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❖ Indo-Gangetic Plain drying up? Water storage declined, ‘stream flow’ rose in Ganga, Indus basins last year, says WMO. (Nov 30, 2022).
❖ Update land records to include FRA titles allotted, MoEF&CC directs states. (Nov 29, 2022).
❖ Toxic air: Graded Response Action Plan announced for Kolkata, other Bengal cities. (Nov 29, 2022).
❖ Pau Brasil: CITES COP19 rejects proposal to include Brazil’s national tree in Appendix I. (Nov 28, 2022).
❖ No construction on Sukhatal lakebed near Naini lake, orders Uttarakhand High Court. (Nov 28, 2022).
❖ Perfect storm: What is the Fujiwhara Effect?. (Nov 28, 2022).
❖ Indian scientists receive international award on behalf of snow leopard conservation alliance. (Nov 27, 2022).
❖ CITES COP19 proposes budget of $150,000 for Big Cat Task Force. (Nov 26, 2022).
❖ CITES COP19: Rare Jeypore Ground Gecko listed in Appendix 2 to stall its trafficking . (Nov 26, 2022).
❖ El Nino year or neutral phase likely in 2023; transition may lead to monsoon deficit: Experts. (Nov 26, 2022)
❖ Life of Plastic: India its own worst enemy in tackling polymer pollution; here is how. (Nov 25, 2022)
❖ The warming Arctic Ocean is bringing more snowfall to Siberia, shows study. (Nov 25, 2022)
❖ Stripping carbon from the atmosphere might be needed to avoid dangerous warming — but it remains a deeply uncertain prospect. (Nov 25, 2022)
❖ Unique birds are at a higher risk of going extinct, finds study. (Nov 24, 2022)
❖ Hunting elephants, rhinos and pangolins for trade may affect climate, says UN paper; here is how. (Nov 24, 2022)
❖ CITES COP19 urges parties to remove references to pangolins from ‘official pharmacopoeia’. (Nov 23, 2022)
❖ Climate dystopia: As debate continues over COP27 outcomes, a world upside down is not far off. (Nov 23, 2022)
❖ Road to COP15 Montreal: Mexican indigenous groups yet to benefit under Nagoya Protocol; here is why. (Nov 22, 2022)
❖ Effective enforcement of laws, traceability needed for trade in European eels: COP19 draft decision. (Nov 22, 2022)
❖ COP27: Here’s how the Global Goal on Adaptation framework was negotiated at Sharm El-Sheikh. (Nov 21, 2022)
❖ Double standards on fossil fuel, backtracking on pledges: BASIC fires shots at wealthy countries at COP27. (Nov 17, 2022).
❖ CITES COP19: India’s freshwater turtle in danger of extinction. (Nov 16, 2022).
❖ COP27 diary (November 15): Political support to loss and damage facility critical, says Pakistan. (Nov 16, 2022)
❖ A tigress entered Almora from Corbett and was shot; Where is the accountability?. (Nov 16, 2022)
❖ US, Japan & others to fund Indonesia’s transition to clean energy. (Nov 16, 2022)
❖ COP27: India’s national statement lacked teeth; was centred around mission LiFE. (Nov 15, 2022)
❖ Extreme weather hits economies, hurts Asia most: WMO report. (Nov 15, 2022)
❖ Climate crisis: Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels remain at record high in 2022. (Nov 15, 2022).
❖ ‘Falcon Capital of the World’ records 178 bird species. (Nov 14, 2022)
❖ COP27 diary (November 12): ‘US won't support legal structures for loss and damage liabilities’. (Nov 14, 2022)
❖ COP27: Africa desperately needs a ‘loss and damage’ finance facility; here is why. (Nov 14, 2022)
❖ ‘Explosion’ in number of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP27 climate summit (Nov 14, 2022).
❖ Climate change is making livestock susceptible to diseases; here is how. (Nov 13, 2022)
❖ COP27 diary (November 11): Rich countries seek to delay and prolong discussions on loss and damage. (Nov 12, 2022)
❖ Is it climate change that impacts trajectory of dengue in India?. (Nov 11, 2022)
❖ A satellite data system will help detect, act on methane emissions. (Nov 11, 2022)
❖ Over 10,000 to attend UN biodiversity convention next month. (Nov 11, 2022)
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (Nov 11, 2022).
