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• Heat wave grips US West amid fear of a new, hotter normal. (June 17, 2021)
• Bamboo forest regeneration efforts planned in Chhattisgarh. (June 17, 2021)
• Monsoon update: Northeastern states report deficit rainfall. (June 17, 2021)
• Early floods in Bihar after heavy rainfall in catchment areas of Gandak in Nepal. (June 17, 2021)
• Royal Bengal tiger strays in Bihar, stokes panic among villagers. (June 17, 2021)
• Court ruling on Shell’s climate impact and votes against Exxon and Chevron add pressure, but it’s the market that will drive oil giants to change. (June 17, 2021)
• Ozone Pollution Has Increased in Antarctica – From Both Natural and Human Sources. (June 16, 2021)
• Another elephant electrocuted in Odisha, the second in 10 days. (June 16, 2021)
• Peatlands worldwide are drying out, threatening to release 860 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. (June 16, 2021)
• India’s expert forest panel calls for sustainable mining. (June 16, 2021)
• Understanding Uncertainties in Climate Change: Ocean Circulation Is Key to Accurate Predictions. (June 16, 2021)
• We have already stepped on the minefield: Scientist on reversing global warming. (June 16, 2021)
• On Thin Ice: Arctic Coastal Sea Ice Thinning Twice As Fast As Thought. (June 15, 2021)
• DTE Impact: New software to keep fishing vessels away from Gahiramatha. (June 15, 2021)
• May 2021 was the sixth-warmest May on record, says NOAA. (June 15, 2021)
• Ice shelves of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier may go earlier than expected. (June 15, 2021)
• China's trekking elephants wait for youngster to catch up. (June 15, 2021)
• National Geographic recognises ‘Southern Ocean’ as globe’s fifth ocean. (June 14, 2021)
• Croc kills again: Sixth fatal attack in a year near Bhitarkanika. (June 12, 2021)
• Sea surge on Kerala coast : Why experts are calling for nature - based solutions. (June 14, 2021)
• What is killing Chennai’s Olive Ridley turtles?. (June 14, 2021)
• Human-Driven Climate Change Only Half the Picture for Antarctic Krill. (June 14, 2021)
• California Biodiversity “Hotspots” Threatened – Provide Habitat for Rare and Endangered Species. (June 14, 2021)
• Ghana plants 5 million trees in a single day to combat deforestation. (June 12, 2021)
• Pine Island Glacier’s Ice Shelf Is Ripping Itself Apart – Speeding Up Key Antarctic Glacier. (June 12, 2021)
• Satellite Observations Show Marine Clouds Amplify Global Warming. (June 12, 2021)
• Uganda reopens rhino sanctuary to tourists. (June 11, 2021)
• The Uttarakhand Disaster Left More Than 200 People Dead or Missing – It Could Happen Again. (June 10, 2021)
• Tackling the Biodiversity and Climate Crises Together, and Their Combined Social Impacts. (June 10, 2021)
• Climate Protection: Deep Decarbonization by 2050 Is Currently Not Plausible. (June 10, 2021)
• Looking for love, white rhino 'Emma' lands in Japan. (June 10, 2021)
• Odisha forest department announces cash reward for rescuing gharials. (June 10, 2021)
• The Mediterranean is warming three times more than the oceans: Study. (June 10, 2021)
• India’s turtle researchers oppose development plans for Little Andaman, Great Nicobar islands. (June 10, 2021)
• Chief executives, investors write to world leaders: Need bold climate action. (June 10, 2021)
• Glacier melting in Hindu Kush: 2 billion people may face food, water shortage by 2100. (June 9, 2021)
• Biodiversity hotspots covering India and neighbouring countries lost 90% of original natural vegetation: Report. (June 8, 2021)
• New dinosaur species discovered in Australia, one of world's biggest. (June 8, 2021)
• Heavy sleepers: Elephants on epic trek take nap. (June 8, 2021)
• Endangered antelope rebounds in Kazakhstan, but threats loom. (June 8, 2021)
• Shivalik’s Tongia and Van Gujjar communities protect wildlife but their rights are ignored. (June 8, 2021)
• Injecting an Alkalinizing Agent Into the Ocean To Offset 10 Years’ Worth of Acidification of the Great Barrier Reef. (June 8, 2021)
• Kinnaur hydroelectric project: A setback for Himachal’s natural resources, culture. (June 7, 2021)
• NASA: 2021 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Extent Ranks Seventh-Lowest on Record. (June 7, 2021)
• Human Decision-Making in Climate Reconstructions Can Lead to Substantially Different Results. (June 7, 2021)
• Green and Economical: Underground Storage of Carbon Captured Directly From Air. (June 6, 2021)
• Central Vista area to get 1,753 new trees as transplant, revamp to raise green cover. (June 6, 2021)
• Assam gets sixth national park on world environment day. (June 5, 2021)
• Coastal areas in Kerala will witness increasing sea surge in coming years: Experts. (June 5, 2021)
• Black carbon in High Asia can go down 23% if Subcontinent cuts emissions: Report. (June 4, 2021)
• State of India’s Environment In Figures: Rural India worst hit by COVID-19 second wave. (June 4, 2021)
• Over 57k hectares of forest land diverted in Odisha, says new report. (June 4, 2021)
• Climate Science Surprise: Antarctica Wasn’t As Cold During the Last Ice Age As Previously Thought. (June 4, 2021)
• World’s Lakes Losing Oxygen Rapidly As Planet Warms – Biodiversity and Drinking Water Quality Threatened. (June 4, 2021)
• [Commentary] India holds great promise in this Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. (June 4, 2021)
• Two lakh trees and water security at stake in Buxwaha’s Bunder diamond mining project. (June 4, 2021)
• New Records of Singapore’s Sea-Level History Going Back 10,000 Years. (June 4, 2021)
• Arctic Sea Ice Thinning Up to Twice As Fast as Expected. (June 3, 2021)
• CryoSat Mission Reveals Massive Ice Loss From Glaciers in Alaska and Asia. (June 3, 2021)
• “Dead Zones” Formed Repeatedly in North Pacific During Warm Climates Over the Past 1.2 Million Years. (June 3, 2021)
• UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: UN Urges Intense Restoration of Nature to Address Climate and Biodiversity Crises. (June 3, 2021)
