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World Environment Day 2025: Inspiring slogans, wishes and messages to share

World Environment Day 2025 is celebrated on June 5 every year. Here are the inspiring slogans, heartfelt wishes, and meaningful messages to share with friends, family, and colleagues

President Murmu, PM Modi call for united efforts to conserve environment

On World Environment Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called for deepening efforts towards protecting the planet and overcoming the challenges facing it. He said on X, "This World Environment Day, let's deepen our efforts towards protecting our planet and overcoming the challenges we face. I also compliment all those working at the grassroots to make our environment greener and better." Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and held annually on June 5 since 1973, World Environment Day is the largest global platform for environmental public outreach, the UN notes.

World Environment Day 2025: Download HD images for WhatsApp & Facebook

Every year, World Environment Day 2025 is celebrated on June 5. Here are images to share on WhatsApp, Facebook and more

World Environment Day 2025: Essays for students in 100, 150 and 200 words

Essay on World Environment Day 2025: World Environment Day, celebrated on June 5, raises awareness about protecting nature, fighting pollution, and promoting sustainability for a greener future

Aravalli Green Wall Project: India's theme for this World Environment Day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will officially inaugurate the project on June 5. Last year the theme was 'Ek Ped Maa ke Naam', which continues

Plan B for the planet depends on oversight, not technology alone

For now, SRM remains what it's always been - an audacious, deeply uncertain proposition

US Supreme Court eases key environmental law to speed development projects

The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the scope of environmental reviews required for major infrastructure projects in a ruling that could accelerate development of railroads, highways and pipelines around the country. The 8-0 decision follows an appeal to the high court from backers of a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion project in Utah, which is aimed at quadrupling oil production in the remote area of sandstone and sagebrush. Environmental groups said the decision would have sweeping impacts on how the National Environmental Policy Act is applied. The landmark environmental law requires federal agencies to study the likely environmental impacts of government-funded projects in an often lengthy review process. President Donald Trump's administration has already said it's speeding up that process after the president in January declared a national energy emergency and vowed to boost US oil and gas production. Justice Brett Kavanaugh referred to the decision as a course ..

Climate change may fuel spread of fungi that could 'eat you from inside out'

Scientists from Manchester University have warned that rising temperatures could fuel the rapid global spread of Aspergillus, a deadly fungus already responsible for millions of deaths each year

India to exceed 2030 climate target with up to 57% cut in emissions: Report

India is on track to exceed its climate target of reducing the emissions intensity of its GDP by 45 per cent by 2030 as compared to 2005 levels, according to a new analysis. The emissions modelling analysis by Delhi-based think-tank Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) and Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE), an NGO, projected that India's energy sector emission intensity could decrease by 48-57 per cent by 2030 as compared to 2005 levels. However, achieving the 2070 net zero target (balancing emissions with removals) will require additional policy interventions, centred around carbon pricing, along with power pricing reforms, fiscal support for clean technologies, enhanced energy efficiency and behaviour change initiatives. The findings, published this week in the international journal Energy and Climate Change', suggest that India's 2035 NDC targets could include reducing emissions intensity of GDP between 55 and 66 per cent relative to 2005 (with most ...

Mountain Dialogue: India, Nepal pledge deeper climate, biodiversity ties

Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav met Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli to discuss cooperation on clean energy, biodiversity, and climate action during the Sagarmatha Sambaad in Kathmandu

Air pollution levels across India well above global standards: WHO official

Strategies like LPG subsidies and a switch to cleaner cooking fuels could help India become a leader in meeting this challenge, says Dr Maria Neira, director of environment and health at WHO

Is your pet dog leaving a bigger carbon pawprint than you know?

From predators to polluters: A study by researchers at Curtin University, Australia argues that pet dogs might be a greater threat to the wildlife and environment, and they're getting a free pass

Maharashtra's Dharavi plan to shift thousands to toxic landfill sparks row

Maharashtra clears Adani-backed plan to relocate over 50,000 Dharavi residents to Deonar landfill, which may violate CPCB guidelines

World's largest deforestation: Indonesia to clear forests size of Belgium

Indonesia's planned deforestation threatens the world's third-largest rainforest, home to endangered species like orangutans, elephants, and rare giant forest flowers

'My Head For A Tree' offers rare insight into the Bishnoi way of life

The author has approached the subject with curiosity, rigour and emotional depth

World Sparrow Day 2025: The silent disappearance of a once-familiar bird

World Sparrow Day is celebrated every year on March 20. The population of sparrows has declined significantly in the last two decades and this day highlights the need to protect sparrows

Atmospheric CO2 reaches 800,000-year high at 420 ppm in 2023: WMO

Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reached 420 parts per million in 2023, the highest in the last 8,00,000 years, according to the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) State of the Climate report published on Wednesday. The report said long-term global warming is currently estimated to be between 1.34 and 1.41 degrees Celsius compared to the 1850-1900 baseline. It said that tropical cyclones, floods, droughts and other disasters in 2024 led to the highest number of new displacements recorded in the past 16 years. These events also worsened food crises and caused massive economic losses. Carbon dioxide levels in 2023 (the latest year with complete global data) were 420.0 0.1 parts per million (ppm), 2.3 ppm higher than in 2022 and 151 per cent of the pre-industrial level (1750). The WMO said 420 ppm corresponds to 3,276 gigatonnes (or 3.276 trillion tonnes) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The report said the past 10 years (2015-2024) were the warmest on record, with each o

ICMR should study air pollution, suggest ways to handle effects: Parl panel

In the report, the panel stated that the efforts initiated by ICMR to study the health implications of air pollution are taken note of

Strengthen NDCs, int'l cooperation to reduce climate change effects: Yadav

This comes as global temperatures continue to rise. After 2024, January was the warmest month on record, with temperatures 1.75°C higher than pre-industrial levels

India advocates tech transfer between Global South and North: Yadav

India, as a voice of Global South, believes that to fight climate change, developing countries need financial assistance, said Union minister for environment, forest and climate change Bhupendra Yadav