This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. To receive a weekly email with a roundup of our stories, please sign-up to our newsletter. Toxic debate rages on over…
Particulates that are under constant flak for contributing to air pollution, now have a chance at reclaiming themselves. Short-lived climate pollutants, carbonaceous aerosols (CAs), such as black carbon, have received…
In April, as India was busy in the 2019 parliamentary elections, the central government moved to “re-engineer” the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification 2006, which governs environment clearance for industrial…
This week's stories rolled into one. To receive a weekly email with a roundup of our stories, please sign-up to our newsletter. Upping the ante for disaster management in cyclone-prone…
Aggressive mitigation measures to promote clean-fuel usage across all household sources, not just cooking, would help bring down the ambient particulate matter levels (PM2.5) within safe limits in India and reduce…
Dust storms of May 2018, in northern India, have contributed to the deteriorating air quality in the region and the capital city of Delhi, with implications for human health, a…
Since the 2014 national elections, the capital city of Tamil Nadu has witnessed major environmental calamities, from the disastrous floods of December 2015 to the giant oil spill outside Kamarajar…
Who will win India’s parliamentary elections, will be known only on May 23 when the results are announced. But for now, there is a small win for the people of…
Agriculture-related governance issues and clean drinking water feature predominantly in the Indian voter’s priorities for the coming elections, reveals a survey. Meanwhile, high levels of water and air pollution, which…
Whether it was the intense public protest in Delhi last June, over the proposed cutting of thousands of trees, or protests in Bengaluru since 2017 against tree felling for a…
The adverse impact from coal-fired power plants on public health is the highest in India globally, found a recent study. And while campaigns continue to highlight the ills of coal…
In the next 30 years, India is expected to add hundreds of millions of new urban residents and the world is watching for what this high urban population growth will…
Transport corporations in India are gradually junking rickety old buses that spew blankets of thick black smoke, to make an ambitious and direct leap to cleaner and sophisticated electric buses.…
Forests in the northern Indian state of Haryana account for just 3.59 percent of its total geographical area. And a new threat looms which could reduce this cover further as…
Toxic air does not know borders. A simulation study has gauged that 80 percent of the total untimely deaths in India due to outdoor air pollution is caused by emissions…
Air pollution does not adhere to human-created borders. So, even as south Asian neighbours India and Pakistan spend a majority of time in political conflict, both countries suffer from the…
The Hindu Kush Himalaya region that supports nearly 40 percent of the global population, directly or indirectly, is under severe stress with rising global temperatures. Even if the world manages…
Ahead of the 2014 parliamentary elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) manifesto had promised to “frame the environmental laws in a manner” that will lead to “speedy clearance of proposals…
Forty-year-old Sudipto Roy working in a multinational firm in Delhi tried cycling to his office, nearly 22-km away from his home, instead of using his car, but gave up the…
In this season’s episodes of the popular Nepali tele-serial Singha Durbar which is patterned after Yes, Prime Minister, a fictitious female prime minister of Nepal grapples with all kinds of…