• Badlapur gas leak: Locals reported breathlessness, situation under control. (June 4, 2021)
• Could illegal fishing have caused death of 5-foot-long saltie in Bhitarkanika. (June 3, 2021)
• Odisha, Andamans most prepared to reach climate action SDG: Government . (June 3, 2021)
• Degraded land the size of China needs to be restored by 2030 to prevent biodiversity loss: UN Report. (June 3, 2021)
• Normal monsoons becoming rarer despite forecasts to the contrary. (June 2, 2021)
• Global warming caused over a third of heat-related deaths between 1991 and 2018: Study. (June 2, 2021)
• Elephants on tour in China guzzle crops and wreak havoc. (June 2, 2021)
• A new tiger reserve holds hope for revival of Vaigai river in Madurai. (June 2, 2021)
• Earth’s History Sends Climate Warning – Urgent Action Needed. (June 2, 2021)
• Almost 50,000 birds counted at Chilika lake on May 25. (June 2, 2021)
• Kerala’s high-speed rail project may turn into environmental disaster, flag experts. (June 2, 2021)
• Newly Discovered Atmospheric Circulation Enhances Heatwaves and Wildfires Around the Arctic. (June 1, 2021)
• Researchers Examine “Godzilla” – The Record-Shattering 2020 Trans-Atlantic Dust Storm. (June 1, 2021)
• Nitrogen pollution limits safe margin for other environmental issues, say scientists. (June 1, 2021)
• 17 Years of Gravity Observations Show How Earth’s Water Cycle Is Ramping Up As Climate Warms. (May 31, 2021)
• Nature to tackle environment challenges: Triple investments by 2030, says UN report. (May 31, 2021)
• [Commentary] Wildlife in Tillari valley at risk from land-use change. (May 31, 2021)
• Lakshadweep: ‘New laws calculated effort to alter habits of people evolved over generations’. (May 31, 2021)
• Tiny Magnetic Particles in Microscopic Fossils Record Ancient Climate Conditions. (May 30, 2021)
• Using the International Space Station to Study Earth’s Climate & Keep Our Planet Safe. (May 30, 2021)
• Satellites May Have Underestimated Global Warming in the Lower Atmosphere Over the Last 40 Years. (May 30, 2021)
• Cyclone Yaas: Where are the 50 million mangroves gone, asks Mamata? . (May 28, 2021)
• Months after forest fire, Cyclone Yaas threatens flooding in Similipal. (May 28, 2021)
• Van Gujjars: People of the forest or nowhere?. (May 28, 2021)
• With more forest fires and an ongoing pandemic, forest dwellers feel the heat this year . (May 28, 2021)
• Fossil Pollen Shows Earth’s Vegetation Is Changing Faster Today Than It Has Over the Last 18,000 Years. (May 27, 2021)
• UN calls for swift zero carbon recovery action at climate summit. (May 27, 2021)
• Odisha’s blackbucks double in 6 years, reveals census. (May 27, 2021)
• A day after Cyclone Yaas, signs of destruction in Odisha. (May 27, 2021)
• Sri Lanka braces for beach pollution as ship burns. (May 27, 2021)
• A forest in a city: Maintaining Chandigarh’s green cover in the face of urbanisation. (May 27, 2021)
• Cyclone Yaas is the 96th tropical cyclone to strike Odisha in 130 years. (May 26, 2021)
• Cyclone Yaas makes landfall: Houses blown away, families displaced in Odisha. (May 26, 2021)
• Cyclone Yaas weakens after landfall near Balasore. (May 26, 2021)
• Scientists Sound Alarm: Unprecedented Mercury Accumulation in Pacific Ocean Trenches. (May 26, 2021)
• Forests and Climate Change – “We Can’t Plant Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis”. (May 25, 2021)
• Cyclone Yaas may have caused jellyfish to wash up on Puri beach: Experts. (May 25, 2021)
• Curiously high levels of mercury found in rivers linked to Greenland Ice Sheet. (May 25, 2021)
• Cyclone Yaas: Odisha evacuates 400,000 fearing the worst since 1999. (May 25, 2021)
• New NASA Earth System Observatory Will Create a 3D, Holistic View of Earth – Help Address, Mitigate Climate Change. (May 25, 2021)
• Surprisingly High Levels of Toxic Mercury Discovered in Greenland Glacial Meltwaters. (May 24, 2021)
• No reported case of Covid-19 transmission from animals to humans: PETA. (May 24, 2021)
• Cyclone Yaas gathers speed, set for early landfall on May 26. (May 24, 2021)
• NGT upholds rights of pastoralists in Banni grasslands, wants encroachments removed. (May 24, 2021)
• Glaciologists Measure, Model Hard Glacier Beds – Develop “Slip Law” to Estimate Glacier Speeds. (May 23, 2021)
• International Biodiversity Day: It is about our relationship with nature. (May 21, 2021)
• Cyclone Yaas: Fishing vessels return to shore as Odisha ramps up preparation. (May 21, 2021)
• Cyclone Yaas may turn extremely severe by May 25. (May 21, 2021)
• Alarming Biodiversity Devastation: Human-Driven Decline Requires Millions of Years of Recovery. (May 21, 2021)
• Veteran environmentalist Sundarlal Bahuguna dies of COVID. (May 21, 2021)
• Smoke from cement factory leaves toddlers gasping for air in Howrah. (May 21, 2021)
• Cyclone Yaas: Bengal to double number of disaster shelters to avoid COVID-19 spread. (May 21, 2021)
• More protected: 82% countries raised cover for vulnerable areas in a decade. (May 20, 2021)
• [Interview] Bittu Sahgal: “Young people want to protect the environment, but don’t have their hands on the wheel”. (May 20, 2021)
• Cyclone Tauktae shows why north Indian Ocean is now whacky. (May 20, 2021)
• Want to visit Mars? Zebrafish may help. (May 20, 2021)
• How does the mining industry look at issues around “Just Transitions”?. (May 20, 2021)
• Arctic has warmed three times faster than Earth since 1971: Report. (May 20, 2021)
• Antarctica gives birth to world's largest iceberg. (May 20, 2021)
• COVID-19 effect: Public concerns about environment have risen. (May 19, 2021)
• Odisha braces for Cyclone Yaas amid COVID-19 crisis. (May 19, 2021)
• Tauktae: An Unusually Powerful Tropical Cyclone Strikes India. (May 18, 2021)
• Environmental Trade-Offs of Autonomous Vehicles: Convenience Will Likely Come at a Cost. (May 18, 2021)
