Emphasizing ‘Agriculture as the first engine’ for India’s development journey, Union Budget 2025–26 tabled in Parliament recently by Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, announced a slew of measures to spur agricultural growth and productivity, thereby benefitting the Annadata. .... read more

Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Shri Manohar Lal, recently, inaugurated India’s first vertical bi-facial solar plant on Metro Viaduct at the Okhla Vihar Metro station in Delhi and 1 MW rooftop solar power plant installed at the Khyber Pass depot.

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The green cover in India has absorbed more carbon than it emitted annually in the last decade, but the rate of sequestration declines during extreme climate events such as drought, a study has revealed.

NTPC Ltd., India’s largest integrated power utility, has been honoured with Forward Faster Sustainability Award 2025 in the Water Resilience category.

The West Bengal government is burning midnight oil to ensure that 20 per cent of its total energy comes from renewable sources by 2030, said Md Ghulam Rabbani, minister-in-charge, department of non-conventional and renewable energy sources. .... read more

An increasing number of micro, small and medium-scale enterprises (MSMEs) in Coimbatore district are opting for rooftop solar energy panels to control the electricity costs.

Over 100 partners, including 37 tech companies, eleven countries and five international organizations, have joined forces under the Coalition for Environmentally Sustainable Artificial Intelligence (AI),...

The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Annual Report, released recently, calls for a dramatic uptick in ambition and action for the environment. .... read more

The world’s frozen oceans, which help to keep the planet cool, currently have less ice than ever previously recorded, satellite data shows. Sea-ice around the north and south poles acts like a giant mirror by reflecting much of the Sun’s energy back into space.

A new study by marine biologists reports that seals can essentially act as ‘smart sensors’ for monitoring fish populations in the ocean's eerily dim 'twilight zone.' .... read more

Fast-moving floodwaters rose recently in northeastern Australia after forcing many to flee, blacking out homes, and sweeping away a chunk of a critical bridge.

Japan has recently pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent in the next decade from 2013 levels but climate campaigners said the target fell short of what was needed under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming.