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Sacred groves in northern Western Ghats face highest human pressure, study finds

Beyond water scarcity: Efficiency, conservation and Delhi’s path forward

Daily heat tracker: Day temperatures above normal in 30 cities

Sacred groves in northern Western Ghats face highest human pressure, study finds

Daily heat tracker: Day temperatures above normal in 30 cities

Electricity Amendment Bill: Centre signals course correction after stakeholder pushback

DISCOMs post rare profit, but questions remain over sustainability and accounting reforms

Why Tanzania’s young people took to the streets — and what their protests reveal

African scientists outline actions to reshape health research landscape, spur innovation

BNHS and NMCG launch project to protect Indian Skimmer in the Ganga Basin

Gobar Times: The peacock’s changing world

Domestic workers do not need a separate law, says committee formed on Supreme Court directions

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 16, 2026)

Over half of India’s major deltas are sinking, driven by groundwater extraction: Study

Whiskers all aquiver

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The defence of borders must coexist with that of biospheres

The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states and electro-states — here’s what to watch for in 2026

El Niño missing, blame fossil fuel for deadlier climate extremes in 2025: WWA

‘Solving one crisis by deepening another’: Critics question Tanzania’s decision to tax imported vehicles and fund its HIV response

Increasing demand for minerals used in renewables could further worsen mining-related deforestation in future: Study

Ecological myopia: the blind spot holding back climate action

Wild lions in Europe? New paper examines archaeological mound to show young man living in Copper Age Bulgaria was attacked by feline

Becoming human in southern Africa: What ancient hunter-gatherer genomes reveal

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Sewage before supply

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