• Clear Signs That Part of the Greenland Ice Sheet Is Close to a Tipping Point. (May 17, 2021)
• Climate change: Food production in Africa’s Sudano-Sahelian Zone under threat, finds study. (May 17, 2021)
• More than 70% snow leopard habitat unexplored: WWF report. (May 17, 2021)
• Tall waves lash west coast as Cyclone Tauktae dashes to make landfall in Gujarat. (May 17, 2021)
• New NASA Multi-Wavelength Data Sheds (Sun) Light on Climate Models. (May 17, 2021)
• Scientists Call for Global Action Plan: Save Our Oceans to Protect Human Health. (May 17, 2021)
• Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction Took Ten Times Longer on Land Than in the Water. (May 16, 2021)
• Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat Could Trigger Chain Reaction – Possibly Came Close to Collapse in the Past. (May 15, 2021)
• One-Third of Global Food Production Threatened by Climate Change. (May 14, 2021)
• Cyclone Tauktae can be among the ‘strongest’ on India’s west coast in 2 decades. (May 14, 2021)
• Tracking Carbon From the Ocean Surface to the Dark “Twilight Zone”. (May 12, 2021)
• ‘Climate change could be behind Uttarakhand cloudbursts’. (May 12, 2021)
• Coal plant pollution can cause 8,300 deaths in India. (May 12, 2021)
• Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise From Antarctic Melting Possible if Paris Climate Agreement Isn’t Met. (May 11, 2021)
• Wolf hunting banned in Slovakia. (May 11, 2021)
• Climate Change Modeling of “Degrowth” Scenarios – Reduction in GDP, Energy and Material Use. (May 11, 2021)
• Kenyan tea is under threat due to climate change: Report. (May 10, 2021)
• Microplastics Found in Europe’s Largest Ice Cap – In a Remote and Pristine Area of Vatnajökull Glacier. (May 9, 2021)
• Using Gene Reserves to Protect Rare Species From Climate Change. (May 9, 2021)
• New Research Reveals Uncertainty in How Much Carbon the Ocean Absorbs Over Time – Climate Projections Could Be Off. (May 8, 2021)
• Reduce human-caused methane emissions by 45% to avoid worst of climate change: UN. (May 7, 2021)
• NASA Sees Tides Under the Ocean’s Surface [Video]. (May 7, 2021)
• Dwindling Water Sources in Mexico: Nearly 85 Percent of the Country Is Experiencing Drought. (May 6, 2021)
• Oceanographers Find “Heat Bombs” Destroying Arctic Sea Ice. (May 6, 2021)
• Hydropower Can Help States Afford to Meet Net-Zero Emissions Targets by 2050. (May 6, 2021)
• Climate Scientists Show Flooding May Triple in the Mountains of Asia Due to Global Warming. (May 6, 2021)
• Bihar warns of Lumpy Skin Disease among cattle. (May 6, 2021)
• Global Warming Could Lead to the Melting of More Than a Third of Antarctic Ice Shelves, Huge Rise in Sea Levels. (May 5, 2021)
• Cloudbursts in Uttarakhand again, flooding too. (May 5, 2021)
• Long-term NO2 exposure affects lung function: Study. (May 4, 2021)
• Plastic Pollution in the Deep Sea: A Geological Perspective on a Global Problem. (May 4, 2021)
• Yamatosaurus: New Duckbilled Dinosaur Discovered in Japan. (May 3, 2021)
• Inactive Oil Wells May Be a Big Source of Methane Emissions. (May 2, 2021)
• Environmental Scientists Want to Extract Carbon-Neutral “Biofuel” From Lakes. (May 2, 2021)
• Scientists Map Rivers of Pollution in the Sky. (May 1, 2021)
• Harvard Researchers Say Antarctic Ice-Sheet Melting to Lift Sea Level 30% Higher Than Thought. (Apr 30, 2021)
• Delhi air in trouble again: Should farm fires be in focus. (April 30, 2021)
• Not two, only one species of hoolock gibbon in India: study. (Apr 30, 2021)
• Olive Ridley turtles stay away from Rushikulya in Odisha this year. (Apr 30, 2021)
• Cave Deposits Reveal Permafrost Thawed 400,000 Years Ago, When Temperatures Were Not Much Higher Than Today. (Apr 30, 2021)
• Global Glacier Retreat Has Accelerated: Analysis of 220,000 Glaciers Shows Rapid Melting That Has Scientists Worried. (Apr 29, 2021)
• Climate Change Concerns Rise As Cave Deposits Show Surprising Shift in Permafrost Over the Last 400,000 Years. (Apr 28, 2021)
• Climate Change Concerns Rise As Cave Deposits Show Surprising Shift in Permafrost Over the Last 400,000 Years. (Apr 28, 2021)
• DTE Impact: Kendrapara SP appears before Orissa High Court in forest guard assault case. (Apr 28, 2021)
• COVID-19 has aggravated challenges to manage forests: UN Report. (Apr 28, 2021)
• This supermoon has a twist – expect flooding, but a lunar cycle is masking effects of sea level rise. (Apr 28, 2021)
• Mapping future hotspots of carbon dioxide emissions from mangrove loss. (Apr 28, 2021)
• Climate risk drives push to save Australia's weird, elusive platypuses. (Apr 27, 2021)
• Fires rage on in Mizoram’s Lawngtlai; under control elsewhere. (Apr 27, 2021)
• Leopard skin, 2 elephant tusks seized by police in Odisha’s Nayagarh. (Apr 26, 2021)
• Give indigenous people their rights to tackle climate change: Archana Soreng. (Apr 26, 2021)
• Forest fire in two districts of Mizoram; IAF helicopters to help put it down. (Apr 25, 2021)
• Sea Ice Highs and Lows 2020–21: Downward Trends in Polar Ice Continue. (Apr 25, 2021)
• Mapping the Path to Rewilding: The Importance of Landscape in Restoring Biodiversity. (Apr 25, 2021)
• Climate colloquy: All about net zero. (Apr 24, 2021)
• Climate Change Has Shifted the Axis of the Earth. (Apr 24, 2021)
• How Bioenergy With Carbon Capture and Storage Could Help Stabilize the Climate Without Breaking the Bank. (Apr 24, 2021)
• Saving the Asiatic black bear from illegal wildlife trade needs nuanced conservation. (Apr 23, 2021)
• Ocean Temperature Reconstructed Over the Last 700,000 Years Using Air Bubbles Trapped in Glacier Ice. (Apr 23, 2021)
• Researchers Discover Why Lightning Branches and Flickers. (Apr 23, 2021)
• Will May witness severe cyclones?. (Apr 23, 2021)
• Yale Researchers Create Global Map of Undiscovered Life. (Apr 22, 2021)
• Climate “Tipping Points” Need Not Be the End of the World – Disastrous Consequences Could Be Averted. (Apr 21, 2021)
• Climate change is real & world needs real leadership to fight it. (Apr 21, 2021)
