Aravalli: Mountain older than memory If demography can be a dividend, geography certainly decides its destiny. Few landscapes illustrate this more clearly than the Aravalli Range, an ancient chain of hills that quietly shapes water security, climate, and life across western and northwestern India.The hills that run for nearly 690 km from Gujarat through Rajasthan…
A team of marine mammal experts had spent several days in Cowichan Bay, British Columbia, searching for a sea lion with an orange rope wrapped around its neck. As the sun set Dec 8, they were packing up, for good, when a call came in.The tangled animal, a female Steller sea lion weighing 330 pounds,…
Hyderabad: Behind the sweeping green promises of Telangana’s Vision 2047 lies an ambition that could reshape the state’s ecology — if bold targets are matched by realistic timelines and strong enforcement on the ground.The Vision 2047 document presents a wide-ranging environmental roadmap, placing water bodies, green buffers and ecosystem restoration at the centre of long-term…
BELEM: California Governor Gavin Newsom says his Democratic party is “back on its feet” after a string of election wins — and the way to make Americans care about global warming is to show how it affects their wallets.The 58-year-old leader of the Golden State spoke to AFP at the UN’s annual climate summit, held…
Olkiluoto island on the western coast of Finland used to be just an energy hub for the country bordering Russia. But with the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it became strategically important as Helsinki decided it could no longer rely on Russian energy.Up until then, the country had been receiving…
As the World Climate Conference, COP30, is underway in Belem, Brazil, the disastrous consequences of environmental crimes are visible across the Amazon. This highlights an oft-overlooked fact in the fight to combat a warming world: Tackling organized crime is also key to safeguarding the climate. In the Amazon, criminal groups like the Comando Vermelho (CV),…
Protests in Brazil amid Cop30 summit (AFP image) Belem, Nov 15, 2025 -Tens of thousands of people thronged the streets of the Amazonian city hosting COP30 talks on Saturday, dancing to thumping speakers in the first large-scale protest at a UN climate summit in years.Under a searing sun, Indigenous people and activists sang, chanted and…
Climate crisis leading to an education upheaval.Image: AI-generated (Representative) What happens to a country with one of the world’s largest youth populations when it falters on its promise to provide education, especially due to climate change? The very aspiration that once chronicled a bright future is now blistering under rising heat across parts of India….
NEW YORK: Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics — but how much is too much? The bar is low, according to a new study out Monday: less than three sugar cubes worth could kill birds like Atlantic puffins, for example.That threshold “is much smaller than we expected,” said…
Carbon dioxide is vital to all life on Earth. Without it, plants wouldn’t be able to grow and produce the oxygen we breathe. Yet an excess of CO2 is posing a real threat to the livability of the planet. As a greenhouse gas it traps heat in the Earth’s atmosphere and CO2 levels have increased…