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Visibility in New Delhi is vastly reduced, with buildings such as the Jama Masijd mosque shrouded in smog.

Delhi smog hits highest level this year

Levels of microparticles is well over recommended limits in the city, schools have been ordered to hold classes online.

Maladaptation has been discussed as part of negotiations on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) at COP29.

‘Maladaptation’ fears might end up blocking climate funds for poor nations

Overly strict definitions of failed climate adaptation can potentially prevent vital projects in developing countries from getting financial support.

Rishika Pardikar

Paradise in Peril: India’s great banyan garden fights for survival

The Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, a living heritage site, is in desperate need of funds to sustain itself.

The tunnel vision that resulted in Donald Trump

Americans are so divided that a single sacred value—be it free speech, politeness, or climate action—blinds them to all other concerns.

Raghu Murtugudde

Forest officials carry a tranquillised leopard that had taken shelter in a construction site.

HUMAN-ANIMAL CONFLICT

India sees spike in deadly leopard attacks with rising human encroachment on animal habitats

Conservationists say understanding the behaviour of the big cats is key to coexistence.

The energy capital powering India and poisoning its residents

India’s super-polluter Vindhyachal plant experiments with carbon capture, but trial fails to appease local coal concerns.

Artificial Intelligence

E-waste from AI computers could ‘escalate beyond control’: study

Researchers predicting a 1,000-fold increase in such e-waste by 2030 have called for recycling strategies to reduce environmental impact.

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The Hoolock gibbon, India’s only ape species, is found in the Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Jorhat district, Assam.

Vedanta’s oil exploration plan threatens Assam’s last gibbon sanctuary

Modi government’s new policy lets Cairn Oil & Gas advance Rs.264 crore project near Hollongapar reserve, while wildlife board demands inspection.

The houses that were demolished on October 1 at Shankar Nagar along the Musi in Hyderabad. Its residents were relocated to two-bedroom slum resettlement buildings in Pilligudiselu, 2 km away.

When did Musi beautification become about erasing the poor?

Telangana’s ambitious Rs.1.5 lakh crore riverfront project starts with evictions and demolitions in old Hyderabad; detailed plans remain under wraps.

Trucks lined up outside the Bandhwari landfill carrying unsegregated waste.

A sacred forest dies in Gurugram as Bandhwari landfill’s toxic waste breaches Aravalli sanctuary

Despite Swachh Bharat Mission’s giant promises, 1,600 tonnes of unsegregated waste continues to poison groundwater in villages near Mangarbani forest.

Shubhangi Derhgawen,Deepanshu Mohan

The hungry river

The people of the Samserganj region in Murshidabad face a bleak future as the river Ganga continues to ruin their homes and hopes.

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India Gate shrouded in smog as air quality deteriorates in New Delhi, on October 22, 2024.

Will drones, artificial rain help Delhi breathe this winter?

The capital’s air quality index plummets to “very poor” as the government launches a Winter Action Plan.

Vedaant Lakhera,Vitasta Kaul

Environment and climate change activists take part in a demonstration in connection to the ongoing Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, in Manila on October 15, 2024.

Our planet’s future hinges on seeing sustainability as a win-win for all

It should be a non-zero-sum game. Climate actions must create benefits for all, rather than advantages for some at the expense of others.

Raghu Murtugudde

Ganshiram Kete, 62, a fisherman, paddles into the reservoir on a boat he made out of thermocol and bamboo.

Fishing in the photovoltaic waters of Nathsagar

A solar plant in Paithan’s reservoir, where fishers eke out a meagre living, could upset the delicate ecosystem and snuff out traditional communities.

Pragathi Ravi,Mitul Kajaria

Personnel from the Mysuru Division of South Western Railway at work on the Hassan-Mangaluru line, near Kadagaravalli, Karnataka, on July 28, 2024.

Why Karnataka rejected the Kasturirangan report on the Western Ghats

State cites economic concerns and political pressure from local representatives, despite growing ecological threats to the biodiversity-rich region.

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Fishermen repairing their nets at Versova in north-western Mumbai. Much of Versova, which used to be a fishing village, is now an upmarket neighbourhood.

Environmental degradation and urbanisation are pushing a 700-year-old fishing community to abandon their boats and nets

How Mumbai’s Koli fishermen swim against the tide to preserve their heritage.

Priyamvada Mangal

A fisherwoman ventures into black waters of the sea in Ganjam, Odisha, to catch prawn.

A sea of memories: How sixteen fisherwomen capture their drowning world

As tides devour villages, 16 women with cameras fight to save their vanishing heritage. An exhibition in Chennai showcases their startling images.

Mridula Vijayarangakumar

Climate activists, including migrants and displaced people, march to the global headquarters of Citigroup in New York City, US on August 16, 2024.

Cities in Global South must prepare for climate migrants

By 2050, millions of people will seek refuge from the effects of climate change in crowded cities. What can we do to prepare?

In 2011, ICAR started the National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture.

Research on climate change is 40 per cent of ICAR’s budget: S.K. Chaudhari

ICAR’s Deputy Director General of Natural Resources Management says farmers are prepared to adopt new technologies to ensure climate resilience.

Rishika Pardikar

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