• Some 200 wild animals killed in annual tribal hunting season in Bengal last month. (Apr 21, 2021)
• ‘Rogue elephant’ kills four in Odisha. (Apr 21, 2021)
• NASA-Built Carbon Mapper Instrument Will Help to Spot Greenhouse Gas Super-Emitters. (Apr 21, 2021)
• High-Tech Climate Intervention: A Sun Reflector to Cool Earth?. (Apr 20, 2021)
• The world was in high fever in 2020. (Apr 20, 2021)
• Global Warming: Alpine Plants Are Losing Their White “Protective Coat”. (Apr 20, 2021)
• Can Extreme Melt Destabilize Ice Sheets? A Continental-Scale Picture. (Apr 20, 2021)
• COVID-19 not enough to scare smugglers off pangolins. (Apr 19, 2021)
• MoEF&CC chooses minerals over biodiversity, clears rail track in Western Ghats despite red flags. (Apr 19, 2021)
• Forest fires in India: Alerts since April 1 nearly double that of 2020. (Apr 19, 2021)
• Species Come and Go – Their Ecosystems Persist Over Millions of Years. (Apr 18, 2021)
• US, China agree to cooperate on climate crisis with urgency. (Apr 18, 2021)
• Climate Change Has Cut Global Farming Productivity 21% Since the 1960s. (Apr 17, 2021)
• Sulphur dioxide from Caribbean volcano reaches India, WMO confirms. (Apr 17, 2021)
• Meltwater Pulse 1A: Melting Ice Sheets Caused Sea Levels to Rise Up to 18 Meters. (Apr 16, 2021)
• Indian government makes another attempt to amend the Indian Forest Act 1927. (Apr 16, 2021)
• India to have ‘normal’ monsoon in 2021, predicts IMD. (Apr 16, 2021)
• Delhi High Court orders Centre to frame protection rules for exotic animals not included in WPA. (Apr 16, 2021)
• Over 500 died in human-elephant conflict in Odisha in last 5 years. (Apr 16, 2021)
• NGT panel flags environmental violations by ONGC, GAIL in Krishna-Godavari basin. (Apr 16, 2021)
• Mountain Growth Influences Greenhouse Effect – Weathering of Rocks Can Bind or Release Carbon Dioxide. (Apr 15, 2021)
• Climate change may make Indian monsoons more volatile, wet years ahead: Study. (Apr 15, 2021)
• Size Isn’t Everything: Megafauna Extinction Mystery. (Apr 15, 2021)
• Google Earth adds time lapse video to depict climate change. (Apr 15, 2021)
• How to face a rising sea? Maldives bets on artificial islands. (April 15, 2021)
• Dansgaard-Oeschger Events: Abrupt Ice Age Climate Changes Behaved Like Cascading Dominoes. (Apr 15, 2021)
• Climate Change Is Making Indian Monsoon Seasons More Chaotic – Potentially Grave Consequences for Agriculture and Economy. (Apr 14, 2021)
• Catastrophic Wildfires on the Fish Lake Plateau Reduced by Indigenous “Cultural Burning”. (April 14, 2021)
• China's environmental data: The world's biggest polluter in numbers. (April 14, 2021)
• North East India might witness another dry monsoon: Skymet Weather. (Apr 14, 2021)
• What a Glacial River Reveals About the Greenland Ice Sheet and Global Sea Level Rise. (Apr 13, 2021)
• Cross-breeding, herd management key strategy to maximise India’s milk production: Study. (April 13, 2021)
• Odisha forest dept claims dolphin population doubled in a year. (Apr 12, 2021)
• Thick Sea-Ice Warms Greenland Fjords. (Apr 12, 2021)
• Current Climate Model Simulations Significantly Overestimate Future Sea-Level Rise. (April 11, 2021)
• Third of Antarctic ice shelf area at collapse risk due to global warming. (Apr 9, 2021)
• [Commentary] Landslides in the concrete jungle of Darjeeling. (Apr 9, 2021)
• New Research Shows How Reflecting Sunlight Could Cool the Earth’s Ecosystem. (Apr 9, 2021)
• Tiger relocation project fails: Tigress in Odisha’s Satkosia reserve alone. (Apr 9, 2021)
• What happened when the oceans went quiet during the pandemic? Scientists set to find out. (Apr 9, 2021)
• Earth’s Permanent Oxygen Rise Occurred 100 Million Years Later Than Thought. (Apr 8, 2021)
• ‘Climate change studies don’t show complete picture of impact on mammals’. (Apr 8, 2021)
• Odisha saw spike in king cobra sightings in human habitations since October 2019. (Apr 8, 2021)
• How climate change pushed women to acute distress in Sundarbans. (Apr 8, 2021)
• Climate experts hail forthcoming US climate summit with caution and riders. (Apr 7, 2021)
• Kochi’s disappearing mangroves lock away significant carbon. (Apr 7, 2021)
• Droughts Lasted Longer and Rainfall Was More Erratic Over the Last 50 Years in Most of the West. (Apr 6, 2021)
• Leopard rescued from heart of Jammu city after it mauls three. (Apr 6, 2021)
• Climate change is real: Six months on, Uttarakhand forests still ablaze. (Apr 6, 2021)
• Don’t venture out of homes, use masks if important: Nepal cautions against air pollution. (Apr 6, 2021)
• Climate Change: Western Water Resources Threatened by Increased Winter Snowmelt. (Apr 5, 2021)
• Lightning Strikes Will More Than Double in Arctic As Climate Warms, Driving Increased Wildfires and Warming. (Apr 5, 2021)
• At least 22 leopards poached in Odisha in a year, say forest officials. (Apr 5, 2021)
• Debate: Should forest guards in India be armed with firearms?. (Apr 3, 2021)
• Twice As Much Carbon Flowing From Land to Ocean Than Previously Thought – 900–1,900 Million Tons per Year. (Apr 2, 2021)
• Arctic winter sea ice in 2021 joint seventh-lowest on record, finds NASA. (April 2, 2021)
• Threatened sangai deer’s habitat likely to shrink due to climate change. (April 2, 2021)
• The hits and misses of a mine reclamation project in Jharkhand. (April 1, 2021)
• Satellite Data Shows Lakes on Greenland Ice Sheet Can Drain Huge Amounts of Water, Even in Winter. (April 1, 2021)
• Western U.S. Drought Conditions Continue in Spring 2021 – And It’s Expected to Worsen. (April 1, 2021)
• Climate Change Has Cut Global Agricultural Productivity by 21% Since 1961. (April 1, 2021)
• Intensity of tropical cyclones to increase next century due to climate change: Study. (April 1, 2021)
• Nepal schools shut: Forest fires, westerly winds from India may have contributed to air pollution. (April 1, 2021)
• Sharp increase in destruction of virgin forest in 2020. (March 31, 2021)