❖ COP27 diary (November 10): Rich countries admit funding gap in addressing loss & damage. (Nov 11, 2022)
❖ ‘Review 150,000 forest rights claims rejected without reason’. (Nov 10, 2022)
❖ COP27: India’s updated NDCs insufficient for cutting emissions, shows report. (Nov 10, 2022)
❖ Receding cryosphere: What latest WMO report warns us about. (Nov 10, 2022)
❖ COP27: Expert Group zeroes in on weak net zero targets; asks industries to speed up. (Nov 10, 2022)
❖ COP27 diary (November 9): $2 trillion needed to finance climate action in developing economies. (Nov 10, 2022)
❖ Back from the dead! ‘Extinct’ frog species make a comeback. (Nov 9, 2022)
❖ Less than a quarter of emission targets from Paris climate agreement met in 7 years. (Nov 9, 2022)
❖ COP27 diary (November 8): Presidency unveils plan to build climate resilience for 4 billion by 2030. (Nov 9, 2022)
❖ Climate change in Africa: 39% business affected by floods over the last year, shows survey. (Nov 9, 2022)
❖ COP27: Non-state actors can’t destroy the environment, yet claim to be net zero, says report. (Nov 8, 2022)
❖ COP14: Information on 75% of wetlands included in the list of Ramsar Sites is outdated. (Nov 8, 2022)
❖ Early warning for all: WMO unveils $3.1 bn plan at COP27. (Nov 8, 2022)
❖ COP27 diary (November 7): ‘World on a highway to climate hell, with our foot on the accelerator’. (Nov 8, 2022)
❖ Delhi air to remain ‘very poor’ this week. Here’s why the problem isn't going away. (Nov 7, 2022)
❖ COP27 must be remembered as ‘Implementation COP’, says Sameh Shoukry. (Nov 6, 2022)
❖ Loss and damage funding officially included in COP27 agenda. (Nov 6, 2022)
❖ WMO sounds alarm as COP27 gets underway, with 1.5°C target barely within reach. (Nov 6, 2022)
❖ COP14 on wetlands begins; draft resolution for international mangrove centre in China on agenda. (Nov 5, 2022)
❖ Run-up to COP27: The Pacific is now out of time, Vanuatu’s premier writes in DTE. (Nov 4, 2022)
❖ Arctic forest fires caused by global warming can jeopardise climate goals: Study. (Nov 4, 2022)
❖ Adaptation Gap Report 2022 raises alarm on climate finance. (Nov 3, 2022)
❖ Most number of tigers seized from poachers in India in 2 decades: Report. (Nov 3, 2022)
❖ Somewhere over the rainbow… climate impact is visible. (Nov 3, 2022)
❖ ‘Grains not stored porperly in FCI godown, rotting food creating pest hazard’. (Nov 3, 2022)
❖ Vehicles were top polluters in Delhi during Diwali week: CSE. (Nov 2, 2022)
❖ El Niño effect: Even in drought-tolerant forests, seedlings more likely to die. (Nov 2, 2022)
❖ G-20 spent nearly $700 billion supporting fossil fuels in 2021. (Nov 1, 2022)
❖ India saw natural disasters almost every day in first 9 months of 2022: CSE report. (Nov 1, 2022)
❖ Run-up to COP27: ­Zimbabweans count loss and damage as climate change hits country hard. (Nov 1, 2022)
❖ Climate models, ground assessments return differing readings of aerosol concentration: Study. (Nov 1, 2022)
❖ Brazil polls: Commentators cautiously welcome Lula win; say hard work on Amazon begins now. (Nov 1, 2022)
❖ Ban use of aceclofenac on cattle to save vultures, demands vet researchers. (Oct 31, 2022)
❖ NASA spots 50 methane super-emitters on Earth. (Oct 31, 2022)
❖ Run-up to COP27: Mozambique braces for more extreme weather events as rainy season begins. (Oct 28, 2022)
❖ Antarctic ozone layer hole keeps shrinking in 2022: NASA, NOAA. (Oct 28, 2022)
❖ Climate observing system remains fragile, needs funding: Experts. (Oct 28, 2022)
❖ Economic downturn eats into climate mitigation, adaptation funding: UNCTAD. (October 28, 2022)
❖ Emissions Gap Report 2022: Pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions way off track. (October 28, 2022)
❖ Halt deforestation by 2030: Are we on track to meet global pledge?. (Oct 27, 2022)
❖ Climate impact on health: India’s heat-related deaths went up by 55%, finds Lancet data. (Oct 27, 2022)
