Environment & Ecology
4 min
Over 300 endangered turtles found hidden in AC First-Class coach of Patna-Indore Express
In a joint operation, the Madhya Pradesh State Tiger Strike Force, Railway Protection Force (RPF), and Bengal Forest Division seized 311 rare and endangered ...
Environment & Ecology
Social Issues
4 min
Gobar Times: India’s environmental heroes
A feature traced the history of India's environmental activism, highlighting how grassroots movements shaped the country's conservation trajectory. The artic...
Environment & Ecology
Art & Culture
3 min
Gobar Times: The fascinating world of orchids
A recent feature highlighted the ecological significance of orchids, one of the largest flowering plant families with approximately 28,000 naturally occurrin...
Economics
Environment & Ecology
5 min
Why traceability trumps yield in modern farming
An analysis has highlighted that long-term food security depends equally on soil health preservation and farmer dignity, not merely on maximising crop yields...
Environment & Ecology
Social Issues
4 min
Ensure zero human death in elephant attacks: Jharkhand CM asks officials
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren directed officials to ensure "not even a single death" occurs from elephant attacks in the state, issuing instructions ...
Economics
Environment & Ecology
4 min
From soil to sustainability: How ethanol is rewriting India’s rural growth story
India's ethanol blending programme has emerged as a powerful tool for rural economic transformation, aligning agricultural policy with clean energy objective...
Environment & Ecology
Polity & Governance
4 min
Water, salt and sugar packs must contain warning on presence of micro or nano plastics: Madras High Court
A special Division Bench of the Madras High Court comprising Justices N. Sathish Kumar and D. Bharatha Chakravarthy has directed that packaged water, salt, a...
Environment & Ecology
Social Issues
4 min
Human deaths in encounter with elephants in Odisha, a cause of concern, says WSO
The Wildlife Society of Odisha (WSO) has raised concerns over human deaths resulting from encounters with elephants in Odisha, which topped the national tall...
Economics
Environment & Ecology
4 min
Railways on a green track—eyes 3GW renewable energy for ₹18k crore
Indian Railways plans to invite bids for 3 GW of renewable energy projects worth Rs 18,000 crore in FY27 (2026-27). The initiative is part of Indian Railways...
Environment & Ecology
Polity & Governance
4 min
How Supreme Court stance on Aravalli definition stalls Haryana’s ambitious Jungle Safari project
The Supreme Court refused to allow Haryana to submit its revised Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the proposed Jungle Safari project in the Aravalli region,...
Environment & Ecology
International Relations
4 min
Trump revokes basis of U.S. climate regulation, ends vehicle emission standards
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revoked the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which classified six greenhouse gases (CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, HFCs,...
Environment & Ecology
Economics
3 min
India’s freight emissions could rise 400% by 2047 without urgent reform: SFC–TERI report
Smart Freight Centre (SFC) India, in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and IIM-Bangalore, released a whitepaper titled "Institutio...
Social Issues
Environment & Ecology
4 min
Air pollution, lifestyle factors why Indians suffer heart attacks 10 years earlier than Westerners, say cardiologists
Cardiologists have highlighted that Indians develop cardiovascular disease (CVD) nearly a decade earlier than Western populations, with heart attacks increas...
Economics
Environment & Ecology
5 min
Capacity building of small growers, BLF key to increasing productivity in tea sector: Experts
Industry experts have emphasised that capacity-building of small tea growers and Bought Leaf Factories (BLFs) is essential to improve productivity, quality, ...
Environment & Ecology
Economics
6 min
Renewables to dominate India’s grid by 2070, but ‘structural challenges’ are slowing the pace
A report by NITI Aayog projects that renewable energy will account for over 80% of India's power generation by 2070, while coal's share is expected to fall s...
Environment & Ecology
Social Issues
6 min
‘Defective processes’: Odisha rights panel calls for high-level probe into relocation of villages near tiger reserve
The Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has directed the state government to constitute a high-level inquiry committee within four weeks to investigate irr...
Environment & Ecology
Art & Culture
5 min
A wildlife association that helped conserve the Nilgiris’ biodiversity
A recent report profiled the Nilgiri Wildlife and Environment Association (NWEA), widely regarded as India's first wildlife conservation organisation, tracin...
Environment & Ecology
International Relations
6 min
U.S. to scrap legal cornerstone of climate regulations this week
The Trump administration will formally rescind the 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding this week, with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin joining the President for the a...
Environment & Ecology
Polity & Governance
6 min
Price of iron ore in Maharashtra’s wildlife corridor—18,000 trees & 60 tigers in return for 120 jobs
Maharashtra's State Board for Wildlife (SBWL), chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, approved iron ore mining in 35.95 hectares of reserved forest in ...
