Dr Ajay Mathur, Director General, TERI, has been elected as the Director General of the International Solar Alliance (ISA).

Increasing air pollution is not just a big risk for our lungs but it is also impacting India’s centuries old monuments, some of which house precious paintings and murals, vulnerable and exposed to contaminated air and climate change.

Forty-two million-plus population cities will get additional Rs.2217 crore for air pollution management in the next financial year as the finance minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman said during her budget presentation announcing a slew of measures as part of the Centre’s urban cleanliness mission.

An estimated 1.2 lakh deaths attributed to air pollution have been reported across six big Indian cities in 2020, with the national capital leading the table followed by Mumbai and Bengaluru. Bad air is also estimated to have cost $17.7 billion in economic terms.

With six elephants of Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary in Kalahandi district succumbing to the bacterial disease haemorrhagic septicaemia in a span of two weeks, the state forest department has started using drone cameras in the range to track the movement of and the health of the elephants, said officials and wildlife experts.

A four-month dragonfly survey that concluded at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) recently spotted 84 species of odonates (order of insects comprising dragonflies and damselflies) belonging to 59 genera under 11 families.

A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that the extinction of North America’s largest mammals was not driven by overhunting by rapidly expanding human populations following their entrance into the Americas.

Sri Lanka has recorded the highest number of elephant deaths in the world due to the human-elephant conflict, according to a media report. The island-nation’s Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) had ordered a special audit into the human-elephant conflict by renowned elephant expert Dr Prithviraj Fernando, the head of the Centre for Conservation and Research.

A two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo in Western Australia’s Kimberley region has been identified as Australia’s oldest intact rock painting. .... read more

Underwater seagrass in coastal areas appear to trap plastic pollution in natural bundles of fibre known as ‘Neptune balls’, researchers have found. With no help from humans, the swaying plants—anchored to shallow seabeds—may collect nearly 900 m plastic items in the Mediterranean alone every year, a study reported in the journal Scientific Reports said.

Nearly two-thirds of 1.2 million people polled worldwide say humanity faces a climate emergency, according to a UN survey, the largest of its kind ever undertaken. Young and old, rich and poor, respondents in 50 nations home

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