❖ Exposure to vehicular pollution may increase risk of dementia. (Oct 27, 2022)
❖ Record greenhouse gas emissions: Time running out, warns UN. (Oct 27, 2022)
❖ Countries’ targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions insufficient: UNFCCC. (Oct 26, 2022)
❖ Nearly every child will face frequent heatwaves by 2050: UNICEF. (Oct 26, 2022)
❖ Clouds can close gaps between highest and lowest temperatures in a day. (October 26, 2022)
❖ Prevention better than cure: Why World Bank bats for One Health to combat pandemics. (Oct 26, 2022)
❖ Diwali day sees rise in number of hospital visits for respiratory problems in Delhi. (Oct 25, 2022)
❖ Diwali 2022: Delhi air ‘very poor’, can worsen to ‘severe’. (Oct 25, 2022)
❖ Diwali pollution: Delhi air quality to be in ‘poor’ & ‘very poor’ categories today, tomorrow. (Oct 24, 2022)
❖ Warning: Air quality in North India may turn ‘severe’ by Diwali. (Oct 23, 2022)
❖ Obituary: Sujit Patwardhan, India’s sustainable urban transport champion. (Oct 22, 2022)
❖ Grazing animals play key role in maintaining soil carbon health: Study. (Oct 21, 2022)
❖ Cyclones getting fiercer; account for nearly half of India’s deaths due to climate-related disasters. (Oct 21, 2022)
❖ Oceans are warming twice as fast than the 1960s and it could get much worse. (Oct 21, 2022)
❖ Staff crunch, expanded mandate hitting pollution control Boards’ performance, finds report (Oct 20, 2022)
❖ Conservationists in Tamil Nadu welcome formation of vulture conservation committee in state. (Oct 20, 2022)
❖ Will PM 2.5 levels in Delhi-NCR go back to pre-pandemic levels this winter? (Oct 20, 2022)
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 19, 2022)
❖ Climate effect in space: Expect more satellite collisions. (Oct 19, 2022)
❖ World’s leading financial institutions continue to bankroll deforestation. (Oct 19, 2022)
❖ Can fast-moving glaciers contribute to sea-level rise?. (Oct 18, 2022)
❖ Swachh Survekshan 2022: Gurugram improves rank but long way to go for effective waste management. (Oct 18, 2022)
❖ Big push for One Health: FAO, UNEP, WHO, Animal health body lay out plan. (Oct 18, 2022)
❖ Earth just had its 5th-warmest September on record. (Oct 17, 2022)
❖ Delhites, all that rain does not mean you will have a smog-free Diwali. Here is why. (Oct 14, 2022)
❖ Eating right, for the environment: WWF’s diet chart to help curb climate change, biodiversity loss. (Oct 14, 2022)
❖ Ocean currents protect Galápagos Islands from global warming; but are they safe forever?. (Oct 14, 2022)
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (Oct 13, 2022)
❖ Living Planet Report 2022: Wildlife populations decline by 69% in 50 years. (Oct 13, 2022)
❖ As world converges for an African CoP, the continent’s east bets on geothermal. (Oct 12, 2022)
❖ Insects today damage plants more despite dwindling numbers: Study. (Oct 11, 2022)
❖ Climate crisis: Expect more extreme heatwaves in near future. (Oct 11, 2022)
❖ Recurring rains in October call for change in monsoon definition. (Oct 11, 2022)
❖ Climate finance: Donors give less than they claim; and not for mitigation to needy countries. (Oct 11, 2022)
❖ Bihar man-eater shot: Here is when an order can be given to put down such an animal. (Oct 10, 2022)
❖ A million-year-old marine DNA can reveal how climate change will affect Antarctica. (Oct 10, 2022)
❖ Climate change triggered droughts in Northern Hemisphere: Study. (Oct 10, 2022)
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders. (Oct 10, 2022)
❖ Vultures mostly forage outside protected areas; conservation efforts should be focused there, urges study. (Oct 8, 2022)
❖ Irony just died: Coca-Cola, among biggest global polluters, to sponsor CoP27. (Oct 7, 2022)
❖ UP Dussehra downpour: 10,000% excess rain in 3 districts of state wrecks kharif crop. (Oct 7, 2022)
❖ Ice flow in Antarctica changes with season, can impact sea-level rise estimates. (Oct 7, 2022)
