Climate change will force transboundary fish stocks to move from habitats, migration paths: Report

Shifts in regions highly dependent on fishery can lead to conflicts between countries

Global treaty to cut plastic production needed urgently: EIA report ahead of UN summit

Over 70 big consumer brands also appeal to reduce plastic production in joint statement

Global unemployment projected to stand at 207 million in 2022: ILO

The COVID-19 pandemic prevented a full and balanced recovery of labour markets in 2021

2021 sixth warmest year since 1880

The January-December 2021 average global surface temperature was the sixth highest since global records began in 1880

Global warming: Arctic lightning strikes up drastically in 2021

The North Pole saw 7,278 lightning strikes in 2021 — nearly double in the previous nine years combined  

Significant increase in rainfall in north, central Africa: Study

Almost all regions of the continent, except the south and east, showed a significant increase in annual rainfall from 1983 to 2020    

Royal Dutch Shell to temporarily halt its seismic survey in South Africa’s Wild Coast

Shell’s seismic blasting for exploration of petroleum resources halted off the Wild Coast region, a remote stretch of eastern shoreline …

Bioenergy crops create cooling effect on cultivated areas: Study

Global air temperature decreases by 0.03~0.08 °C, after 50 years of large-scale bio-energy crop cultivation 

Ken-Betwa river interlinking: Core forest area of Panna tiger reserve will come under water, warns study

At loss: 2 million trees, tiger and its species, 58.03 sq km of critical tiger habitat

Ozone-destroying greenhouse gas emissions from China increased significantly: Study

After 2012, emissions of dichloromethane from China accounted for 50–60 per cent of the global total

Land, water resources are at breaking point: Report

Pressure on land and water systems compromising agricultural productivity, food security

Global malaria response suffered due to COVID-19: World Malaria Report 2021

COVID-19 service-related disruptions responsible for 69,000 additional malaria deaths in 2020, says new WHO report

People with past exposure to antiretroviral drugs thrice as likely to resist them: WHO

Minimising spread of HIV drug resistance is one of the important aspects of broader global response to antimicrobial resistance

Stolen river: NGT orders Jindal Steel to pay Rs 2 crore for ‘destroying’ Odisha nullah

JSPL, based out of Jindal Nagar in Angul, had interfered with nature by changing the natural course of the Kurdabahali Nullah that cannot be …

Endemic Western Ghats flycatchers could lose third of their range due to climate change: Study

The Black-and-orange Flycatcher could lose up to 31% and Nilgiri Flycatcher 46% of its range by 2050, according to a recent study

Need to make agri-food systems resilient to address food security: SOFA 2021

Food costs could increase for up to 845 million people if a disruption to critical transport links were to occur, SOFA 2021 flagged

Study identifies India among global flash drought hotspots from 1980-2015

The study identified rapid drought intensification across the United States, Brazil, southern Africa, Spain, western Russia and Australia as …

Wheat could expand to higher latitudes if warming trends continue: Study

Global maize yield could decline 24% while wheat would increase 17% by 2030 if the world warms like it is doing now, says study

‘Hyperlocal neighbourhoods’ can promote sustainable travel, help decarbonise transport sector: Report

Trip avoidance research is the need of the hour, finds study

Intensive poaching led to more tuskless female elephants in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park

The evolutionary shift can have a far-ranging effect on the local ecosystem

Plastic pollution in aquatic systems may triple by 2040: UNEP

Around 23-37 million tonnes of waste could end up in the ocean a year by 2040, up from 9-14 million tonnes a year in 2016 

STPs in 3 Punjab towns lying defunct: NGT monitoring committee

Poor performance of sewage treatment plants due to delayed payment by municipal bodies, monitoring committee report to NGT  

Climate crisis: A quarter of all critical infrastructure in US may become inoperable in 2021

At least 2 million miles of road face the risk of becoming impassable due to floods 

Public banks responsible for $800 billion in damages to nature annually: Report

Some 450 public development banks worldwide are exposed to a ‘dependency risk’ worth $4.6 trillion, due to their investments in nature-…

Urbanisation to blame for Chennai’s flood woes, integrated system need of the hour: Report

If timely measures to put in place a flood management system are not taken, Chennai could see a rerun of 2015 floods, says Tamil Nadu government