Environment & Ecology
Climate, biodiversity, pollution control and environmental legislation
The green strategic partnership: India and Norway chart a sustainable future
An Indian Prime Minister visited Norway for the first time in over 40 years (since 1986), marking a major diplomatic milestone in India-Nordic engagement. In...
Ex-bureaucrats write to CJI over remarks on green litigants
On 22 May 2026, a group of 71 retired civil servants — constituting the Constitutional Conduct Group — addressed an open letter to the Chief Justice of India...
After Sidra demolitions row, J&K minister tells forest officials: ‘First understand the law’
A joint team of the Forest Department and police demolished 32 structures at Raika Bandi in Sidhra (Jammu), displacing more than two dozen Gujjar and Bakarwa...
Project Cheetah about correcting historical wrong committed by humanity, says Bhupender Yadav
Project Cheetah is framed by wildlife officials and conservationists as an attempt to correct a historical wrong — the extinction of the cheetah in India, a ...
El Nino threat: Centre rolls out kharif contingency plan to shield crops
The Union Agriculture Ministry has directed state governments to activate district-level crop contingency plans to protect kharif output against an emerging ...
Strengthening India’s Greenhouse Gas inventory Systems: Three-Day Workshop held at CSIR-IIP in Collaboration with MoEFCC
A three-day national workshop on strengthening India's Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory systems was held at CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum (CSIR-IIP), Dehr...
DDWS Holds a National Level Review Meeting with Deputy Commissioners/ District Magistrates/ Collectors on Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 and Solid Waste Management Rules 2026 under Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen)
The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS), under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, convened a national-level review meeting with Deputy Commissioners,...
Various organisations, former civil servants oppose CJI’s environmental activists comment
A Supreme Court bench led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, while hearing a case concerning the expansion of Pipavav Port in Gujarat on May 11,...
No new dams in upper Ganga: The Centre’s long-winding road to ‘consensus’ on the issue
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) filed a counter-affidavit in the Supreme Court on May 19, 2026, formally stating that n...
Heat stress disrupts ventilation system in corals, proves fatal at 37°C: Study
A new study published in the journal *Science Advances* has revealed a previously unknown physiological mechanism by which heat stress kills corals: the coll...
Trump-backed push for deep-sea mining 'unlawful': ISA chief
The Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), Leticia Carvalho, has publicly declared that the push to mine the deep seabed in internati...
As temperatures rise, tropical forests absorb less carbon
A large-scale scientific study involving over 225 researchers across three continents has found that rising temperatures are measurably reducing tropical for...
Can parametric insurance really put a price on extreme heat — and protect India’s informal workers from its growing economic toll?
Parametric insurance pilots targeting informal women workers in Delhi and Faridabad automatically pay out cash when recorded temperatures cross pre-set thres...
CSIR‑IICT technology powers India’s compressed biogas scale-up
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Hyderabad, has developed the Anaerobic Gas Lift Reac...
Wind and solar generate more electricity than gas globally for first time in April
In April 2026, wind and solar together generated 22% of the world's electricity, surpassing gas at 20% — the first time renewable sources have crossed this t...
2 of 3 key India reservoirs have less than 40% water storage
The Central Water Commission (CWC) reported that storage across 166 monitored major dams had fallen to 33% of their combined live storage capacity of 183.565...
India abstains on UNGA resolution on ICJ climate opinion
On 20 May 2026, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution titled "Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the obligations of Stat...
ITA flags financial stress in India’s tea sector despite record 280 million kg exports
The Indian Tea Association (ITA) has flagged acute financial stress in India's tea sector despite the country recording a historic export of 280.40 million k...
No new hydel projects on Ganga in Uttarakhand: Govt
The Union Government informed the Supreme Court it will not permit any new hydroelectric projects in the upper Ganga basin — specifically the Alaknanda and B...
Centre tells Supreme Court no new hydel projects should come up in upper Ganga
Three Union Ministries — Jal Shakti, Environment Forest and Climate Change, and Power — filed a joint affidavit before the Supreme Court stating the governme...