❖ Graduates in forest education ill-equipped to handle sector’s emerging demands: Report. (Oct 7, 2022)
❖ FAO report forecasts spike in wood-based substitutes to non-renewables; expects 1 million new jobs. (Oct 7, 2022)
❖ Indigenous communities must be at the centre of sustainable agrifood systems: FAO director-general. (Oct 6, 2022)
❖ Climate change escalates suicide rates among Marathwada farmers. (Oct 6, 2022)
❖ No evidence of microplastics in emperor penguins, says study. (Oct 6, 2022)
❖ Climate risk index shows threats to 90% of the world’s marine species. (Oct 6, 2022)
❖ Monsoon 2022: Is excess September rainfall to blame for the Danda-2 avalanche in Uttarakhand. (Oct 5, 2022)
❖ Australia to make efforts at saving koalas, 108 other ‘priority species’ over next 10 years. (Oct 4, 2022)
❖ NGT stops mining in ecologically sensitive Madhav National Park in Madhya Pradesh. (Oct 4, 2022)
❖ Greener pastures: How Indian pastoralists are being aided to return to their traditional livelihood. (Oct 4, 2022)
❖ Climate change may aid spread of Lassa fever from west to east Africa by 2070: Report. (Oct 3, 2022)
❖ Human activities are eating into reindeer grazing land in Europe. (Oct 3, 2022)
❖ Gandhian sanitation simplified: Reusability, sustainability lead to cleanliness. (Oct 2, 2022)
❖ UNEP calls Nord Stream methane leak ‘biggest-ever’; plume over Europe fading. (Oct 1, 2022)
❖ Monsoon 2022 ends: 188 districts dry even after heavy rains in last week of September. (Sep 30, 2022)
❖ Community reserves: Are they forest department’s backdoor entry into North East India. (Sep 30, 2022)
❖ China, south Asia not proactive in reducing climate impacts on women: ICIMOD. (Sep 30, 2022)
❖ Ahead of IUCN meet, new study says bear bile demand in China sustained by medical practitioners. (Sep 30, 2022)
❖ ‘Permanently frozen’ Himalayan areas at severe drought risk due to global warming. (Sep 29, 2022)
❖ Stockholm Convention to take final call on 5 Persistent Organic Pollutants. (Sep 29, 2022)
❖ Multiple threats cause huge decline in migratory waterbirds in Africa, Eurasia. (Sep 28, 2022)
❖ Uttar Pradesh plans its 4th tiger reserve in Bundelkhand. (Sep 28, 2022)
❖ Methane emission to rise 13% by 2030 without global pledge, claims Kerry. (Sep 28, 2022)
❖ Fact check: Is it really Neelakurinji that is blooming in Chikkamagaluru. (Sep 27, 2022)
❖ Climate change blues: Many lakes to turn green, brown. (Sep 27, 2022)
❖ End fossil fuels: Climate group calls for global occupation of schools & universities. (Sep 27, 2022)
❖ Honeybees join humans as the only known animals that can tell the difference between odd and even numbers. (Sep 27, 2022)
❖ Ancient plant silphion known for curing many diseases probably still around: Expert. (Sep 27, 2022)
❖ World Environmental Health Day: One Health approach is key in preventing pandemics. (Sep 26, 2022)
❖ Repeated multi-year droughts hit India over last 1,000 years, water policies need reassessment: Study. (Sep 26, 2022)
❖ 60 years after they were last seen, tigers to come back to Madhya Pradesh’s Madhav National Park. (Sep 26, 2022)
❖ Aerosol pollution has huge impact on India’s infant mortality, crop productivity: Study. (Sep 26, 2022)
❖ Model shift: Climate change forces Zimbabwe to finally take up irrigation. (Sep 25, 2022)
❖ Fridays for Future: It isn’t too late, say young activists demanding climate reparations, justice. (Sep 23, 2022)
❖ Delhi-NCR deluge: 3 weather systems, La Nina and warming Arctic responsible, say experts. (Sep 23, 2022)
❖ Coral reefs can adapt to climate change; you must give them a chance. (Sep 23, 2022)
❖ Tasmania whales stranding: Climate change ‘among other factors’ can cause such events, say experts. (Sep 22, 2022)
❖ How many ants live on earth? At least 20,000,000,000,000,000. (Sep 22, 2022)
❖ Monsoon 2022 starts retreating after 114 days of erratic rainfall, extreme weather events (Sep 22, 2022).
