Environment & Ecology

Three satellite wetland lakes — DPS, NRI, and T S Chanakya lakes at Nerul, Navi Mumbai — have been found to have dangerously high toxin and pollutant levels,...

With the Iran war disrupting oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, analysts and industry bodies are arguing that India must urgently accelerate its Ethanol...

Conservation scientists are raising alarm over the Hudsonian godwit, a shorebird whose population has plummeted 95% over four decades and which travels 30,00...

The All India Distillers Association (AIDA), the apex body representing India's ethanol, bio-energy, and potable alcohol producers, wrote to Union Minister f...

The Indian Biogas Association (IBA) has formally pitched to the Delhi government for up to 20% blending of Compressed Biogas (CBG) into Compressed Natural Ga...

Satellite data has identified Turkmenistan as the world's top emitter of methane from oil and gas operations, holding 15 of the top 25 methane leak sites glo...

A CareEdge Ratings report flagged that approximately 26.2% of India's fertiliser imports originate from West Asia, a region currently affected by ongoing geo...

Scientists have for the first time quantified the process by which gulls and other waterbirds transport plastic waste from landfills and waste treatment site...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released its State of the Global Climate 2025 report confirming that 2015-2025 are the eleven hottest years in th...

India's push to achieve 300 GW of installed solar capacity by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2070 is creating land-use conflicts, since large utility-scale s...

The Ministry of Mines announced the launch of the 7th tranche of critical and strategic mineral block auctions on March 23, 2026, offering 19 blocks across s...

India's Ministry of Mines launched the 7th tranche of critical and strategic mineral block auctions on March 23, 2026, offering 19 mineral blocks across mult...

The All India Distillers' Association (AIDA) has stated that the ethanol industry is ready to supply more than 20 per cent ethanol blending in petrol, beyond...

A new analysis by the Climate and Community Institute (CCI) found that the US and Israel's initial 14 days of military operations in Iran generated over 5 mi...

LNG supply disruptions linked to the ongoing Iran-Israel war have caused urea output at affected fertilizer plants to drop by approximately 50%. Energy consu...

A Parliamentary Standing Committee expressed serious concern over the rising level of groundwater contamination across India and directed the government to d...

A two-year metagenomic study of urban wastewater published in Nature Communications mapped antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes across 19 sites in Delhi, Mum...

The Supreme Court of India, in a bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant, dismissed an appeal by environmental NGO Vanashakti against the Bombay High Court's D...

Union Power Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced at the Bharat Electricity Summit 2026 in New Delhi that India will begin formal trading in its domestic ca...

The United Nations designated March 21 as International Day of Forests, with the 2026 theme selected as "Forests and Economies" by the UN Forum on Forests (U...