Environment Stories

The international community celebrates World Tourism Day (WTD) each year on 27 September to foster awareness of the importance of tourism and its social, cultural, political, and economic value.

The 2024 UN Summit of the Future aims to accelerate progress on the SDGs, with a focus on financing, peace, digital cooperation, youth, and UN reform.

The COP28 summit urges nations to submit ambitious NDCs by February 2025, focusing on ending fossil fuel expansion, enhancing renewable energy, and ensuring climate resilience.

A new report urges key countries to accelerate wind and solar energy expansion to meet 1.5°C climate targets, calling for a five-fold increase by 2030 to combat rising temperatures.

Tourists visit Ladakh to see the snow leopard, feeling grief (solastalgia) for nature's loss. Ironically, their trips, fueled by energy-intensive travel, worsen climate change.

A new report reveals the severe impact of this summer's heat waves in India, highlighting discrepancies between reported and actual heatstroke deaths.

Discarded aligners often end up in landfills where they take decades to decompose, releasing microplastics into the environment. This needs to change.

The Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project will drastically change the river's flow, affecting fishing, farming, and the lives of downstream communities. Concerns include erosion, fish movement, and reduced access to natural resources like driftwood.

A recent study suggests that India's geological landscape is undergoing significant transformation, with indications that the Indian Continental Plate might be undergoing a horizontal split rather than a conventional sideways separation.

The Assam government approved oil exploration near Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, endangering the Hoolock Gibbon. Habitat loss from deforestation and fragmentation already threatens these endangered apes, and new drilling project poses a significant risk