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (Sep 21, 2022).
❖ The tomistoma does not usually attack humans but that is happening now; here is why. (Sep 21, 2022)
❖ ‘Largest public collection of unique plant germplasm in the world up for private takeover’. (Sep 20, 2022)
❖ Earth just experienced its 6th-warmest August on record. (Sep 20, 2022)
❖ Climate anxiety deters 61% youth in Egypt from having children. (Sep 20, 2022)
❖ Increasing Costa Rica’s riparian forests can improve its water quality, carbon storage. (Sep 19, 2022)
❖ Blame global warming for Pakistan floods; here’s why. (Sep 19, 2022)
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders. (Sep 19, 2022)
❖ Planetary summer: Why Europe may have reached a point of no return on prolonged droughts, heatwaves. (Sep 18, 2022)
❖ Back after 70 years: Narendra Modi releases African cheetahs into Kuno enclosure on his 72nd birthday. (Sep 17, 2022)
❖ Rising sea levels indicate new threat to Antarctic ice sheets, finds Stanford study. (Sep 16, 2022)
❖ odine drives substantial ground-level ozone loss in Arctic, climate change altering natural processes: Study. (Sep 16, 2022)
❖ World Ozone Day: Forest fires pose new threat to ozone layer. (Sep 16, 2022)
❖ Caracal: As the cheetah returns to India, researchers map out most suitable areas for its coursing counterpart. (Sep 16, 2022)
❖ Climate change will hit us hard: 7 in 10 people express fear in WEF survey. (Sep 15, 2022)
❖ Global ‘Stilling’: If you feel the wind is coming to a halt, climate change may be behind it. (Sep 15, 2022)
❖ UNEP launches new worldwide digital platform to encourage sustainable marine tourism. (Sep 15, 2022)
❖ What is behind deadly summer heatwaves in north-central India? (Sep 15, 2022)
❖ Windhoek to Jaipur: It is jet set go time for cheetahs. (Sep 14, 2022)
❖ Sea cucumbers most frequently trafficked marine species in India between 2015 and 2021: Analysis. (Sep 14, 2022)
❖ Win against waste colonialism: US group pledges restorative action after taking back ‘harmful’ report. (Sep 14, 2022)
❖ We’re headed in wrong direction: WMO’s United in Science report outlines action needed. (Sep 14, 2022)
❖ Half a million people may be affected by floods in Sudan this year. (Sep 13, 2022)
❖ Western Ghats: Supreme Court quashes plea against Gadgil, Kasturirangan reports. (Sep 13, 2022)
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (Sep 13, 2022)
❖ Co-existence, not Fortress Conservation: Here is why India’s cheetah experiment is unique. (Sep 12, 2022)
❖ Southeast Asians worried about food security, extreme weather events, shows climate survey. (Sep 12, 2022)
❖ Eastern Mediterranean, West Asia warming 2 times faster than global average: Report. (Sep 12, 2022)
❖ Over 1.1 million sea turtles poached in the last 30 years: Study. (Sep 12, 2022)
❖ After 40 years, Nayagarh villagers finally reap benefits of cashew plantation. (Sep 12, 2022)
❖ Cheetahs in Kuno next week: Leopard attacks, poaching, stress of capture remain concerns. (Sep 11, 2022)
❖ State of the Climate in Africa 2021: High water stress to displace up to 700 million Africans by 2030. (Sep 9, 2022)
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 9, 2022).