• Study finds some UN SDGs could damage forests, some others may be beneficial. (March 31, 2021)
• Not yet April, but mercury at 44.6 in Odisha’s Baripada. (March 31, 2021)
• Japan's famous cherry blossoms bloom early amid warming. (March 30, 2021)
• Nepal's schools close as air pollution hits alarming levels. (March 30, 2021)
• How this landmark NGT order will shape the future of India's pollution control bodies. (March 30, 2021)
• Odisha government proposes state’s second biosphere reserve at Mahendragiri. (March 30, 2021)
• Forests under indigenous people more protected, says new report. (March 30, 2021)
• India set to exceed voluntary emissions-cut target. (March 29, 2021)
• NISAR Spacecraft: Major New Earth Satellite to Track Disasters, Effects of Climate Change. (March 28, 2021)
• Science Made Simple: What Is Earth’s Energy Budget?. (March 28, 2021)
• Beijing enveloped in hazardous sandstorm, second time in two weeks. (March 28, 2021)
• Survey paints dry picture of govt’s waterbodies in Ganga basin. (March 28, 2021)
• Zealandia Switch: The Missing Link in Understanding Ice Age Climates. (March 27, 2021)
• Direct Observations by NASA Confirm that Humans are Throwing Earth’s Energy Budget off Balance. (March 27, 2021)
• 20th Century Sea-Level Rise Was Fastest in 2,000 Years Along Much of U.S. East Coast. (March 27, 2021)
• Floating Solar Farms Could Help Protect Lakes and Reservoirs From Harmful Effects of Climate Change. (March 27, 2021)
• Deadly Heat Waves Will Soon Be Common in South Asia, Even at 1.5 Degrees of Global Warming. (March 26, 2021)
• Bihar staring at water crisis in summer months with groundwater levels declining. (March 26, 2021)
• Poaching, habitat loss push Africa’s elephants to the brink. (March 26, 2021)
• Outbreak of infectious diseases linked to change in forest cover, finds study. (March 25, 2021)
• How understanding genes can help scientists adapt trees to climate change. (March 25, 2021)
• Carbon Capture & Storage: Stanford and Carnegie Mellon Researchers Reveal Cost of Key Climate Solution. (March 25, 2021)
• Changes in Ocean Chemistry Reveal How Sea Level Affects the Global Carbon Cycle. (March 25, 2021)
• African elephants at growing risk of extinction: Red List. (March 25, 2021)
• Efforts to force tougher climate rules rejected by EU court. (March 25, 2021)
• South Asia to face more heatwaves due to climate change. (March 25, 2021)
• Outbreak of infectious diseases linked to change in forest cover, finds study. (March 25, 2021)
• How understanding genes can help scientists adapt trees to climate change. (March 25, 2021)
• Assam Elections 2021: Are the poll promises made to protect Assam's environment viable?. (March 25, 2021)
• Draft amendment to Forest Conservation Act may dilute protection to forests. (March 25, 2021)
• Tigress Sundari, brought to Odisha from Madhya Pradesh in 2018, heads back home. (March 24, 2021)
• Odisha forest officials use recorded tiger growls to keep elephants away from villages. (March 24, 2021)
• Just 1º of Global Warming Causes a ~50% Increase in Population Displacement Risk. (March 24, 2021)
• Social Network Inspired Algorithms Reveal Lifecycle of Auroral Substorms, a Key Element of Space Weather. (March 23, 2021)
• Storm season begins in India but not as strong as predicted. (March 23, 2021)
• Freezing Fragmentation – Explosive Origins of “Secondary” Ice and Snow. (March 22, 2021)
• Gond community to drop ancient cremation ritual to save trees. (March 22, 2021)
• Whale sightings aid quest to protect wildlife in Indian Ocean oasis. (March 22, 2021)
• NOAA Climate Report Shows Earth Had Its Coolest February on Record Since 2014. (March 22, 2021)
• World water day: How a village in Maharastra turned a dying lake into a birding paradise. (March 22, 2021)
• Every person may have to live on less water as per capita reservoir capacity decreases: UN. (March 22, 2021)
• Water’s value cannot be pegged to its price alone: UN report. (March 22, 2021)
• Recharge plan: Tupewadi’s tryst with MGNREGA a boost to water table. (March 21, 2021)
• How MGNREGA water conservation project turned a Rajasthan district into an Oasis. (March 20, 2021)
• Melting Glaciers Contribute to Alaska Earthquakes, Cause Land to Rise at 1.5 Inches per Year. (March 20, 2021)
• Climate Regions of Earth Redefined by the Distribution of Vertebrate Animals. (March 20, 2021)
• Melting Glaciers Could Enhance Decomposition, Speeding Up Carbon Emissions Into the Atmosphere. (March 19, 2021)
• Saline solution: How MGNREGA helped Nagapattinam recover from the 2004 tsunami. (March 19, 2021)
• Every fifth child faces water scarcity globally: Unicef report. (March 19, 2021)
• Conserving nature leads to higher net economic value: Study. (March 19, 2021)
• The chase and the change: Let’s look back at 15 years of MGNREGA this World Water Day. (March 18, 2021)
• Ancient DNA Reveals Arctic Was Once Lush and Green, Could Be Again. (March 18, 2021)
• New Analysis Shows Potential for “Solar Canals” in California – Advancing Both Renewable Energy and Water Conservation. (March 18, 2021)
• From poaching to avocados, Kenya's elephants face new threat. (March 18, 2021)
• Climate crisis: Oceans may emit more ozone-depleting gases. (March 18, 2021)
• Gadkari announces vehicle scrappage policy. (March 18, 2021)
• Disappearing Forests and Wetlands in Belize Unmasked by NASA Satellite. (March 17, 2021)
• Flamingos, pelicans yet to leave Chilika, despite early onset of summer. (March 17, 2021)
• Gahiramatha sanctuary forest guards allege assault by fishermen. (March 17, 2021)
• Have warmer Februaries and early flowering come to stay in Kashmir?. (March 17, 2021)
• Atmospheric CO2 levels may rise 50% higher than pre-industrial levels: Recent estimates. (March 17, 2021)
• DTE Impact: Install transponders in all fishing vehicles to save Olive Ridleys in Odisha, says HC. (March 16, 2021)
• New method for efficient removal of heavy metals from water. (March 16, 2021)
• Air Pollution Over China Returning to Pre-COVID Levels. (March 16, 2021)
