Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on April 22, 2021 announced the launch of the India–US Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership while addressing the Leaders’ Summit on Climate, a two-day virtual event hosted by US President Joseph Biden. .... read more

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has instructed all producers and recyclers of hazardous waste to empanel transport services used by them. The move, officials said, will help in streamlining the management of potentially dangerous refuse, of which about 37 per cent annually goes untreated in the state. .... read more

The sharp rise in COVID-19 deaths in Bengaluru has triggered a big medical waste problem for the crematoria: They are struggling to dispose of the waste generated by the ambulance staff and relatives of the victims, besides the equipment used by crematoria staff.

The population of dolphins in Chilika, India’s largest brackish water lake, and along the Odisha coast has doubled in 2021 compared with last year.

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Eight eastern states of Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal are most vulnerable to climate change and should be prioritized for funding and efforts to capacitate them against the associated risks, a report released by some of India’s top institutes has assessed. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and Indian Institute of Technology .... read more

The European Union (EU) has adopted ambitious new targets to curb climate change, with a pledge to make them legally binding. .... read more

Plastic pollution is not a recent phenomenon. But plastic pollution has exacerbated as a result of the pandemic. As per a global study conducted by Teale Phelps Bondaroff and Sam Cooke of OceansAsia, 4680–6240 metric tonnes of plastic in the form of masks entered our oceans in 2020.

African elephants living in forests and savannas are increasingly threatened with extinction, the Red List of species in trouble showed recently, as conservationists called for an urgent end to poaching. .... read more

California’s wildfire problem, fuelled by a concurrence of climate change and a heightened risk of human-caused ignitions in once uninhabited areas, has been getting worse with each passing year of the 21st century.

A new study suggests that the dangers posed by wildfire smoke may extend to the largest organ in the human body, and our first line of defence against outside threat: the skin. During the two weeks in November 2018 when wildfire smoke from the Camp Fire

A new study has highlighted how little is known about microbes—the hidden majority of life on Earth. Despite their importance to human life and the health of the Earth, a new scientific paper has shown our ‘profound ignorance’ of microbial biodiversity and how it is changing.