❖ Europe just had its hottest summer on record. (Sep 9, 2022)
❖ Kashmir human-wildlife conflict: Children being increasingly preyed upon by black bears, leopards. (Sep 9, 2022)
❖ Every tenth of a degree counts: Scientists sound alarm as number of climate tipping elements rises. (Sep 8, 2022)
❖ Invasive south red-eared slider turtle poses threat to Indian biodiversity. (Sep 8, 2022)
❖ The Greenwashers: Big Oil’s words and actions on climate emergency do not match, says study (Sep 8, 2022)
❖ Climate change-driven wildfires, heatwaves to worsen air quality & levy additional ‘climate penalty’. (Sep 8, 2022)
❖ Bengaluru floods: City’s stormwater drains are not good enough & government has known it for long. (Sep 8, 2022)
❖ More than half of Indian bird species are in academic campuses, says WII study. (Sep 7, 2022)
❖ Why is Greenland ice sheet melting faster this September? Experts weigh in (Sep 7, 2022)
❖ Fight for forest rights: Why these Dhamtari Adivasis gave up over 100 acres cropland to plant trees. (Sep 7, 2022)
❖ Declare lumpy skin an epidemic, say Uttar Pradesh cattle owners; seek aid (Sep 7, 2022)
❖ What is the environmental cost of factory-farmed meat? (Sep 6, 2022)
❖ Environment takes back seat: MoEFCC extends SOx compliance deadline again. (Sep 6, 2022)
❖ ‘Ghost villages’ of Uttarakhand report mass migrations for the fear of leopard attacks . (Sep 6, 2022)
❖ Thwaites ‘doomsday glacier’ can lose ice faster in coming years, coastal areas at risk: Study. (Sep 6, 2022)
❖ Narendra Modi to ‘launch’ cheetahs into Kuno-Palpur on his birthday. (Sep 6, 2022)
❖ Multiple troughs, La Nina: Why Bengaluru is flooding repeatedly this monsoon. (Sep 6, 2022)
❖ Do away with forest clearance to explore mining activities: Mines ministry to MoEF&CC. (Sep 5, 2022)
❖ Long live the queen: Anti-insulin protein linked to 500% increase in longevity among ants. (Sep 5, 2022)
❖ Early to wake is neither healthy nor wise for bumblebees. (Sep 5, 2022)
❖ La Nina’s rare ‘triple dip’ likely to affect weather patterns globally. (Sep 2, 2022)
❖ Want to eat fish tomorrow? Halt climate change, overfishing today. (Sep 2, 2022)
❖ Once upon a time in India, lions were present from West to East, even south of Narmada: Study. (Sep 2, 2022)
❖ Can high temperatures impact people’s ratings of their lives? (Sep 2, 2022)
❖ September monsoon forecast: IMD predicts excessive rainfall for south, west, central India. (Sep 2, 2022)
❖ Greenhouse gas, sea levels reached record highs in 2021: NOAA Report. (Sep 1, 2022)
❖ Only 10 of 46 Least Developed Countries mention loss and damage explicitly in NDCs: Study (Sep 1, 2022).
❖ Concurrent extreme weather: Almost all continents hit by heatwave in July, drought in August, DTE finds. (Sep 1, 2022)
❖ Bad weather ahead: Water-related risks can cost 7 large economies $5.6 billion. (Sep 1, 2022)
❖ Most number of saltwater crocodile births in Bhitarkanika this year. (Sep 1, 2022)
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 31, 2022)
❖ Is it climate crisis that fuelled flooding in Pakistan? (August 31, 2022)
❖ Locals oppose petrochemical project plan in Odisha’s Kendrapara over green concerns. (August 30, 2022)
❖ Air pollution deaths: What troubles Delhi today may haunt Mumbai tomorrow. (August 30, 2022)
❖ International Whale Shark Day: Wildlife Trust of India launches campaign to sensitise fishers along southwest coast. (August 30, 2022)
❖ Missed opportunity: UN session to save biodiversity in high seas ends without consensus. (Aug 30, 2022)
❖ Freshwater crab species with striking colours found in Western Ghats. (August 30, 2022).
❖ Taking ownership: How forest-dwellers in Chhattisgarh, Odisha claimed rights over traditional boundary (August 29, 2022).
❖ Global warming is real: Research predicts 6-fold rise in fish mass die-offs by 2100. (August 29, 2022).
