Investing in the blue economy can help enable nations to address COVID crisis, and make sure that the global community builds back better and greener. This was the key theme at the fourth India-Norway Task Force on blue economy that met on June 9, 2021..... read more

NTPC Limited, India's largest power utility has become a signatory to the prestigious UN Global Compact's CEO Water Mandate. With NTPC joining the coveted league of companies that focus on efficient water management, its Chairman and Managing Director Shri Gurdeep Singh has joined a select group of business leaders who recognize the ever-growing importance of water stewardship and have been working to conserve this precious natural resource. .... read more

India has lost 90 per cent of the area under its four biodiversity hotspots, with the Indo-Burma hotspot taking the worst hit, a report released by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) showed recently. India has four biodiversity hotspots, including the Himalayas, the Western Ghats, the Indo-Burma region and the Sundaland, that hosts numerous endemic species.

India is taking all steps to ensure that the country becomes free of single-use plastic (SUP) by 2022, Union Environment Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar said while launching 'Plastic Hackathon 2021' campaign on June 8, 2021.

Assam named 422-sq. km Raimona, home to golden langur, as the state's sixth national park, while celebrating World Environment Day 2021. Making the announcement, Chief Minister Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma said the number of national parks in the state will increase to seven soon as the process to name Dehing Patkai as another national park is under way. .... read more

Twelve railway stations in the Varanasi division of the North Eastern Railways (NER) will soon turn into 'green zones'. Divisional Railway Manager Vijay Kumar Panjiyar said: So far, 12 railway stations selected in the division are being developed as green stations, by seeking consent to operate from UP and Bihar pollution control boards, in order to check the water and air pollution as per the prescribed standards of National Green Tribunal..... read more

An unusually early and long-lasting heat wave brought more triple-digit temperatures to a large swath of the US West, raising concerns that such extreme weather could become the new normal amid a decades-long drought. .... read more

Poland needs to decarbonize the country's construction sector as buildings play a crucial role in Poland's effort to meet the 2050 net-zero emissions goal, a new study shows. .... read more

A new study published in the journal Diversity and Distributions predicts massive range declines of Africa’s great apes—gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos—due to the impacts of climate change, land-use changes, and human population growth.

Waking up just one hour earlier could reduce a person’s risk of major depression by 23 per cent, suggests a sweeping new genetic study published recently in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. The study of 840,000 people, by researchers at University of Colorado Boulder and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, represents some of the strongest evidence yet that chronotype—a person’s propensity to sleep at a certain time influences depression risk.

Taiwan's nuclear power installed capacity decreased from 4.9 GW to 3.8 GW, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of -1.2 per cent, according to leading data and analytics company GlobalData.

Two Javan rhinoceros calves have been spotted at an Indonesian national park, offering a rare sighting of one of the world's most endangered mammals. The pair ranging in age from three months to one year were caught on footage snapped by camera traps in March at Ujung Kulon National Park, the Environment Ministry said.