• To what extent does climate change affect food insecurity? What we found in Lesotho. (March 16, 2021)
• DTE Impact: Orissa HC panel on Olive Ridleys stress on biodiversity, community welfare. (March 16, 2021)
• Tigress found dead in Pilibhit reserve. (March 15, 2021)
• Pregnant dolphin found dead in UP. (March 15, 2021)
• MIT Researchers Predict the Oceans Will Start Emitting Ozone-Depleting CFCs. (March 15, 2021)
• Scientists Stunned to Discover Plants Beneath Mile-Deep Greenland Ice – And Why This Is So Troubling. (March 15, 2021)
• Air quality improved in parts of Africa due to dip in fires. (March 15, 2021)
• Communities or forest department? Similipal fires rake up debate on ownership of National Park. (March 15, 2021)
• Glaciers Accelerate Into the Ocean in the Getz Region of West Antarctica, Contributing to Rising Global Sea Levels. (March 15, 2021)
• Air quality improved in parts of Africa due to dip in fires. (March 15, 2021)
• Communities or forest department? Similipal fires rake up debate on ownership of National Park. (March 15, 2021)
• Torrential Downpours and Destructive Flash Floods Swamp Hawaii. (March 13, 2021)
• Ten Years After the Tsunami: One of the Hardest Hit Coastal Cities in Japan Is Still Working to Recover. (March 12, 2021)
• Princeton Study: New Climate Models With High Climate Sensitivity Are Implausible. (March 11, 2021)
• Hawaii's rains, floods cited as examples of climate change. (March 11, 2021)
• Delhi and Haryana’s Aravallis support rich biodiversity and need protection. (March 11, 2021)
• Mass-nesting of turtles begins at Odisha’s Gahirmatha. (March 11, 2021)
• Similipal fire: Lives and livelihoods of Mankidia tribals in distress. (March 11, 2021)
• Can forest clearance grantees have their names added in record of rights, MoEF&CC asks states. (March 11, 2021)
• Rain in parts of burning Similipal forest brings temporary relief. (March 11, 2021)
• Why are Ennore residents protesting against Adani’s Kattupalli Port expansion project?. (March 11, 2021)
• Similipal forest fires put Odisha’s Lodha tribe in jeopardy. (March 10, 2021)
• A decade on, only 15% of Fukushima core area decontaminated: Greenpeace. (March 10, 2021)
• Planet greening negated global warming, show NASA maps. (March 10, 2021)
• Summers may last 6 months, winters only 2: Recent study. (March 10, 2021)
• Odisha has most contaminated sites in India: CPCB data. (March 10, 2021)
• Summers May Last Nearly Half the Year in the Northern Hemisphere by 2100. (March 9, 2021)
• Similipal fires enter core areas, firefighters struggle in inaccessible forests. (March 9, 2021)
• Recently planted eucalyptus trees may have stoked Similipal fires, say experts. (March 9, 2021)
• Similipal Tiger Reserve needs to be saved from forest fires. Here’s how much it is worth. (March 9, 2021)
• Women’s day: Meet Susmita Lenka who is on a mission to save Odisha’s pangolins. (March 8, 2021)
• DTE impact: Orissa High Court panel visits Gahirmatha to study Olive Ridley conservation. (March 8, 2021)
• Great Nicobar’s protected areas to get near-zero eco-sensitive zones for “holistic development”. (March 8, 2021)
• International Research Team Begins Uncovering Mystery Lurking Beneath the Arctic Ocean. (March 7, 2021)
• Fishers in Odisha rescue second whale shark in a week. (March 5, 2021)
• 40% fire incidents not responded to by officials, Odisha govt admits. (March 5, 2021)
• Genomics offer clues to how forest trees responded to the last Ice Age. (March 5, 2021)
• Over 1,700 trees to be axed for widening NH-59 in Odisha. (March 5, 2021)
• Nine great apes in San Diego become first non-human primates vaccinated for Covid-19. (March 5, 2021)
• Similipal fire serves as lesson on human activity within protected areas, say experts. (March 4, 2021)
• Forest officer suspended in Odisha’s Sambalpur over death of 6 elephants. (March 3, 2021)
• World Wildlife Day: WWF urges stakeholders to save Europe’s last old-growth forests. (March 3, 2021)
• World Wildlife Day: First-ever survey on fishing cats of the Chilika starts. (March 3, 2021)
• Pollution less severe this winter in Delhi; smog episodes fewer, shorter: CSE. (March 3, 2021)
• Warmer winters in India: La Nina events may be getting hotter than El Nino, say experts. (March 3, 2021)
• Rare bee found after 100 years, but under pressure to survive: Study. (March 3, 2021)
• Odisha tops forest fire counts in the country for a week. (March 2, 2021)
• Paris Agreement goals: UN urges countries to update emission targets. (March 1, 2021)
• Odisha starts evicting illegal prawn gherries in Chilika. (March 1, 2021)
• Hottest in India: Angul boils at 40°C in February. (March 1, 2021)
• DTE impact: Orissa High Court forms panel to study Olive Ridley conservation after 800 die. (March 1, 2021)
• Land use changes are driving Himalayan forest bird loss. (March 1, 2021)
• Ethiopia’s Forest in the Clouds: Unusual Plants and Wildlife Live in the Harenna Forest. (Feb 28, 2021)
• Migratory birds leave Chilika early as summer sets in. (Feb 26, 2021)
• Whale shark caught in fishing net in Odisha, released into Bay of Bengal. (Feb 26, 2021)
• Chamoli disaster: Why proposed glaciology centre in Uttarakhand was shelved. (Feb 25, 2021)
• Wild elephant kills 2 in Bihar. (Feb 25, 2021)
• Who to blame for haemorrhagic septicemia in elephants? Odisha suspends a livestock inspector. (Feb 25, 2021)
• State of India’s environment: Quality of air, water, land worsened in India’s industrial clusters. (Feb 25, 2021)
• Eight of 10 most polluted cities this winter from UP: CSE. (Feb 24, 2021)
• Beasts that once roamed the Indian subcontinent could hold clues to evolution and extinction. (Feb 24, 2021)
• Jammu’s Chipko moment: Green activists protest plan to chop 38,000 trees in Raika. (Feb 24, 2021)
• DTE impact: Orissa High Court notices to officials on death of Olive Ridley turtles. (Feb 23, 2021)
• Mango trees are flowering well this season; why then are farmers worried?. (Feb 23, 2021)
