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475 articles on Environment & Ecology · Page 12 of 24

March 10, 2026
4 articles
Environment & Ecology
5 min
February 2026 was the fifth warmest globally, with temperatures far above pre-industrial levels
February 2026 was recorded as one of the five warmest Februaries globally on record, according to data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the ...
Environment & Ecology
5 min
India’s Project Cheetah must stop importing big cats, say scientists
Conservation scientists and wildlife biologists are urging the Indian government to stop importing African cheetahs, arguing that the country lacks sufficien...
Science & Technology Environment & Ecology Economics
4 min
Australia-India partnership moves closer to green steel with ‘world-first’ agricultural waste trial
In a world-first demonstration, rice husk pellets derived from agricultural waste were successfully blended at 5% and 10% concentrations into commercial coal...
Environment & Ecology Geography
5 min
Alaska’s glacial lakes are expanding, increasing the risk of destructive outburst floods
A new study tracking 140 of Alaska's largest glacial lakes between 2018 and 2024 found they are expanding approximately 120% faster today than they were betw...
March 09, 2026
8 articles
Environment & Ecology Social Issues
5 min
Seeds of Sovereignty: How community-led seed revival is transforming agriculture in India
Grassroots organisations across India — in Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, and other states — are successfully reviving indigenous seed systems, reducing depend...
Polity & Governance Environment & Ecology
5 min
Government moots central body to curb green nod delay
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has published a draft notification proposing amendments to the Environment Impact Asses...
Environment & Ecology
6 min
Bird survey in Silent Valley records 192 species
A bird survey conducted from March 6–8, 2026, by the Kerala Forest Department and the Malabar Natural History Society (MNHS) recorded 192 species of birds in...
Environment & Ecology Polity & Governance
5 min
Does the new EIA amendment proposal fix institutional delays or bypass environmental scrutiny?
On March 5, 2026, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) published a draft notification proposing amendments to the Environmen...
Environment & Ecology
6 min
Yamuna water still highly polluted in Delhi, DPCC reports show elevated faecal coliform levels
Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) monitoring data shows Yamuna River water quality remains severely degraded at multiple points within Delhi, with Bio...
Environment & Ecology Geography
5 min
Fire in the Himalayas quadrupled: Why forest fires are climbing higher than ever
Forest fires in the Himalayan region have quadrupled in recent years, with ignitions occurring at significantly higher altitudes than historical records — a ...
Environment & Ecology Economics
5 min
Kenya’s latest carbon credit crackdown reveals questionable practices, players’ sneaky ways
Kenya has cracked down on several carbon credit projects, revoking or blocking approvals for credits that were generated with irregularities — including proj...
Economics Environment & Ecology
5 min
India’s renewable transition caught between stranded power and institutional Inertia
India's shift toward renewable energy is being complicated by the accumulated financial burden of stranded conventional power assets — primarily coal and gas...
March 08, 2026
8 articles
Environment & Ecology
4 min
Cheetahs’ shift backs corridor plan: NTCA
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has stated that the natural movement of cheetahs from Kuno National Park (Madhya Pradesh) into Rajasthan sup...
Environment & Ecology Polity & Governance
4 min
Why Fadnavis govt pushes Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan 2.0 to tackle drought?
The Fadnavis government has doubled down on Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan (JSA) 2.0 in the 2026–27 Maharashtra budget, pushing water conservation works across drou...
Environment & Ecology
4 min
Cheetahs moving from Kuno to Rajasthan show ‘natural territorial behaviour’: NTCA
Two cheetahs — designated KP-2 and KP-3 — from Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh have moved approximately 60–70 km into the Baran district of Rajast...
Environment & Ecology
5 min
Global warming picking up pace, study says
A new study projects that the Earth could breach the 1.5°C warming limit set by the Paris Agreement as early as 2030, earlier than previous estimates that pl...
Environment & Ecology Social Issues
5 min
Climate change hits women hardest, funding support inadequate: UNGCNI
The United Nations Global Compact Network India (UNGCNI) released findings showing that climate change disproportionately impacts women and girls, while glob...
Social Issues Environment & Ecology Economics
6 min
Gender, agriculture and climate change
A growing body of analysis documents how climate variability — including irregular monsoons, prolonged droughts, and extreme weather events — is disproportio...
Environment & Ecology Economics Social Issues
5 min
From lighting lives to powering livelihoods: TERI's LaBL 2.0 targets the next billion
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) formally launched LaBL 2.0 (Lighting a Billion Lives 2.0) on February 26, 2026, at the World Sustainable Developmen...
Environment & Ecology
5 min
Cheetahs moving from Kuno to Rajasthan show natural territorial behaviour: NTCA
Two cheetahs — designated KP-2 and KP-3 — from Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh have dispersed approximately 60–70 km into Baran district of Rajast...