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India, UK reiterate commitment to climate action ahead of COP26 summit

"Alok Sharma and PM Modi met today (on Tuesday) in Delhi to discuss their countries' shared commitment to climate action in the lead up to the COP26 summit in Glasgow this year," it said

Protecting India's wetlands

New body for this ecologically vital area is just the beginning

1,300 forest fires reported in Mizoram in 2020, 1,090 caused due to 'jhum'

Around 1,090 incidents were caused due to slash-and- burn ''jhum'' cultivation and only 210 were due to natural causes, they said

Chipko's variegated roots

Book review of The Chipko Movement: A People's History

General Motors sets 2040 target date to achieve Global Carbon Neutrality

GM said it will offer 30 all-electric models globally by mid-decade and 40 percent of the company's US models offered will be battery electric vehicles by the end of 2025, the release added

India, France launch initiative to boost ties in sustainable development

Welcoming Pompili on her maiden visit to India, Javadekar emphasised on the significance of India-France alliance in working towards climate change

Climate change emerges as 'global emergency' in biggest-ever poll

The survey covered 50 countries with over half the world's population

Why Centre resisting translating draft EIA in all vernacular languages? HC

The ASG also claimed that translating it in all 22 languages would create a lot of administrative problems as the government "does not have the wherewithal to carry out the translations"

Davos: Heavy industry, transport sectors to align on net-zero climate plans

The agreement, to be announced at the virtual Davos World Economic Forum on Wednesday, includes giants like miner Arcelor Mittal, shipper Maersk, and oil behemoth Shell

Greta Thunberg calls out 3 decades of 'blah, blah, blah' on climate change

Speaking at the Davos Agenda Summit, the young climate activist said, "My name is Greta Thunberg and I am not here to make deals"

US: Joe Biden plans temporary halt of oil activity in Arctic refuge

The plans, along with other executive actions, were announced by press secretary Jen Psaki

Climate change may change rainfall pattern in south India, intensify floods

The current study highlighted the drastic alterations to come over future decades in India by isolating the response in the Eastern and Western Hemisphere zones

Biden may cancel Keystone XL pipeline permit likely on first day: Report

The project, which would move oil from the province of Alberta to Nebraska, had been slowed by legal issues in the United States

Environmental hazards kill 3,000 people yearly in Israel

Some 3,000 people die in Israel every year as a result of exposure to environmental hazards, said a report issued by the Ministry of Health.

Environment vs Economy: Why govt is going slow on single-use plastic ban

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had vowed to take the Indian people along in a nationwide commitment to end the use of single use plastic

The year that was: What made news other than coronavirus in 2020

The year that started with nationwide protests against CAA and NRC has ended with ongoing protests against Farm Laws

India faced 2 of 10 most costly climate disasters, damage worth over $10 bn

India is among the countries that are most vulnerable to the fallouts of climate change, and in 2020 it was hit by several extreme weather events

In a year of extreme weather events, govt pushed coal, diluted green laws

As the year draws to a close, we take a look at the major events that affected India's energy, climate and environment policies

Finding cure to pushing cosmic boundaries: 2020 was no bad year for science

It was the science that came to the aid of the planet as we settled into working from home and other 'new normals' amid successive lockdowns.

Weak climate resilience leaves 75% Indian districts prone to extreme events

Over 638 million people in India are vulnerable to extreme climatic events that have surged in the last decade