Environment & Ecology
Climate, biodiversity, pollution control and environmental legislation
Protecting elephants helps safeguard India’s forests as powerful carbon stores: Study
A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa (Volume 18, Issue 6, 2026) quantified the relationship between Asiatic elephant conservatio...
Why Europe’s worst-ever heatwave would have been impossible without climate change
Europe was struck by its worst ever recorded heatwave in June 2026 (approximately 18–29 June), with national temperature records broken in Belgium, France, G...
Explained | China, Bangladesh in talks over Teesta project
Bangladesh and China are actively advancing negotiations on the Teesta Comprehensive Management and Restoration Project, with the Bangladesh Water Developmen...
The Sunita Narain Show: El Niño, climate change and India’s monsoon
The Southwest Monsoon 2026 arrived in Kerala on 4 June 2026, three days later than normal (normal onset date: 1 June), and nine days after IMD's originally f...
Mint Explainer | Will water shortages derail India’s AI Data Centre boom?
India is pursuing an aggressive expansion of AI data centre capacity as part of its digital economy ambitions, attracting tens of billions of dollars in inve...
Centre asks Kerala to nominate new expert for Mullaperiyar dam safety panel
The Union government has asked the Kerala government to submit a fresh nomination for its representative to the Independent Panel of Experts (IPOE) carrying ...
Delhi to get AI-powered system to forecast pollution, identify hotspots
The Delhi Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the AIRAWAT Research Foundation of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur to develop ...
Rescued from wildlife traffickers, 7 endangered golden langurs head back to the wild in Assam
On 20 June 2026, a coordinated operation by a Special Task Force (STF), Chirang Police, the Assam Forest Department, and the Sashastra Seema Bal intercepted ...
Storage in India’s 166 major reservoirs drops to 26% of capacity
Storage in India's 166 major reservoirs monitored by the Central Water Commission (CWC) has dropped to approximately 26.37% of total live storage capacity — ...
Europe heatwave is 'price to pay for fossil fuel pollution': UN climate chief
A severe heatwave struck Western and Central Europe in June 2026 — the second major heat event of the year following an initial wave in late May — breaking t...
Rescued from wildlife traffickers, seven golden langurs released in Assam national park
Eight golden langurs — one of the world's most range-restricted primates — were rescued during a late-night anti-trafficking operation by the Special Task Fo...
El Niño is set to further disrupt India's $300 billion farm supply chain
El Niño conditions, declared onset in 2026, are threatening to disrupt India's agricultural supply chain, estimated at approximately $300 billion (roughly ₹2...
Bangladesh joins International Big Cat Alliance as new member, count reaches 27
Bangladesh officially joined the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA), a treaty-based international conservation body headquartered in New Delhi and spearhe...
Rice, maize, or sugarcane? India’s ethanol push triggers debate over agricultural concerns, subsidies
India's Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme has achieved its flagship 20% blending target (E20) in 2025, five years ahead of the original 2030 target — a ...
Indian children among most exposed to extreme heat, drought, and multiple climate hazards: UNICEF Report
The UNICEF Children's Climate Risk Report 2026, released on 16 June 2026, identifies Indian children as among the world's most exposed to extreme heat, droug...
Western Ghats: What is the ESA plan for conservation, why states are opposing it
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has issued successive draft notifications to declare parts of the Western Ghats as Ecologic...
Ambuja Cements partners with U.K.’s Leilac Ltd to build low-carbon cement project in Gujarat’s Kutch
Ambuja Cements (part of the Adani Group) has partnered with UK-based Leilac Ltd to demonstrate advanced carbon capture technology at its Sanghipuram (Sanghi)...
Indian children among most exposed to extreme heat, drought, and multiple climate hazards: UNICEF Report
UNICEF's Children's Climate Risk Report 2026 finds that nearly every child in India — approximately 97% — is exposed to two or more overlapping climate hazar...
India leads world in ship recycling, captures 35.4% global share
According to the latest report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), India increased its share of global ship recycling to 35.4...
Adverse monsoon may pose headwinds for domestic growth, inflation outlook: RBI Bulletin
The RBI's June 2026 Monthly Bulletin flagged a weak southwest monsoon as a significant headwind for both domestic growth and the inflation outlook, even as t...