• Dozens of whales strand at notorious New Zealand bay. (Feb 22, 2021)
• Grassland burning, clearing imperils birds of Brahmaputra’s river islands. (Feb 22, 2021)
• Texas deep freeze: Satellite images how the state plunged into darkness in days. (Feb 22, 2021)
• Ocean Warming Predicted to Amplify Tropical Rainfall Extremes. (Feb 22, 2021)
• Time to reset our relationship with nature: UN ahead of 5th Environment Assembly. (Feb 21, 2021)
• Monster Saharan Dust Plume Heading for Europe. (Feb 19, 2021)
• Earth’s magnetic field broke down 42,000 years ago and caused massive sudden climate change. (Feb 19, 2021)
• Accidental discovery of life deep beneath Antarctica’s ice shelves baffles scientists. (Feb 19, 2021)
• Tigress that killed 3 in Bihar dies. (Feb 19, 2021)
• Chamoli disaster: What lesson can Himachal learn. (Feb 18, 2021)
• Bad air killed 1.2 lakh across 6 Indian cities, cost the $17.7bn: Study. (Feb 18, 2021)
• ‘Cleaner fuel the way ahead’: NGT limits brick kiln operations in Delhi-NCR. (Feb 17, 2021)
• Climate Change – Not Overhunting by Humans – Likely Drove the Extinction of North America’s Largest Animals. (Feb 16, 2021)
• Palaeontologist discovers ancient, enormous Caelocanth species by accident. (Feb 16, 2021)
• Six elephants die of haemorrhagic septicaemia in a fortnight in Odisha’s Karlapat Sanctuary. (Feb 15, 2021)
• Bihar forest dept officials on toes after tigress kills 3. (Feb 15, 2021)
• Massive coal use in Mumbai’s industrial clusters worsening city’s air quality: CSE study. (Feb 15, 2021)
• NASA Satellites Improve the Accuracy of Forests’ Impacts on the Global Carbon Budget. (Feb 13, 2021)
• NASA’s OMG: Warming Seas Are Accelerating Greenland’s Glacier Retreat. (Feb 12, 2021)
• India lost crops on 18 million hectares to extreme floods from 2017-2019: Govt. (Feb 11, 2021)
• Elephant shot, tusks hacked off in Odisha’s Dhenkanal forest division. (Feb 11, 2021)
• Monitoring rainfall changes in world’s wettest place. (Feb 11, 2021)
• How Rocks Rusted on Earth and Turned Red – Important Phenomenon Could Help Assess Future Climate Change. (Feb 10, 2021)
• Rain check: What caused south Indian deluge in early January?. (Feb 10, 2021)
• Minister names deceased ornithologist as member of National Board for Wildlife . (Feb 10, 2021)
• 12 million in UK face health risks due to climate change: Study. (Feb 10, 2021)
• January 2021 ninth-warmest month for US on record: NOAA. (Feb 10, 2021)
• Better Understanding Aerosols and the Reasons Behind Arctic Amplified Warming. (Feb 8, 2021)
• Biochemical Clues Reveal How Some Corals Resist Bleaching From Climate Change That Is Killing Coral Reefs. (Feb 8, 2021)
• As told to Parliament (February 8, 2021): Indo-Gangetic plains have high air pollution levels. (Feb 8, 2021)
• Deadline extension for coal power plants will harm air pollution fight: CSE. (Feb 8, 2021)
• Two forest officials suspended for deaths of elephants in train accident. (Feb 8, 2021)
• Villagers allege illegal tree felling in Melghat; forest dept denies claims. (Feb 8, 2021)
• Hybrid-Electric Plane Concept May Reduce Aviation’s Air Pollution Problem. (Feb 7, 2021)
• Bihar starts tagging migratory birds for conservation. (Feb 5, 2021)
• Goods train driver booked after two female elephants mowed down in Odisha. (Feb 5, 2021)
• What’s the value of a tree? Age multiplied by ₹74.5k: SC panel. (Feb 4, 2021)
• At least 800 Olive Ridleys dead in Odisha since January. (Feb 4, 2021)
• New NASA model to help assess change in carbon concentrations from forests. (Feb 4, 2021)
• COVID-19 Lockdowns Caused Cleaner Air – And Warmed the Planet. (Feb 3, 2021)
• Budget 2021-22: How sustainable is push for nylon?. (Feb 3, 2021)
• New species of snake eel found in Bay of Bengal by researchers. (Feb 3, 2021)
• Air pollution a problem in south India as well: CSE analysis. (Feb 2, 2021)
• Recent study on kraits shows great lacunae on snake venom research in India. (Feb 2, 2021)
• Giant Magnetofossils: Mysterious Magnetic Fossils Offer Past Climate Clues. (Feb 1, 2021)
• Record Shows Ancient Temperature Variations Coinciding With Shifts in the Planet’s Biodiversity. (Feb 1, 2021)
• Union Budget 2021-22: Finance Minister launches Rs 4,000 crore deep ocean mission. (Feb 1, 2021)
• Four Steps for Earth: A Holistic Approach to Transform Humanity’s Relationship With Nature and Save the Planet. (Jan 31, 2021)
• MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium: Influential Industry Leaders Convened in the Fight Against Climate Change. (January 31, 2021)
• Thinning Surface Layer of Ocean Leaves Waters More Susceptible to Extreme Warming Events. (Jan 30, 2021)
• Our Planet Is Losing Ice at Record Rate – In Line With the Worst-Case Climate Warming Scenarios. (Jan 29, 2021)
• NOAA Scientists: 2020 Was Earth’s 2nd-Hottest Year on Record, Just Behind 2016. (Jan 29, 2021)
• Antarctic iceberg, once Earth’s biggest, suffers major split. (Jan 29, 2021)
• Climate change is real & an emergency: 64% people voted so. (Jan 28, 2021)
• RTI reveals MoEF&CC cleared 3 highway proposals disregarding WII’s views. (Jan 28, 2021)
• John Kerry aims to talk US back into a lead role in climate fight. (Jan 27, 2021)
• Two-thirds of world see 'climate emergency': UN survey. (Jan 27, 2021)
• Climate Change Trends Revealed by World’s Largest Lakes. (Jan 26, 2021)
• Over 214,000 trees to make way for Ujh hydropower project in J&K. (Jan 26, 2021)
• Five African countries among top 10 affected by extreme weather in 2019: Germanwatch. (Jan 25, 2021)
• Bihar forest department recovers 155 skinned migratory birds from poacher. (Jan 25, 2021)
• 480,000 killed by extreme weather this century: Analysis. (Jan 25, 2021)
• About 43 million hectares of forest lost in 14 years. (Jan 25, 2021)
• Global Eco Watch: Leopard killed, eaten in Idukki as revenge for sheep-killing. (Jan 24, 2021)
• Beijing issues alert for heavy air pollution. (Jan 24, 2021)
