Parliament. Out of over 1.43 lakh tonnes per day (tpd) of solid waste generated across the country, only about 33,800 tpd (or 23.73 per cent) was being processed at the end of January 2018, the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry data showed.

As part of its dedicated air pollution abatement programme for 100 polluting cities, the Centre has formulated a National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to fight the menace through a long-term strategy.

The world's fisheries will be, on average, 20 per cent less productive in the year 2300, according to a study published in the journal Science. This will be characterized by 9.6 degree C increase in mean surface air temperature, nearly 10 times the warming we have seen to this point.

The world's greatest forests could lose more than half of their plant species by the end of the century unless nations ramp up efforts to tackle climate change, according to a new report on the impacts of global warming on biodiversity hotspots.

Poaching and habitat loss have reduced forest elephant populations in Central Africa by 63 per cent since 2001. This widespread killing poses dire consequences not only for the species itself but also for the region's forests, a new Duke University study warns.

Myanmar has planned to launch a biodiversity and ecosystem services project in three townships along the country's Chindwin River Basin starting April 1, 2018, according to the official Global New Light of Myanmar report.

The Dubai Municipality's Buildings Department has developed a new smart calculator to measure the environmental impact of the use of concrete in construction projects and compare it to the baseline that it has developed in advance.

A new study of the faeces of captive seals has shown that microplastics can travel high up the food chain and affect even the large predators of the oceans.