Environment

Photo: Reuters/Nathan Howard WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on September 10 he is confident that a clean fuels tax credit program set to take effect in 2025 will be finalized by end of the Biden administration in

SILVER SPRING, MD (ANI) - Renowned environmentalist and filmmaker Mike Pandey has been honored with the 2024 Jackson Wild Legacy Award, one of the highest accolades in wildlife and environmental filmmaking. He received the award at a gala event held

MEXICO CITY, (REUTERS) - Michoacan state, Mexico's avocado heartland, launched a certification program on September 4 aimed at helping consumers in the US and other countries avoid those grown on illegally logged land. The stamp of approval will go to avocados

Photo: Reuters Amit Dave MUMBAI, (REUTERS) - India is forecast to receive above-average rainfall in September after surplus rains in August, the weather department said on September 7.The rainfall in September is likely to be more than 109% of a 50-year

By Vineet Mittal, Navitas Solar MUMBAI - India stands at a crucial juncture in its energy transition, with solar power emerging as a game-changer. As the world's third-largest energy consumer, the country faces the challenge of balancing rapid economic growth with

Photo: Reuters/Amit Dave MUMBAI, (REUTERS) - A push by India to make more corn-based ethanol has turned Asia's top corn exporter into a net importer for the first time in decades, squeezing local poultry producers and scrambling global supply chains. The jump

Photo: Reuters/Brian Snyder WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - Donald Trump would rescind many of President Joe Biden's clean energy rules while also speeding approvals of power plants to meet the nation's rising electricity demands, the Republican's presidential campaign said. Trump would axe clean

Photo: Reuters/Dado Ruvic MEMPHIS, TN (REUTERS) - Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, is facing criticism from environmental and health advocates for allegedly contributing to pollution in here, by using natural gas-burning turbines at its data center without obtaining necessary permits. The Southern

Photo: Reuters/Steve Marcus WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - US miners and battery recyclers are rushing to close government loans worth billions of dollars before January out of concern that Republican Donald Trump would, if elected, block funding needed to boost American output

Photo: Reuters Marc-Andre Leclerc/Canadian Forces/Handout VANCOUVER, (REUTERS) - Wildfires that swept Canada's woodlands last year released more greenhouse gases than some of the largest emitting countries, a study found on August 28, calling into question national emissions budgets that rely on

Photo: White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi at, Source: @alizaidi46 WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - Jobs in the US clean energy industry in 2023 grew at more than double the rate of the country's overall jobs, and unionization in clean energy surpassed

WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - The Biden administration said August 27 it is awarding $521 million in grants to build out electric vehicle charging and deploying more than 9,200 EV charging ports. The Energy Department and Federal Highway Administration said $321 million

Photo: Reuters/Francis Mascarenhas NEW DELHI, (REUTERS) - India will spend nearly $300 million in two years to expand water bodies like lakes and build drains in seven cities including Mumbai, Chennai, and Bengaluru to mitigate floods and conserve water, a government

Photo: Reuters/Lee Celano HOUSTON, TX (REUTERS) - An oil production breakthrough that producers say can safely tap ultra-high-pressure fields could put up to 5 billion barrels of previously inaccessible crude into production, analysts said. Chevron on August 12 disclosed it had pumped

NEW DELHI (ANI) – Actor Dia Mirza who is also a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador and United Nations Secretary-General Advocate for Sustainable Development has often been vocal for change and has contributed her efforts in the field of social change,

Photo: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - When Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for president last month, the Tesla founder and chief executive backed a candidate who vows to "drill, baby, drill," "end the electric vehicle mandate" and reduce subsidies of

By Cristina Marcos, World Wildlife Fund The last few months of 2024 will be pivotal for the future of our planet. This fall, world leaders will gather on the international stage in rapid succession to address plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, and

Photo: Wikipedia India-West News Desk SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has criticized Elon Musk for his climate change tutorial directed at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, calling it "dumb." In a series of posts on X, Khosla addressed Trump’s

WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - The US, one of the world's biggest plastic makers, will support a global treaty calling for a reduction in how much new plastic is produced each year in a major policy shift, a source close to

ANCHORAGE, AK (REUTERS) - Glaciers in the Juneau Icefield in southeastern Alaska are melting at a faster rate than previously thought and may reach an irreversible tipping point sooner than expected, according to a study published on August 13. Researchers at

MUMBAI, (IANS) - On ‘Nag Panchami’, actress Karishma Tanna has shared a post asking people to skip the milk offerings to the snakes, as they are ‘starved by charmers and forced to consume it’. Karishma posted, “Skip the milk offerings… Contrary

Photo: Reuters/Quetzalli Nicte-Ha By Cassandra Garrison MADERO - On a sweltering July afternoon, two large yellow bulldozers dug into the brown soil at the bottom of a lush avocado orchard near the small town of Madero, located in central Mexico’s Michoacan state. Drone

WASHINGTON, DC (ANI) - Air pollution hinders bees from finding flowers because it degrades the scent. A research team from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the Universities of Birmingham, Reading, Surrey, and Southern Queensland discovered that ozone

BOSTON, MA (ANI) - There are considerable variances in how much people are exposed to air pollution, according to a new study co-authored by MIT researchers that considers everyday mobility. The study does not simply estimate air pollution exposure based on

RICHMOND, VA (IANS) - SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, was detected in six common backyard animals in the US, with antibodies indicating prior exposure found in five species, a new study found on July 29. The six species were deer

