Environment Stories

Jal Jeevan Mission has made a successful connection to a water source in South Kashmir's Kulgam district thus ending the village of Peer Mohalla's wait for clean drinking water.

Due to wildfires raging across several parts of the country, Colombia declared a disaster situation on Thursday, since November, Colombia has been battling forest fires that have destroyed over 17,000 hectares (42,008 acres)

Scientists have found some of the world’s oldest living animals in a lake in the Arizona desert, USA. Some of these creatures were born in 1918 and are still alive today.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign looked at how these VOCs can change in tomato plants. This research was published in the Journal of Chemical Ecology.

The study, conducted by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) team, found that while El Niño, a natural weather pattern, also played a role, it was not as significant as previously thought.

Global warming is speeding up and it’s causing an unexpected problem: it’s making it harder for us to understand Earth’s past climate. A new study by the Ice Memory initiative has shown a worrying truth.

One of the most robust measures of Earth’s changing climate is that winter is warming more quickly than other seasons. The cascade of changes it brings, including ice storms and rain in regions that were once reliably below freezing

The lack of snow and rain over the western Himalayas, which has persisted from December 2023 into January 2024, could potentially lead to heat waves in March and April, followed by heavy rainfall in the pre-monsoon season over northwest India

Scientists from the University of Lausanne and other international collaborators have found that Alpine glaciers are likely to lose at least a third of their volume by 2050. This is expected to happen even if global warming stops immediately.

Ski resorts in Kashmir, and the Alps around the world, are facing a problem with snow. The solutions aren’t as simple as just waiting for snowfall. I remember when our family used to go to the Ardennes in central France for winter break