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Last Updated:December 28, 2025, 02:39 IST The matter will be heard by a three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, alongside Justices JK Maheshwari and AG Masih The Aravallis serve as a critical ecological corridor and a ‘green wall’ that prevents the eastward expansion of the Thar Desert into the fertile plains of…
Last Updated:October 24, 2025, 05:08 IST The nation’s forests and tree cover sequestered an estimated 150 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year between 2021 and 2025 Globally, the world’s forests acted as a net carbon sink, removing approximately 0.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually during the same period. Representational image India has…
Pakistan is once again experiencing the ruthlessness of the monsoon season. The country’s northern regions, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Punjab, have been affected the worst. Over 700 people have been killed in the ongoing Pakistan floods so far, making it the highest toll in comparison to last year’s floods. Houses, people, animals, and acres of…
Plastic pollution is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. From the depths of the ocean to the air we breathe, plastic has infiltrated every corner of our planet. Every year, millions of tons of single-use plastic end up in landfills or waterways, harming marine life, contaminating soil, and even entering the human…
The Hague, Netherlands: As marathon climate change hearings wrapped up Friday at the world’s top court, a representative for vulnerable nations voiced “huge disappointment” at the attitude of top polluters and urged judges to make them legally accountable for historic emissions. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has played host to history over the past…
When we decided to move back to our country from California more than a decade ago, many of my friends, especially from the Indian diaspora, advised us to rethink our decision. “Look around. Are you absolutely sure?” asked a childhood friend whom I had gone to school with in the Delhi of the 1980s, but…
A dangerous weather phenomenon called a bomb cyclone that occurs in mid-latitudes – between Earth’s tropics and the polar regions – can bring strong and damaging winds, torrential rains, heavy snowfall, flooding and frigid temperatures. Here is an explanation of bomb cyclones: WHAT IS A BOMB CYCLONE? A bomb cyclone, also referred to as explosive…
A dangerous weather phenomenon called a bomb cyclone that occurs in mid-latitudes – between Earth’s tropics and the polar regions – can bring strong and damaging winds, torrential rains, heavy snowfall, flooding and frigid temperatures. Here is an explanation of bomb cyclones: WHAT IS A BOMB CYCLONE? A bomb cyclone, also referred to as explosive…
If you want to go to Kerala from Delhi, you will reach it in 3.5 hours by flight and in 2-3 days by train. If children have to go to school, there is a bus, to go to office the distance of several kilometers is covered by the metro in a few minutes. All this…
Paris: Deforestation continued last year at a rate far beyond pledges to end the practice by 2030, according to a major study published Tuesday. Forests nearly the size of Ireland were lost in 2023, according to two dozen research organisations, NGOs and advocacy groups, with 6.37 million hectares (15.7 million acres) of trees felled and…