• Solving a Long-Debated Scientific Controversy: Climate and Carbon Cycle Trends of the Past 50 Million Years Reconciled. (Jan 22, 2021)
• Two held after tusker dies due to burn injuries near Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. (Jan 22, 2021)
• India counters China on red pandas; DNA finds Himalayan and Chinese sub-species exist here. (Jan 21, 2021)
• Rich nations 'hugely exaggerate' climate finance: Study. (Jan 21, 2021)
• Did stratospheric warming lead to excessive rainfall in Tamil Nadu?. (Jan 20, 2021)
• Anthropogenic emissions cause distinct regional impacts on extreme fire weather: Study. (Jan 20, 2021)
• Amid pollution threat, ASI to set up weather stations with Isro at key sites. (Jan 20, 2021)
• Centuries Old Climate Records Reconstructed From a 600-Year-Old Marine Sponge. (Jan 19, 2021)
• Good monsoon pushes up Bihar groundwater level. (Jan 19, 2021)
• Taxonomical tumult: Confusion about animal names hindering fight against wildlife crime. (Jan 19, 2021)
• Diet to save: Our food system is fuelling climate change; are we ready to switch to a new diet?. (Jan 19, 2021)
• Mahua trees found in Puducherry’s French Quarter during unique tree survey. (Jan 18, 2021)
• Inside ad hoc forests. (Jan 18, 2021)
• Global Eco Watch: Will Britain fall, ask folklorists after raven disappears from the Tower of London. (Jan 17, 2021)
• Climate Crisis Calls for Direct Air Capture: Wartime-Level Funding for a Fleet of CO2 Scrubbers. (Jan 17, 2021)
• Climate change adaptation: Cost to at least quadruple for developing countries in 3 decades. (Jan 15, 2021)
• India collected just 3% e-waste generated in 2018, 10% in 2019: CPCB report. (Jan 15, 2021)
• Ancient Oceans Were Surprisingly Resilient to Climate Change – But Things Are Different Today. (Jan 15, 2021)
• Alarming New Climate Research: Earth to Reach Critical Temperature Tipping Point in 20–30 Years. (Jan 14, 2021)
• Scientists Discover the Secret of Galápagos’ Rich Ecosystem and Unique Wildlife Habitats. (Jan 14, 2021)
• Synchronised rise of ‘bad air’ in cities of Indo-Gangetic Plain in 2020: CSE analysis. (Jan 14, 2021)
• Upper oceans hottest in 2020 despite lower emissions due to COVID-19 lockdowns. (Jan 14, 2021)
• What can a bucket of water tell us about Arctic marine life? A lot, says a new study. (Jan 13, 2021)
• Endangered Indian rhinoceros baby is born in zoo in Poland. (Jan 13, 2021)
• Upper Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High in 2020 – Poses “A Severe Risk to Human and Natural Systems”. (Jan 13, 2021)
• Marine turtles tagged in Odisha after nearly two decades. (Jan 13, 2021)
• Warm winter to severely hit rabi production in Bihar: Experts. (Jan 12, 2021)
• Climate change in North East: Arunachal’s Seijosa shows connect between shifting patterns, declining biodiversity. (January 12, 2021)
• ‘Climate crisis a universal reality’: Heaviest snowfall since 2005 halts life in J&K. (Jan 12, 2021)
• Eight Western Lowland Gorillas at US safari park down with COVID-19. (Jan 12, 2021)
• No fire spotted in Nagaland's Dzukou range; operations to be scaled down: DFO. (Jan 10, 2021)
• How Whale Poo Is Powering the World’s Rainforests. (Jan 10, 2021)
• Global Eco Watch: Arm forest guards with guns instead of lathis, suggests SC. (Jan 9, 2021)
• Elephant carcass with missing tusks found in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj. (Jan 8, 2021)
• 2020 was the hottest year globally despite cooling La Niña. (Jan 8, 2021)
• Rajasthan’s latest draft forest policy proposes strict control over mining. (Jan 8, 2021)
• Angry river: How Jiadhal in Assam’s Dhemaji is changing livelihoods. (Jan 8, 2021)
• One in three large American rivers has changed colour in the last 34 years: Study. (Jan 8, 2021)
• Greenhouse gas emissions from man-managed grasslands similar to global croplands. (Jan 7, 2021)
• Global warming: Mollusc species collapsing in eastern Mediterranean, finds study. (Jan 7, 2021)
• Antarctic ozone hole — one of the largest, deepest — closes. (Jan 7, 2021)
• Over 3 lakh pregnancy losses every year linked to polluted air in South Asia. (Jan 7, 2021)
• Four killed in gas leak at Rourkela steel plant in Odisha. (Jan 6, 2021)
• Climate crisis: Uttarakhand may see forest fires round the year. (Jan 6, 2021)
• Chilika sees record number of migratory birds amid bird flu scare. (Jan 6, 2021)
• Sudden stratospheric warming may be behind recent cold weather. (Jan 6, 2021)
• 40th Indian scientific expedition to Antarctica launched. (Jan 5, 2021)
• New Year celebrations: Kolkata saw spike in most noise monitors at midnight among metros. (Jan 5, 2021)
• Satellite data alerts help stop Africa forest cover loss: Study. (Jan 5, 2021)
• UP, Bihar hit hardest by adverse weather in 2020. (Jan 5, 2021)
• Bengal buys dirtiest coal-based power generated in India: CSE study. (Jan 5, 2021)
• 2020 was 8th warmest year since 1901: IMD. (Jan 4, 2021)
• Two cyclones and a gas leak: Journey of migrants between urban precariousness and ravaged villages. (Jan 4, 2021)
• Indian oil sardines stocks show signs of revival after 5-year-long decline. (Jan 4, 2021)
• Power ministry asks MoEF&CC to dilute emission norms for coal-based power stations. (Jan 4, 2021)
• Bird flu deaths on the rise, environment ministry issues guidelines. (Jan 4, 2021)
• 800 Years of Paleoclimate [Obituary] Poet Sugathakumari: She gave voice to the Silent Valley. (Jan 4, 2021)
• Scientists Discover How Aerosols From Pollution, Desert Storms, and Forest Fires Can Intensify Thunderstorms. (Jan 3, 2021)
• Scientists Tracked Arctic Animals’ Movement Patterns for Three Decades – This Is What They Found. (Jan 3, 2021)
• 800 Years of Paleoclimate Patterns Unearthed in Largest Study of Asia’s Rivers. (Jan 3, 2021)
• Global Eco Watch: Ice Age woolly rhino unearthed in Siberia. (Jan 2, 2021)
• Shrinking Margins of Greenland: At Least 200 Coastal Glaciers Have Retreated Over the Past 20 Years. (Jan 2, 2021)
• India to be a co-chair of regional forum to conserve wildlife habitats. (Jan 1, 2021)