CANBERRA, (IANS) - Storms and air currents can influence the climate outcomes of La Nina and El Nino events, research from Australia's national science agency has found. In a study published on July 31, a team from the Commonwealth Scientific and

PALO ALTO, CA (IANS) - Over the past 500-plus million years, the interactions between the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and life have created favorable conditions for early organisms. An interdisciplinary team of scientists has explored this co-evolutionary history in a perspective article

HARBIN (IANS) - The global wild tiger population has risen from approximately 3,200 in 2010 to around 5,500 in 2024, with countries such as China, Russia, India and Nepal doubling their wild tiger populations, according to the World Wildlife Fund

JERUSALEM, (IANS) - An Israeli study has found that most of the world's drylands, which cover nearly half of the Earth's land surface, are unprotected from human land-use conversion, threatening biodiversity in these areas, including extinction dangers, Ben Gurion University

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - While mangrove forests are depleting globally, and India does not have a different story, its importance here has not been highlighted enough. To counter the same, wildlife filmmaker Rohit Varma is set to release his short film

Photo: REUTERS/Bing Guan WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - The top two lawmakers on the Senate Energy Committee on July 22 introduced long-awaited legislation to speed permitting of power transmission, mining, and liquefied natural gas export projects. Senators Joe Manchin, an independent who caucuses

Photo: REUTERS/Tom Brenner WASHINGTON, DC (Reuters) - The Biden administration on July 22 announced 25 projects pitched by 30 different state, local, and tribal governments that applied for $4.3 billion in grants created by the president's signature climate law. The grants, which

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - At a time when the world is battling the effects of climate change a ‘love story’ between humans and trees in Chhattisgarh’s Durg District is catching everyone’s attention.  Residents of Pisegaon, situated on the banks of Shivnath

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - A unique art installation of the Olive Ridley Turtles at the Puri beach in Odisha has turned out to be a big draw as thousands of tourists are thronging the area to witness the "wonder at

WASHINGTON DC, (ANI) - A new report from the World Bank reveals the profound impact of climate change on education systems globally. As the climate crisis intensifies, extreme weather conditions are significantly disrupting educational environments and learning outcomes, especially in

GUWAHATI, (IANS) - The ongoing floods in Assam have claimed the lives of over 200 wild animals, including 10 rhinos at the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve despite the authorities taking multi-pronged measures to save the lives of animals. According

ISLAMABAD (ANI) - The illegal cutting and commercial exploitation of glaciers in regions like Dir, Chitral, Swat, Shangla, Kaghan, Naran, and other parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa poses a grave threat to the ecological and climatic stability of the province. These

LUCKNOW, (IANS) - As part of its decision to preserve the state's cultural heritage, Uttar Pradesh will nurture 948 heritage trees through the Heritage Tree Adoption Scheme. A total of 28 species of trees, each more than 100 years old,

KANNUR (ANI) - Kerala climate activist, Kallur Balan, popularly known as 'green man', for planting and nurturing lakhs of trees along the roadsides has taken up another mission: providing food and water to wild animals and birds. Velu Balakrishnan, which is

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - The sale of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is set to hit the 10-million milestone this year, marking a significant achievement for the global passenger vehicle market, a report showed on July 2. The growth will be supported

NEW DELHI, (REUTERS) - In the Vivekananda Camp slum, adjacent to the US embassy in New Delhi, communal taps supply brackish water for about two hours a day. Water delivered by tankers provides one additional bucket to each of its

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - Short-term air pollution exposure claimed 33,000 lives annually in 10 cities in India and Delhi tops the list with 12,000 deaths every year, according to a study published on July 4 in The Lancet Planetary Health. The

KOLKATA, (IANS) - India has become the first country to prepare World's First Checklist of its entire 104,561 fauna species, making it a global leader in biodiversity documentation. The Fauna of India Checklist Portal was launched to mark the 109th

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - A milkman in a small village in the interiors of Panna, Madhya Pradesh would be suddenly possessed by the spirit of 'Thakur Baba', gaining miraculous powers to heal those who truly believed. In a rare case, a

NEW DELHI, (IANS) - The UN on July 1 released proposals to share the use of "digital sequence information on genetic resources (DSI)" -- the DNA sequences of plants, animals and microbes -- to support communities supporting nature. The documents are

Photo: epa.gov LOS ANGELES, CA (IANS) - Early-life exposure to air pollution may have a direct effect on lung health later in life, reveals a study on Friday that underlines the need to reduce pollution. Scientists at the University of Southern California

LUCKNOW, (IANS) - The population of the Sarus crane, named the state bird of Uttar Pradesh in 2015, has been increasing and the trend is expected to continue this year too, forest officials said. The information came after the first round

NEW DELHI (ANI) - Air pollution accounted for 8.1 million deaths globally in 2021, becoming the second leading risk factor for death, a report prepared in partnership with UNICEF revealed. Air pollution is the second-leading risk factor for death globally, putting

GUWAHATI, (IANS) - Insufficient rainfall and excessive heat are hampering tea production during the current cropping season in Assam and West Bengal. Data released by the Tea Board of India indicates a production drop of around 8 percent in Assam

Photo: Wikipedia NEW DELHI (News Agencies) - The Hindu Kush Himalaya region is facing a significant drop in snow persistence this year, raising serious concerns over water security for downstream communities, according to a new report. The region heavily relies on the