A new project aims to document India’s customary laws
Documenting customary laws is a step towards community-led conservation
The world needs transformative changes, else...
Humanity will miss Sustainable Development Goals, warns IPBES report
How Gujarat succeeded in co-processing plastic waste in cement kilns and promoting circular economy
The state’s experience is a great example for others to follow
Govt bans plastic, but permits firms to make it, reveals RTI
Firms currently just need an acknowledgement, no approval, to manufacture plastic
Madras HC stays expansion of Sterlite copper smelter; power supply cut
Protests against the expansion of the smelter have been going on for three months
Environmental crimes: India may take upto 33 yrs to clear case backlog, says report
By the end of 2018, the number of cases pending trial climbed to 48,238
UNEP report at COP28 reveals $7 trillion invested globally every year on activities directly harming nature
Urgent need to reduce and re-direct finance flows to keep global temperatures below 1.5°C warming
India will need 34 years to dispose of pending cases under environment protection act
Over 88,400 environment-related cases pending trial in 2022; cases under the Environment Protection Act are being disposed-off at the slowest rate
CSE & DTE roundtable: What to expect from COP28
Global stocktake, loss and damage, mitigation, carbon markets, decarbonisation and climate finance. Here is what can happen at COP28
Antarctic ozone hole now larger, thinner & may take longer to recover. Mesosphere has a role to play: Study
Meteorological conditions could have largely driven fluctuations in the size of the Antarctic ozone hole
Plastic-free planet: 3Rs of managing waste, addressing plastic pollution crisis at source come up at INC-3
Sharing of technology between developed and developing countries among concerns raised
In 4 years, India lost over 30 million hectares of healthy land to degradation: UN data
This is almost 10% of all the country's entire landmass
It is raining plastic: 74 tonnes of microplastics fell from the air on Auckland in 2020
Tinier particles that are inhaled easily were found in higher quantities
Monsoon 2022 will be ‘normal’ but highly erratic month-to-month: Skymet
Abrupt and intense rains with abnormally long dry spells predicted
Sunderlal Bahuguna: The oxygen for the global green fraternity
Anecdotes from the environmental activist's visit to Kolkata a decade back
Cyclone Yaas: Fishing vessels return to shore as Odisha ramps up preparation
Special cyclone shelters are being set up for evacuues who test positive for COVID-19
Is show cause notice sufficient to drive compliance in industrial units?
The current regulatory regime is delaying compliance by a decade
Need public spending to fund Sustainable Development Goals: UNCTAD
'Fund poor, developing countries; lend easy to low-income economies'
This chemical controls whether you would be fat or fatter
Genes interact with obesogens in the environment to make a person fatter
Environment reports: potential and challenges of deploying clean energy across continents
Here's an overview of recently released reports and studies on renewable energy
Pollution in news on May 23
Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on pollution
Conservationists slam draft of new government report on elephants
It fails to understand the ecology of elephants, they say
Just transition in petrochemicals: Dahej’s industries proving to be major obstacles for climate targets
Petrochemicals, including plastics, emit large amounts of greenhouse gases during the process of manufacture — from start till end
Land of Fire and Ice: Will the Grindavik eruption in Iceland be another Eyjafjallajokull?
For now, the eruption does not present a threat to life, according to the Icelandic government
We rely heavily on groundwater — but pumping too much threatens thousands of underground species
About a third of the world’s largest groundwater basins are in distress, meaning levels are continuously declining