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USAID's India Mission Director Dr. Steven G. Olive and Mr. Nandha Kumar at the Kakajan Tea Estate in Jorhat, Assam.

US-India tie-up for climate resilience, agroforestry

14 Jan 2025

A cutting-edge tree nursery was inaugurated in Assam recently to support local and national climate change mitigation goals by increasing plant production to sequester carbon, while utilising the latest agroforestry...

New species lead to new discoveries in 2024

07 Jan 2025

The Western Ghats and Northeast India has always been recognized as biodiversity rich and hotspots in India with multiple discoveries of endemic species from these regions, according to a Mongabay-India...

State of Indian forests looks healthy

01 Jan 2025

The India State of Forest Report 2023 (ISFR 2023) was recently released at an event at the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. The report has been brought out by the Forest...

Mapping flood, drought risks across Indian districts

24 Dec 2024

A recent report warns that 51 districts in India face ‘very high’ flood risk, with 118 more categorised as ‘high’ risk. An event at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)...

Indian philanthropy leading global climate action

17 Dec 2024

A report by the Centre for Nature and Climate of the World Economic Forum has highlighted how India’s philanthropic power is leading global climate action. It states that countries in...

Is Santa for Mum and Dad, or for the kids?

12 Dec 2024

A senior ethics professor at Scotland’s University of St Andrew’s says that telling your children that Santa exists is wrong. It is misleading and when they do eventually find out...

Climate change factors could affect India’s solar potential

10 Dec 2024

India has set ambitious solar energy targets to meet its climate commitments. However, climate change, already evident in the country, poses significant challenges to solar power generation, according to a...

Nature-based solutions for resilient cities

03 Dec 2024

Indian cities need to adopt, integrate and scale up nature-based solutions (NbS) as part of their climate mitigation and adaptation efforts to build climate resilience, according to the India Forum...

India’s macroplastic pollution emissions highest, warns study

26 Nov 2024

Emissions from plastic pollution are the highest in India, with the country contributing to nearly one-fifth of global plastic emissions, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature...

Food Innovation Hubs for sustainable systems

21 Nov 2024

A Food Innovation Hub in India developed under an initiative by the World Economic Forum (WEF) scales agritech innovations to improve farmer resilience and market development, in collaboration with the...

Meena Janardhan

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

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