Economics
Environment & Ecology
4 min
India’s organic ecosystem now maturing: Commerce Secretary at BIOFACH 2026 in Germany
India has been designated as the "Country of the Year" at BIOFACH 2026, the world's leading trade fair for organic products, held from 10 to 13 February 2026...
Environment & Ecology
5 min
State-run Parli Thermal Power Station ordered to stop operation of 2 units over pollution
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has directed the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to immediately stop operations of Units 6 and 8 at Par...
Environment & Ecology
Economics
Science & Technology
5 min
India’s power mix to shift from coal to renewables by 2070; Nuclear seen as key baseload: NITI Aayog
NITI Aayog released a study titled "Scenarios Towards Viksit Bharat and Net Zero" projecting India's power sector fuel mix transformation Under the Current P...
Environment & Ecology
Economics
Science & Technology
5 min
Decarbonise transport sector through modal shift, zero emission vehicles: NITI report
NITI Aayog stressed the need to decarbonise the transport sector through modal shift, zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), and clean fuels and technologies to achi...
Economics
Science & Technology
Environment & Ecology
4 min
Pest resistance increasing in Bt-cotton: Minister
The Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare confirmed in a Lok Sabha reply that pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella) has developed r...
Economics
Environment & Ecology
Science & Technology
5 min
SMART AGRO-FOOD SYSTEMS AND SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION PRACTICES
The government outlined its key agronomic priorities in a Lok Sabha reply, focusing on climate-resilient, carbon-neutral, and regenerative agriculture to add...
Environment & Ecology
Economics
Polity & Governance
5 min
NITI Aayog Releases Study Reports on Scenarios Towards Viksit Bharat and Net Zero
NITI Aayog released eleven study reports titled "Scenarios Towards Viksit Bharat and Net Zero" on 9-10 February 2026 at the Ambedkar International Centre, Ne...
Environment & Ecology
6 min
Don’t let poachers sneak through
An editorial has raised concerns that the Forest Department's amnesty scheme for declaring wildlife possession risks creating a legal pathway for poachers an...
Economics
Environment & Ecology
4 min
Blending ethanol up to 25% and accelerating flex-fuel vehicle development will help address overcapacity, Distillers Association chief
The All-India Distillers Association (AIDA) chief stated that the industry holds a cumulative ethanol production capacity of 200 crore litres and advocated r...
Environment & Ecology
5 min
New dragonfly species discovered in Kerala, named Lyriothemis keralensis
A new dragonfly species, *Lyriothemis keralensis*, commonly named the Slender Bombardier, has been formally described from Kerala after a decade-long taxonom...
Economics
International Relations
Environment & Ecology
3 min
India will support steel exports hit by Europe's carbon tax, federal secretary says
India's federal commerce secretary confirmed the government will provide support to steel exporters adversely affected by the European Union's Carbon Border ...
Environment & Ecology
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
5 min
27 deaths later, Meghalaya orders massive crackdown on rat-hole mines
Following the explosion that killed 27 miners in an illegal rat-hole mine at Mynsyngat village, East Jaintia Hills, on 5 February 2026, the Meghalaya governm...
Environment & Ecology
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
5 min
27 die in Meghalaya: What is rat-hole mining, why it continues despite ban
At least 27 miners were killed and 9 injured in an explosion at an illegal rat-hole coal mine in Mynsyngat village, Thangsko area, East Jaintia Hills distric...
Geography
Environment & Ecology
4 min
Why does Thwaites glacier matter?
Scientists from the UK and South Korea reached the most inaccessible part of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica in early February 2026 to drill one kilometr...
Environment & Ecology
1 min
MP’s Kuno national park celebrates five cubs born to Namibian cheetah ‘Aasha’: Watch
Namibian cheetah Aasha gave birth to five cubs at Kuno National Park on February 7, 2026, raising India's total cheetah population to 35. This is the eighth ...
Environment & Ecology
4 min
A second-time mom at Kuno: Aasha gives birth to 5 cubs
Aasha, a Namibian cheetah translocated to India under Project Cheetah, gave birth to five cubs at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh on February 7, 2026, b...
Environment & Ecology
4 min
Elephant attacks claim two more lives in Bokaro; toll reaches eight since January
A herd of five elephants attacked Gangpur village in Bokaro district's Mahuatand police station area on February 7, 2026, killing Somar Saw and his three-yea...
Environment & Ecology
4 min
Why is the sighting of two tigers in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana worrying officials and people?
An adult Royal Bengal Tiger that travelled over 650 km from Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra was spotted on National Highway 16 near Rajamahendrav...
Environment & Ecology
Social Issues
5 min
Distressing regularity: On Meghalaya’s rat-hole mines
An explosion in an illegal rat-hole coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya on February 5, 2026, killed at least 18 workers (with the death tol...