❖ World Bank agrees to look into construction of Uttarakhand dam (August 29, 2022).
❖ Kuno plans to electrify enclosure fence to prevent leopard-cheetah conflict (August 29, 2022).
❖ Noida twin tower demolition: How will it affect local flora, fauna. (August 29, 2022).
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 27, 2022).
❖ Rare 3rd consecutive La Nina event underway, could impact agriculture.(Aug 26, 2022).
❖ Good news! Recovery of ozone layer achieves significant milestone. (August 26, 2022).
❖ King cobras in Chhattisgarh: Is climate change behind 31 new nesting spots.(Aug 26, 2022).
❖ Future in forest: How eviction of villagers from Achanakmar tiger reserve united adivasis to fight for CFRR. (August 26, 2022).
❖ Hot century ahead: India can’t beat the heat even if global warming is capped at 2°C. (August 26, 2022).
❖ Ustad redux? Ranthambore ‘mankiller’ T-104 could be shifted to a cage in Mukundara. (August 25, 2022).
❖ Live electric wires a huge threat to wild elephants; two female jumbos die in Odisha. (August 25, 2022)
❖ Lumpy disease: 35,000 cattle killed in 9 states. (Aug 25, 2022)
❖ July heatwave triggers air pollution in UK. (August 25, 2022).
❖ Wildfires destroy twice the forest cover today compared to 2 decades ago. (August 25, 2022).
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 24, 2022).
❖ ‘Gray blanket’ over Australia: Genetics may have aided European rabbit invasion of continent in 1859, says study. (August 24, 2022).
❖ Have cyclones in monsoon become the new ‘normal’?. (August 24, 2022).
❖ Nitrogen-fixing plants are more diverse in arid environments; but will they survive climate change?. (August 24, 2022).
❖ Monsoon 2022: Jharkhand farmers give up on paddy harvest due to scanty rains. (August 24, 2022).
❖ Global warming: Forests, grasslands getting depleted of nitrogen; can impact animal growth. (August 24, 2022).
❖ Lockdowns pull down poaching rates in Africa but rhinos still threatened. (August 23, 2022).
❖ North East India records lowest rainfall in 122 years. (August 23, 2022).
❖ Wet century ahead: Extreme rainfall here to stay for Western Ghats, North East. (August 23, 2022).
❖ Victory for Jharkhand tribals: Netarhat firing range not be renotified. (August 23, 2022).
❖ Good news! Pacific Bluefin Tuna stock to rebound sooner than expected due to global conservation efforts. (August 22, 2022).
❖ China faces its longest, most severe drought ever recorded. (August 22, 2022)
❖ Perfect decomposition: This Goa startup’s alternative to plastic wrappers is made of corn starch. (Aug 21, 2022)
❖ Sequence for a just future: Can safeguards for digital genomic data from biodiversity be ensured. (August 21, 2022)
❖ A forest title helped these 3 Odisha villages transform their traditional jungle; here is how. (Aug 19, 2022)
❖ Weather Alert: Possible cyclone over West Bengal, Odisha. (Aug 19, 2022)
❖ Reintroducing cheetahs: Elephants help in moving leopards away from Kuno National Park. (August 19, 2022)
❖ Did climate change trigger US’s worst West Nile virus outbreak? (August 18, 2022)
❖ Half of world’s cities had PM2.5 levels above least-stringent WHO standards last decade: Report. (Aug 18, 2022)
❖ This fish can survive sub-zero temperatures; but will it beat climate change. (Aug 18, 2022)
❖ Carved in stone: What are these warning signs that Europe's drought has revealed.(Aug 18, 2022)
❖ Delhi, Kolkata first, second globally in PM2.5 pollution: Report.(Aug 17, 2022)
❖ UN meet begins over treaty to govern use of high seas. (August 17, 2022)
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 17, 2022)
❖ It’s hot and more than what that heat index tells you.(Aug 17, 2022)
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 16, 2022)
❖ Activists show lacuna in Assam PCCF’s notification on elephant microchips to prevent illegal transport.(Aug 12, 2022)
