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Mapping and promoting wetland conservation

08 Feb 2022

India’s ‘National Wetland Decadal Change Atlas’ was released on World Wetlands Day 2022 on 2 February. Formally named as ‘Space-Based Observation of Indian Wetlands’, the Atlas is documentation of wetlands...

Climate change threatens India’s mango output

01 Feb 2022

Late flowering and the resulting delay in harvests due to climate change and unseasonal rains has affected the flowering cycle of mango seeds, which is likely to impact production in...

Citizen science could track Himalayan illegal wildlife trade

25 Jan 2022

Scientists from the Kumaon University in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand and the University of Sydney, state that investments in citizen reporting tools could provide crucial data on the status...

Indian report shows steady increase in forest cover

18 Jan 2022

Last week, the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change released the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2021. The report showed a continuing increase in forest cover across...

Action Plan Cheetah finally underway

11 Jan 2022

Indian Environment Minister Bhupendra Singh has announced that the Environment Ministry will introduce 50 cheetahs into Indian forests over the next five years, 70 years after they went extinct. He...

Environmental progress under review

04 Jan 2022

The Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has said that the Protected Area coverage in the country has increased from 4.90 per cent in 2014 to 5.03 per...

Climate smart farming in India

28 Dec 2021

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) defines climate-smart agriculture (CSA) as an approach that helps guide actions to transform agri-food systems towards green and climate resilient practices. CSA supports reaching...

Healthy indoor environment highlighted

21 Dec 2021

A recent study by the Green Building Certification Inc. (GBCI) India and Saint-Gobain Research India evaluated the health performance of office buildings in India. The ‘Healthy Workplaces for Healthier People’...

India’s plastic waste generation doubled in 5 years

14 Dec 2021

Responding to a query raised in the Lower House of Parliament, Indian Minister of State for Environment Ashwini Choubey said that India’s plastic waste generation has more than doubled in...

India, EU to boost clean energy and climate alliance

07 Dec 2021

During discussions at the EU-India Energy Panel meet last week, India and the EU have agreed on a detailed work programme until 2023 to implement the 2016 EU-India Clean Energy...

Meena Janardhan

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

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