Environment & Ecology
Climate, biodiversity, pollution control and environmental legislation
Human-wildlife interactions a challenge, but India’s coexistence-based management approach addressing them: Yadav
India acknowledged the growing challenge of human-wildlife interactions as wildlife populations and economic activity expand simultaneously, but affirmed tha...
Can India’s waste solve its energy crisis? Diving into bioenergy technologies
India's growing energy security concerns have intensified focus on bioenergy technologies that convert agricultural residue, food waste, sewage sludge, and o...
India, Norway elevate ties to Green Strategic Partnership, ink pacts on space, health, digital development
India and Norway elevated their bilateral relationship to a "Green Strategic Partnership" on May 18, 2026, during a state visit to Oslo. A Memorandum of Unde...
Why Agroforestry is key to India’s twin goals of carbon reduction and farmer income growth
Agroforestry — the deliberate integration of trees and shrubs into crop and livestock systems — is gaining renewed policy attention as a tool to simultaneous...
IISc study says Namma Metro Blue Line can run entirely on solar power
A techno-economic study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), conducted in collaboration with the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limite...
El Nino spells trouble for kharif harvests across India
A study by scientists at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research (ICAR-IIFSR), led by Subash N. Pillai, finds that El Niño events have consiste...
Why Iran war, monsoon worries could make 2026 India’s Year of Millets
The convergence of the West Asia (Iran) conflict, fears of a below-normal monsoon, and fertiliser supply disruptions is driving Indian farmers toward millets...
Kharif output dips by over 10% across states in El Niño years: Study
A recent study found that El Niño years cause kharif crop output to fall by more than 10% across numerous districts in multiple Indian states. Paddy (rice) a...
GNI project recipe for ecological disaster, expand existing defence assets on Great Nicobar: Jairam to Rajnath
Experts — including ecologists, geoscientists, and defence analysts — have described the proposed Holistic Development of Great Nicobar Island (GNI) as a rec...
Forest Rights and the Great Nicobar Mega-Project: The case before the Calcutta High Court
Three connected Public Interest Litigations (PILs) challenging Forest Rights Act violations in the Great Nicobar Island development project were admitted as ...
Great Nicobar project a recipe for ecological disaster: Jairam Ramesh
The Central government has been asserting strategic national interest as the primary justification for proceeding with the Holistic Development of Great Nico...
Online compliance to speed up environmental clearance for industrial expansion
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has made the Certified Compliance Report (CCR) process fully digital through the existing PAR...
DMRC rolls out hydrogen buses in Central Vista
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, in collaboration with Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), launched a hydrogen fuel cell-powered shuttle bus service in t...
State to tighten groundwater governance to prevent over exploitation of resource
Telangana's Irrigation Minister directed officials to treat groundwater conservation as a state-wide mass movement, with immediate steps to enforce stricter ...
India’s first satellite-tagged Ganges soft-shell turtle released in Kaziranga
India's first satellite-tagged Ganges softshell turtle (Nilssonia gangetica) was released into the Brahmaputra river system at Kaziranga National Park and Ti...
Hormuz disruption hits 18.4 million barrels daily oil flow, 110 bcm of annual LNG trade
The Strait of Hormuz has been effectively closed since late February 2026 following a US-Israel military conflict with Iran, with the Iranian Revolutionary G...
Supreme Court summons Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh officials over ‘casual approach’ to Chambal illegal sand mining
The Supreme Court summoned senior officials from Rajasthan — including the Additional Chief Secretary (Home) and Principal Secretaries of the Mining, Finance...
Geothermal energy could unlock 450 GW electricity potential in India: report
A joint report by Project InnerSpace and the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), titled "The Future of Geothermal in India," identifies India's ...
Transhipment terminal in Nicobar could be geopolitical lever, says Navy officer amid ecological debate
A senior naval officer articulated, at a strategic forum, that the proposed International Container Transhipment Terminal (ICTT) at Great Nicobar Island is n...
How do volcanoes affect the earth’s atmosphere?
Scientific understanding of volcanic impacts on Earth's atmosphere has been consolidated and is gaining renewed attention as researchers study the relationsh...