PET project to cut virgin plastic use
Global sportswear giant Adidas aims at eliminating the use of virgin plastics in its products by 2024.
Ecologists have 596 reasons to cheer
Scientists and taxonomists have documented 596 new species of flora and fauna from India in the year 2018.
Indian Navy Environment Conservation Roadmap (INECR)
Navy steams ahead with its plans to go ‘green’.
Scientists vote to recognize Anthropocene as Earth’s new epoch
Scientists have voted to declare “Anthropocene” as a new chapter in the Earth’s geological history.
Iterative evolution: How a bird that went extinct came back from the dead
The white-throated rail is the only flightless bird known in the Indian Ocean area.
Netherlands’ ‘Room for the River’ project that Kerala CM wants to replicate
Last year, Kerala had witnessed the century’s worst floods, which claimed nearly 500 lives and wiped out thousands of homes.
Crested ibises fly free in South Korea
An endangered bird was reintroduced to the wild by South Korean authorities four decades after it went extinct on the peninsula.
‘Not all animals migrate by choice’ campaign launched to raise awareness on illegal wildlife trade
UN Environment and Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has launched an awareness campaign for the protection of wildlife in the backdrop of rising illegal wildlife trade through airports.
Climate risk protocols
20 institutional investors from 11 countries convened by the UN Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) made public a report that helps investors understand how to calculate the risk companies face from climate change.
Varanasi has only one air quality monitoring station
PM Modi’s constituency Varanasi have only one air quality monitoring station, despite being ranked as among the top 3 most polluted cities in the world three years ago.