❖ Centre notifies India’s 31st elephant reserve in Tamil Nadu. (Aug 12, 2022)
❖ World Elephant Day: Why conservation efforts in Africa evoke opposing reactions. (Aug 12, 2022)
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 12, 2022)
❖ Air pollution will harm brain development, 9 of 10 people breathe polluted air. (Aug 11, 2022)
❖ Cheetah relocation: Wild cats likely to arrive Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno by end of August. (Aug 11, 2022)
❖ Hot nights due to climate change will increase death rate by six times: Study. (Aug 10, 2022)
❖ ‘We’re portrayed as Maoists, jailed for protesting’: 18 Gariaband villages refuse to give up fight for forest rights. (Aug 10, 2022)
❖ Australia shivers as winter ends; spring to be wet due to negative Indian Ocean Dipole, La Nina. (Aug 10, 2022)
❖ Extreme weather unabated: Third-hottest July took Antarctic sea ice to its minimum since 1979. (Aug 10, 2022)
❖ Has Odisha’s Bhitarkanika reached a saturation point for its estuarine crocodiles? Experts say yes. (Aug 09, 2022)
❖ World Lion Day: Asiatic lions used to inhabit most of southwest Asia & India. (Aug 09, 2022)
❖ Assess marine biodiversity before permitting deep-sea mining: Experts. (Aug 09, 2022)
❖ July 2022 marks the 3rd hottest on record for the US. (Aug 09, 2022)
❖ NASA highlights loss of mangrove cover on Katchal island in the Nicobars. (Aug 09, 2022)
❖ Third heatwave of this summer hits Europe, may be prolonged but less intense than July. (Aug 09, 2022)
❖ Inflation Reduction Act: Experts cautious as US Senate passes landmark climate investment bill. (Aug 08, 2022)
❖ Data on plant ‘sweat’ might help predict wildfire severity. (Aug 08, 2022)
❖ Clean impression: Ironers in Bengaluru ditch coal irons for LPG alternatives to beat harmful fumes. (Aug 07, 2022)
❖ Wildlife Protection Amendment Bill: Why ‘religious or any other purpose’ clause has enraged animal activists. (Aug 05, 2022)
❖ Tackling marine plastic pollution. (Aug 05, 2022)
❖ Dry beginning: Scanty June rain means delayed Kharif; and it’s becoming common. (Aug 05, 2022)
❖ These 2 Odisha villages wrangle over forest land, but maintain harmony. (Aug 05, 2022)
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 4, 2022).
❖ Over 1,500 people died in elephant attacks in last 3 years, maximum casualties in Odisha. (Aug 04, 2022)
❖ ‘Treasure map’ of ants may help experts discover new species in India. (Aug 04, 2022)
❖ 2 largest US reservoirs at ‘dangerously low levels’: UNEP. (Aug 04, 2022)
❖ Tonga volcano spews enough water to fill 58,000 pools into stratosphere, likely to add to global warming. (Aug 04, 2022)
❖ Clear signs: 1.5°C warmer world to be catastrophic for India. (Aug 04, 2022)
❖ Can upcoming vulture centre near Gorakhpur revive UP’s numbers?. (Aug 03, 2022)
❖ India’s updated climate pledge to Paris Agreement gets Union Cabinet nod. (Aug 03, 2022)
❖ Only 7% of total legacy waste in Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill is bio-mined: Report. (Aug 02, 2022)
❖ Forest losses occur primarily in lower-income tropical countries: Study. (Aug 03, 2022)
❖ Half of Europe at risk of drought, power generation hit too: Report. (Aug 03, 2022)
❖ Eucalyptus, acacia and teak, not Sal: Why CAG is critical of Odisha’s afforestation efforts (Aug 02, 2022)
❖ India set to get new biodiversity law; will it have teeth. (Aug 02, 2022)
❖ Himalayan birds at higher risk of losing unique traits: Study. (Aug 02, 2022)
❖ What will Supreme Court judgement on Aravalli mean for forest conservation? (Aug 02, 2022)
❖ Monsoon 2022: Driest July on record for east and North East India. (Aug 01, 2022)
❖ Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (Aug 01, 2022)
❖ Researchers identify fungus for pyrene remediation. (Aug 01, 2022)
❖ NDC compliance not enough, world may still be 2.5°C warmer by 2100: Study. (Aug 01, 2022)