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Indian NDC updated and approved

09 Aug 2022

India’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement to be communicated to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been officially approved by the Union...

More Ramsar sites across India

02 Aug 2022

India’s Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav recently took to his twitter account to share the news that five more Indian wetlands have received Ramsar recognition as wetlands of international importance. ...

Tree planting and global climate change

26 Jul 2022

Researchers are pointing out that just planting trees is not a cure-all for tackling global warming and climate change, as recorded by multiple studies. Right from selecting the correct species...

Indian plastic waste management rules to tackle crisis

19 Jul 2022

The Indian Union environment ministry has issued the Plastic Waste Management (Second Amendment) Rules, 2022, in view of the phasing out of certain single-use plastic products from July 1 and...

Indian mangroves suffer cyclone impacts

12 Jul 2022

Studies conducted recently show that in India frequent cyclone damage slows the recovery of mangroves and changes the forest composition in comparison to other regions that didn’t witness many cyclones,...

Numerous new species discovered in India

05 Jul 2022

The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) discovered 540 new species in 2021. According to ZSI officials, the new discoveries took the Indian faunal diversities to 1,03,258 species, accounting for 6.1%...

Floods now...after heat waves!

28 Jun 2022

India reeled under sever heat waves till end-May. Now many parts of the country are witnessing unprecedented rainfall! The northeastern state of Assam in India has remained one of...

Water stress poses serious threat to people

21 Jun 2022

The World Resources Institute (WRI) has listed India among the 17 countries, home to one-quarter of the world’s population, which face extremely high water stress. India has 18% of the...

India achieves 10% ethanol blending target in petrol

07 Jun 2022

On World Environment Day, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India has achieved the target of 10% ethanol blending in petrol five months before deadline. Making the announcement...

Agroforestry benefits Indian farmers and climate

31 May 2022

A new World Resources Institute (WRI) India paper explores how growing trees in agroforestry systems — a landscape restoration technique where farmers add trees to their land — and in...

Meena Janardhan

Writer/Editor/Consultant. She has over 25 years of experience in the fields of environmental journalism and publishing.

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