Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), which generates 47 megawatt peak (MWp) solar power through rooftop panels installed at Metro stations, depots, and residential complexes, is now going to install vertical solar panels along its elevated corridors. .... read more

Maharashtra has joined hands with the World Economic Forum’s Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) to advance regional efforts to fight plastic pollution..... read more

Delhi Government has decided to ban single-use plastic products in Delhi Secretariat from June 1, 2022 onwards. Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai informed, “Single-use plastic goods will be prohibited at the Delhi Secretariat beginning June 1.
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With Delhi slowly running out of land for carrying out its annual tree plantation, compensatory plantation and tree transplantation efforts, the annual greening target of 3.54 million saplings this year will be largely met by planting shrubs, which make up about 76 per cent of the total 2.76 million saplings being planted by the 19 greening agencies of the national capital, forest department officials have said.

India’s food production could drop 16 per cent and the number of those at risk for hunger could increase 23 per cent by 2030 due to climate change, says a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on climate change and food systems. .... read more

Despite the delays and challenges, it is possible to clean the Yamuna River in Delhi to bathing standards and achieve water quality to support propagation of aquatic life by 2025, experts have said. .... read more

The world is creeping closer to the warming threshold international agreements are trying to prevent, with nearly a 50-50 chance that Earth will temporarily hit that temperature mark within the next five years, teams of meteorologists across the globe predicted.

About a fifth of reptile species—from the Galapagos tortoises to the Komodo dragon of the Indonesian islands, from West Africa’s rhinoceros viper to India’s gharial—are threatened with extinction, researchers said recently in the first comprehensive global status assessment for reptiles.

The emperor penguin, which roams Antarctica’s frozen tundra and chilly seas, is at severe risk of extinction in the next 30–40 years as a result of climate change, an expert from the Argentine Antarctic Institute (IAA) warned.

A warming world and intensive agriculture are causing insect populations to plummet by nearly half compared to areas less affected by temperature rises and industrial farming, researchers said recently.

China’s sea levels reached their highest on record last year, swelled by rising water temperatures and the melting of glaciers and polar icecaps, the Chinese government said in a report.

The world’s oceans in 2021 grew to their warmest and most acidic levels on record, while melting ice sheets helped push sea levels to new heights, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said recently.