Rescue crews work on site after a cargo ship was hit by a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military off eastern England, on March 10, 2025, setting both vessels ablaze and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea. | Photo Credit: AP British officials were concerned about possible environmental damage on Tuesday (March … Read more
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 years ago on March 11. Workers walk around in many areas wearing only surgical masks and regular clothes. It’s a different story for those who enter the reactor buildings, including the three damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. … Read more
Children play near a brick kiln on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Only seven countries met World Health Organization (WHO) air quality standards last year, data showed on Tuesday, as researchers warned that the war on smog would only get harder after the United States shut down … Read more
Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit … Read more
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and oncologist Nori Dattatreya at the release of the latter’s autobiography, ‘Mantada to Manhattan’, in Vijayawada on Monday (March 10, 2025). | Photo Credit: K.V.S. GIRI “There are a few people who charted new paths, created history with their contribution to society and set an example for others and renowned … Read more
Bronze winged jacana young at Karani Thangal in Ottiyambakkam on Karanai Main Road on March 4, 2024. Photo: Prince Frederick | Photo Credit: PRINCE FREDERICK In this image taken at Karapakkam on February 24, 2025 are two moorhen chicks, both displaying a hint of purple on the breast. Photo: Prince Frederick | Photo Credit: … Read more
Horseshoe crab which has survived for over 445 million years without undergoing any morphological change is a living fossil and is only found only on select coasts of the world. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Raising concerns over hundreds of Horseshoe Crab carcasses scattered along the coast of Balasore in Odisha, environmentalists warned that the … Read more
The tea plantation industry in the Peerumade hills of Idukki in Kerala has reached a historic milestone, marking 150 years since its first recorded commercial cultivation in 1875. | Photo Credit: JOMON PAMPAVALLEY The tea plantation industry in the Peerumade hills of Idukki in Kerala has reached a historic milestone, marking 150 years since its … Read more
India recorded its warmest February in 124 years this year. The India Meteorological Department has already raised an alarm for March, saying that the month will experience above normal temperatures and more than the usual number of days with heat waves. The period coincides with the beginning of India’s wheat harvest season, and extreme heat … Read more
Madhav Tiger Reserve is Madhya Pradesh’s 9th Tiger Reserve. Photo: X/@byadavbjp The Centre declared the Madhav National Park in Madhya Pradesh as the country’s 58th tiger reserve on Sunday (March 9, 2025), with Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav making the announcement. The newly added national park was also the ninth from the State to get … Read more
The branch Library on Marina Beach will soon be opened to the public with new facilities such as a play area, outdoor seating and an ocean station. The 500 sq.ft. library occupies a small space next to the Marina Swimming Pool. “It required new basic amenities since it was built in the 2000. The aim … Read more
A file photo of Punjab farmers during the protest at Shambhu Border. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Punjab Government informed the Supreme Court of India on Friday (February 28, 2025) that representatives of the Union Government and farmers’ leaders have met twice to discuss issues, including the guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops, … Read more
IPCC Chairperson Jim Skea said that the IPCC, the global scientific authority on the state of knowledge and challenges from global warming, has begun work on its seventh cycle of assessment reports. File | Photo Credit: AFP The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global scientific authority on the state of knowledge and challenges … Read more
Plataniste or Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangética), Karnaphuli river, Bangladesh | Photo Credit: The Hindu The story so far: The first ever census of Gangetic dolphins, the only riverine dolphins in India, which began four years ago, has found 6,327 of the species in the river Ganga and its tributaries. What did the census survey … Read more
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Punch the plastic metal hook. Photo: Special Arrangement | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Indumathi M. Nambi does not want to let plastic waste off the hook. Never a believer in half measures, she brings a real hook to her campaign — a hook designed by her students under her guidance. A professor with the environment … Read more
An elephant at the waterhole | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A herd of thirsty elephants, a water source across a human settlement, worried locals and concerned forest department officials, might sound like the perfect template for human-animal conflict. Forest department officials of the Inchathotty Forest Station under the Munnar Forest Division in Kerala, however, flipped … Read more
In one of his first acts in his second term as president of the United States, Donald Trump fired several hundred employees of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The move triggered a lot of discussion in the climate community and beyond about how it will hurt critical weather and climate services. The … Read more
Inauguration of the workshop on Panchayats and Climate Action at the Fireflies Intercultural Centre on February 25, 2025. C Narayanaswamy, Chairman of the 5th Finance Commission of Karnataka, Siddhartha, founder at Pipal Tree, and Chandan Gowda Ramakrishna Hegde Chair professor at ISEC light the lamp. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Representatives from around 80 gram … Read more
Brazil’s Minister of Environment Marina Silva. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Threats from a global tariff war and the U.S.’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement were inimical to progress at the 30th edition of the Conference of Parties (COP), the annual global climate meet, set to be held at Belem, Brazil in November, the country’s … Read more
CPCB ranked Byrnihat, an industrial town about 25 k.m. from Guwahati on the highway to Shillong, as the urban space with the worst air quality. File | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR GUWAHATI Assam and Meghalaya need to work together to make India’s most polluted town on the border between the two States more breathable, … Read more
Fit with Fab Farzana Begum walks into Fit with Fab every morning in Visakhapatnam, her hijab neatly tucked in place, a symbol of her identity. “My hijab is a part of me, just like my strength. It doesn’t limit me; it empowers me,” she says. In a field where women are often under-represented, she stands … Read more
Green Humour | Photo Credit: Rohan Chakravarty Green Humour | Photo Credit: Rohan Chakravarty Rohan Chakravarty is a cartoonist and illustrator from Nagpur. His series, ‘Green Humour’, consists of cartoons and comics on wildlife, nature conservation, environmental issues, sustainability, and all things green. Published – March 06, 2025 03:34 pm IST
If you live in an apartment (as most of us do), it is easy to understand how it takes all kinds to make any world — the brash and the hardworking, the domineering and the docile, where each type plays a part. The analogy is quite apt when one wants to describe the Insect Cafe. … Read more
Tipping Point: Unusually early heatwaves in India | Video Credit: The Hindu India recorded its warmest February this year in the last 124 years. March is looking even worse, as the India Meteorological Department has already warned about an unusually warm month with quite a few heatwave days. Heatwaves in India typically occur between March … Read more
Representational file image. Photo: Special Arrangement Maharashtra Forest Minister Ganesh Naik on Wednesday, replying to a debate, said that the State’s tiger count had increased to 444 this year from 101 in 2000. The increase in the tiger population was one of the reasons for the rise in man-animal conflicts, with fatal attacks on humans, … Read more
One of Africa’s giant beetles is just one step away from extinction. New research has found that one species of the enormous Goliath beetles has been almost wiped out by the west African cocoa industry and, to a lesser extent, by the international trade in dried insects. Luca Luiselli, a professor of biostatistics and ecology at the … Read more
From seed distribution to crop calendars, the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) has an action plan to tackle the dry conditions it expects in Kashmir this summer. Kashmir has had a dry winter this year with the months of January and February recording a rainfall deficit of around 80%. Even though the … Read more
Gujarat is the world’s last abode of Asiatic lions. | Photo Credit: VIJAY SONEJI At least 286 lions, among them 143 cubs, died in Gujarat over the last two years, and 58 of these fatalities were due to unnatural causes, state Forest Minister Mulubhai Bera informed the legislative assembly on Tuesday (March 4, 2025). Responding … Read more
The Centre’s law officer informed that most States had also not completed the exercise of consolidation of records of their forest lands under Rule 16(1) of the Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Adhiniyam Rules, 2023. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 4, 2025) issued a stern warning that Chief Secretaries of … Read more