How Putin’s war and small islands are accelerating the global shift to clean energy, and what to watch for in 2023

International Energy Agency revised its projection of renewable energy growth upward by 30%

The Philippines gets its first ‘zero waste’ island 

Residents of Apo Island now rinse and dry out their plastic bottles, food cans and other recyclables before throwing them away

Move over record air temperatures, Delhi’s scorched land surface is making waves

Delhi’s land surface temperature almost doubled in a little over a month, aggravating heatwave conditions

America’s first ‘climate refugees’ and a vanishing island

The island, which had over 22,000 acres of land in 1955, has lost about 98 per cent of it due to sea level rise, saltwater intrusion and subsidence

Omnipresent Poison

The maximum residue limits for the pesticide endosulfan in soilwater and vegetables from Padre have been breached several times over. But human …

Maldives can adapt to sea-level rise. Here’s how

New study supports raising island height, building new habitations to save Maldives, low-lying areas

Cyclone Gabrielle: how microgrids could help keep the power on during extreme weather events

Microgrids are self-sufficient and can operate independently or in conjunction with the larger grid. They can run on different types of renewable …

Gaping chasms

A proposed bridge to link Vypeen island with the mainland spurs controversies

Dry study on an oceanic idyll

PEOPLES OF INDIA: ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS Edited by K S Singh Publisher: Oxford University Press/Anthropological Survey of India Price: Not …

Why are polar bears migrating to Russia from Alaska?

Sea ice, on which polar bears rely for hunting, have been on the decline

No one-size-fits-all way to combat urban heat island effect

Tropical and dry cities respond differently to heat mitigation strategies. This difference should be considered when trying to protect residents …

A village island in Kerala is about to vanish

10 of the 13 wards in the village are partly submerged and life gets difficult by the day

The Andamans up for grabs

Buffer for Jarawas

Private tourism to be banned

Glasgow showdown: Pacific Islands demand global leaders bring action, not excuses, to UN summit

Pacific island countries have refused to be the canary in the world’s coal mine at CoP26

Devastated by disease in the past, Samoa is on high alert after recent coronavirus scares

Memories of the deadly 2019 measles outbreak were still fresh; add to that social media comparisons to the infamous 1918 Spanish flu pandemic

Underwater threat

Unbridled avarice

Patent over AIDS drug-yielding tree

Lakshwadeep islands to be connected by Ham radio

I learned the language without references

Pramod Kumar researches a language spoken by only 273 people in the Andaman islands. A PhD candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, he …

Areas selected for smart city development are heat islands: study 

The study has found that agriculture and irrigation are two dominant drivers of urban heat islands in India

Timber-felling quota exceeded in Andamans

The environment ministry is in trouble in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, where it has violated timber extraction limits.

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Penguin paradise and geological freak: Why Macquarie Island deserves a bigger marine park

The island is a subantarctic environment crucial for seabirds marine mammals