Healing festering wounds

An action plan is ready to decontaminate UCILÔÇÖs plant site in Bhopal. It just needs to be implemented

World Environment Day 2020: Looking ahead of lockdown

The COVID-19 lockdown brought us clean air and a blue sky, but at a cost; What do we need to keep it going? Sunita Narain sets the agenda 

Developing world taps renewable energy at twice the rate of rich countries

China leads the global rank on clean energy; India is placed fourth

Methane time bomb ticks under melting Arctic ice

Global warming releasing large amounts of dangerous greenhouse gas from permafrost

Iran-India gas pipeline laid low by geopolitics

Mani Shankar Aiyar is known for the many controversies sparked by his provocative comments and controversial ideas. As Minister for Petroleum and …

Dow in the dumps?

Latest IPCC report reeks of northern agenda

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group Report III suggests historical emissions are a thing of the past; it endorses carbon …

30 years of Bhopal gas tragedy: a continuing disaster

An appraisal by Sunita Narain and Chandra Bhushan, exclusively extracted from the recently released book, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, After 30 Years

New fishing technique improves health safety of African fish processors

Improved design took five years and has been a hit with female workers, particularly in Côte d'Ivoire

Chile becomes first South American country to enforce carbon tax

At $5 per tonne of carbon emitted, tax law will target big power plants

Russia submits climate plan; commits to reducing emissions by 25-30% by 2030

Thirty-two developed nations have submitted their INDCs so far

From India Environment Portal

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Green tribunal gives clean chit to Sterlite plant

Expert panel finds emissions from Vedanta subsidiary's copper smelting plant in Tuticorin to be within limits; state's contention that the plant …

‘Government of MP has always tried to fudge data’

The Supreme Court, on May 3, asked the Bhopal Municipal Corporation to start supplying clean drinking water to those localities in the city that …

In Short

ONGCignores green rules

Oil company did not restore abandoned well sites in Tripura

Guilty, but bailed

Seven Union Carbide officials get two-year jail term for Bhopal gas leak that has killed 20,000

Connected events and difficult future

A tinge of green

Issues relating to the environment, though not on top of the agenda, did make their presence felt in the just-concluded assembly elections.

Remembering Kirk R Smith (1947-2020)

Kirk leaves us with the power of imagining change and hope 

Dahej blast: Industrial accidents will stop only if factories observe rules

Ten people had died in the blast at Yashasvi Rasayan Pvt Ltd in Dahej on June 3, 2020

Global CO2 levels breach 400 mark again

This time, the level stayed above 400 ppm for a month, leading researchers to call it ‘a milestone’ for the planet on its way to …

‘Countries’ carbon pledges not enough to keep temperature rise under 2°C’

Intentions announced by countries so far could lead to a 3-4°C rise in temperatures, worsening the effects of climate change, says economist …

Australia set for highest temperature rise by century end

Government in denial mode despite repeated warnings

World Bank alarm on growing garbage burden

First-of-its-kind report projects exponential increase in municipal solid waste; questions reliability of available data and waste disposal methods