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First-ever water budget adopted in India

13 Jun 2023

For the first time in India, a state is adopting a water budget. Unveiled by the Kerala Chief Minister recently, the first phase in the Indian state of Kerala will...

India is an ESB transgression hotspot

06 Jun 2023

Seven of eight earth system boundaries (ESBs) that are critical for stability of the planet’s health and survival of species have already been crossed, a new research paper by the...

India’s first water body census released

23 May 2023

The Indian Union Ministry of Jal Shakti (India’s water ministry) has released the report of India’s first water bodies census, a comprehensive data base of ponds, tanks, lakes, and reservoirs...

India faces high costs to adapt to climate change

16 May 2023

India’s Central Bank has said that will spend an estimated 85.6 trillion rupees ($1.05 trillion) by 2030 to adapt its various industries to be compliant with climate change norms, according...

Indian Reserve Bank guidelines for green deposits

09 May 2023

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently released a framework for green deposits, which are investments meant to be used towards environmentally sustainable projects. This aims to shape the...

Pollution, tropical cyclones affect rains in India

02 May 2023

Pollution and the rise in tropical cyclones over the West Pacific could be a cause for the decline in rainfall and Indian monsoons over the past decades. These are the...

Heatwaves could hinder sustainable development

25 Apr 2023

Climate change-induced heatwaves in India can hinder or reverse the country’s progress in fulfilling the sustainable development goals (SDGs) due to the unprecedented burdens on public health, agriculture, and other...

Arctic weather spells influenced India’s rains

12 Apr 2023

A climate reconstruction study published in the ‘Global and Planetary Change’ finds that warm and cold climatic spells in the Arctic, over the past 1000 years, imprinted on India’s monsoon...

Heatwave action plans in India found lacking

04 Apr 2023

India has recorded its highest ever maximum temperature in February 2023. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a statement recently that the country is likely to experience heat waves...

Climate impact of livestock and wild herbivores

28 Mar 2023

An Indian Institute of Science (IISc) study finds that livestock and wild herbivores differ in impacts on soil carbon and ultimately the climate, as reported by Mongabay-India. As 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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