A 10-year-old girl has become a "bin-fluencer", after learning about the importance of recycling. Amelia wrote a letter to Swindon Borough Council to ask about why plastic bags, wrapping and films cannot be recycled on the kerbside.

China's glacier area has shrunk by 26 per cent since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7000 small glaciers disappearing completely and glacial retreat intensifying in recent years, official data released in March 2025 showed.

British water companies released untreated sewage into the country’s waterways for more than 3.6 million hours in 2024, a slight increase on the amount recorded the year before, official data showed recently. .... read more

Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass loss on record. The 9000 gigatonnes of ice lost from glaciers since 1975 are roughly equivalent to “an ice block the size of Germany with the thickness of 25 metres,” Michael Zemp, director of the Switzerland-based World Glacier Monitoring Service, said during a press conference announcing the report at the UN headquarters in Geneva.

Global renewable energy capacity registered record growth in 2024 but progress is still falling short of the 2030 renewable capacity target, a report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) showed recently. .... read more

At least one in five people globally felt a strong climate change influence every day from December 2024 to February 2025, according to a new report.

The Tamil Nadu Green Energy Corporation Limited (TNGECL) is looking at converting 110 aged windmills, mainly in the western region of the state, into hybrid wind-solar plants.

Trichy Corporation plans to integrate internet of things (IoT)-enabled devices and upgrade all 38 micro-compost centres (MCCs) and primary waste collection points across the city, to streamline and enhance daily waste management practices. .... read more

The National Zoological Park celebrated World Sparrow Day on March 20 with a series of events designed to raise awareness about the significance of sparrows and their role in the environment.

Coffee may get pricier owing to dwindling number of bees. If immediate action is not taken to restore bee populations, state's coffee production could face serious crisis, say experts. Karnataka's coffee heartland, where acres of plantations once thrived with the buzz of pollinators, farmers are now witnessing an alarming decline in honeybee populations.

A team of researchers from IIT-Guwahati have developed a sustainable and cost-effective method to remove toxic pollutants from industrial wastewater using biochar made from fruit wastes.

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The share of renewables except hydropower in the country's total electricity generation rose to 12.1 per cent in FY24 from 6 per cent in FY15, according to a government report released recently. .... read more