Ten years on from the historic Paris climate summit, which ended with the world’s first and only global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions, it is easy to dwell on its failures. But the successes go less remarked. Renewable energy smashed records last year, growing by 15% and accounting for more than 90% of all…
North Bengal has always been a place where forests, wildlife and humankind stood undisturbed. Humans have never been hostile, barring a few incidences of killing as what we witness today. For generations, tea gardens, small villages, and dense jungles have shaped a landscape where humans, elephants and leopards were never in a confrontational mood; But…
As the Australian summer gets under way, many of us are planning holidays. When it comes to limiting emissions associated with travel, a staycation or local holiday – by train, bus or car – remains the lowest-impact option. But overseas travel by Australians has been increasing in recent decades, with Indonesia, New Zealand, Japan, the…
Gaza has been hit by heavy rains and low temperatures, deepening the misery of most of its 2.2 million population who are living in tents after two years of Israeli bombardment. Thousands of homeless people have been washed out of their makeshift shelters and forced to seek emergency refuge Source link
Set against blooming mustard flower beds, this year’s SARAS Aajeevika Food Festival, organised by the Union Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, from November 29 to December 9, was organised in the lush green manicured gardens of Sunder Nursery — a favourite winter refuge for Delhiites. The festival’s primary objective is to showcase Indian…
It was 3am Sunday when Robin and Paul McLean received the text. A fire was encroaching on their Lake Macquarie home, and it was too late to leave. Their adult daughter, who lives with them, is confined to her bed due to disability and has her own evacuation plan that includes calling an ambulance if…
India in November 2025 launched a domestically developed CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)-based therapy, BIRSA-101, to provide an affordable cure for sickle cell anaemia, a hereditary blood disorder prevalent in tribal and rural regions, Jagat Prakash Nadda, Union minister for health and family welfare, told the Lok Sabha. Under the , screening is…
When a mountain is no longer a mountain In December 2025, the Supreme Court of India, acting on recommendations from expert bodies including the Union Ministry of Environment, the Forest Survey of India, and the Geological Survey of India, redefined the criteria for what constitutes a “mountain.” What might appear as a minor technical adjustment…
On the concrete floor of a greenhouse in rural Kansas stands a neat grid of 100 plastic plant pots, each holding a straggly crown of strappy, grass-like leaves. These plants are perennials – they keep growing, year after year. That single characteristic separates them from soya beans, wheat, maize, rice and every other major grain…
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Paris climate treaty, one of the landmark days in climate-action history. Attending the conference as a journalist, I watched and listened and wondered whether 194 countries could ever agree on anything at all, and the night before they did, people who I thought were more sophisticated than me…