COP24: Sports industry vows support to fight climate change

Sports for Climate Action Framework launched in Poland to raise awareness, rope in sports sector  

Voluntary commitments can protect the ocean

Since the time taken to negotiate environmental commitments is not always worth the outcome, the UN Ocean Conference is doing away with this time lag

Bucking extinction

Even as the number of species nearing extinction increases each year, here's a look at the conservation strategies that have helped revive four …

Indian kids under the grip of type-1 diabetes

World Diabetes Atlas 2015 highlighted that more than 70,000 children are affected by type-1 diabetes in India

Large-scale hunting pushes yellow-breasted Bunting towards extinction

Known in Chinese as the ‘rice bird’, the Bunting is considered a delicacy in China and Cambodia

Russia's role raises hopes and fears

With Russia participating in the first unified space station project, international cooperation reaches new heights. But there are also doubts …

Proposed Japanese "colony" encounters protests

A proposal for a township near Bangalore as a lure to bring in huge investments from Japan is encountering opposition from farm and environmental …

COVID-19, war and hunger: Yemen’s humanitarian crisis is becoming worse

Over 10 million are on the brink of famine; as many as 400,000 children are at the risk of dying, according to UN  

The first-ever IUCN assessment of the Himalayan Wolf is out. And it is grim

Species listed as ‘Vulnerable’, with just 2,275-3,792 mature individuals in the wild

African raptor population declines 88% in 40 years, many crossing IUCN threshold: Report

Evidence indicates two-thirds of 42 examined species to be globally threatened  

60% increase in overall tiger population, but habitat & biodiversity loss threatening Southeast Asian big cats

Countries submit population numbers from 2010-2022 to Global Tiger Recovery Program, CITES

Climate disasters displace more people than conflicts now: World Migration Report 2022

In India, disasters displaced 4 million people in 2020

Improving utilities’ finances, workforce investment could better grid establishment to integrate renewables: IEA

Over the next two decades, based on current national net zero goals, wind and solar PV may account for over 80% of global power capacity addition

Monkeypox not public health emergency of international concern yet. Do we need to update our understanding of this label?

Emergency Committee meeting indication enough of how serious the monkeypox outbreak is

10 Most Critically Endangered Animals in the world

These 10 species are the most likely to go extinct in the next few years

India earned $12 billion by taxing coal production

Investors, insurers urge G20 countries to end subsidies to fossil fuels by 2020

Africa’s vultures dwindling, says study

Raptors diminishing across continent due to a number of reasons

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Conservation corridors

Asia to have its first cross-country linkages of fragmented habitats

Troubled exchange

India, China unite over climate cause

Women’s Day 2024: Investing in women most effective way to accelerate growth, says UN Women

1 in every 10 women globally lives in extreme poverty; war & crisis eroding decades of progress in gender equality

Days after IUCN event, Macron proposes killing of 110,000 wild birds in France

Birders say draft decrees issued by Emmanuel Macron to kill thousands of birds in France done to elicit hunting lobbies’ support ahead of …

There are 50 million people in situations of modern slavery on any given day: Report

Of these 27.6 million are in forced labour and 22 million are trapped in forced marriage