India has 18 per cent of the world’s population but 32 per cent of the global burden of respiratory diseases. Respiratory disease burden in India is second to that of ischaemic heart disease, found a state-level analysis of the Global Burden of Disease data.

India has restored 9.8 million hectares of degraded land in the last seven years (2011-2017), with government agencies playing a major role in the green initiative, restoring 95 per cent while the remaining 5 per cent was done by NGOs and private companies.

India has released its 'National REDD+ Strategy', one of the key tools to fulfil the country's commitment of increasing forest cover in a time-bound manner under the Paris Agreement on climate change.

A recent study by the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology has found that black carbon travelling from Mediterranean countries during the western disturbance (which brings winter rains to India) may be one of the contributing factors leading to the receding snowline in the Himalayas.

Surat's civic body is setting up state-of-the-art sewage treatment plants (STPs) to ensure every drop of wastewater is treated and reused for purposes other than drinking.

The Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSSB) is setting up a multidisciplinary team of 100 scientists from various research institutes to assist panchayat-level Biodiversity Management Committees (BMCs) to carry out a rapid assessment of the biodiversity loss caused by the recent floods in Kerala.

Google would expand its innovative, street-by-street air pollution mapping program to an international fleet of 50 Google Street View cars. The programme is a partnership with Aclima, a San Francisco company that maps air quality on a block-by-block scale.

Of the roughly 3 million sq. km of forest lost worldwide from 2001 to 2015, a recent analysis suggests that 27 per cent of that loss was permanent—the result of land being converted for industrial agriculture to meet global demand for products, such as soy, timber, beef, and palm oil.

Water scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa region can either be a destabilizing factor or a motive that binds communities together, according to a new joint report from the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Bank.

Italy's lakes are polluted by trash, microplastics, and untreated sewage, Legambiente environmentalist association said in its first national report on freshwater basins.

About 88-95 per cent of marine plastic waste is estimated to come from 10 rivers in Asia and Africa, according to a study by German researchers.

The loss of arctic permafrost deposits by coastal erosion could increase climate warming through the greenhouse effect.