CAG finds 98% shortfall in Green India Mission forest cover targets, red-flags multiple lapses
The Comptroller and Auditor General raised concerns about the inadequacies within the Green India Mission…
Category: Environment
Over 1 million evacuated as Typhoon Dolphin hits eastern China; 1,400 Shanghai flights cancelled
China issues red alert as Typhoon Dolphin approaches. (Photo: ANI) More than a million people…
In 2010, Shanghai turned a polluted industrial brownfield into Houtan Park; its wetlands now clean up to 634,000 gallons of river water a day
A similar vantage point pre-park construction and a similar vantage point post-park construction (Source: Kongjian…
In 2002, a Kansas landowner began restoring 320 neglected acres with winter burns; 20 years later, native tallgrass and wildflowers had returned | World News
From ash to wildflowers: two decades of controlled burns on one Kansas prairie (representative image).…
India gets 101st ‘Ramsar’ site as Arunachal Pradesh’s Glaw Lake joins elite global list of protected wetlands | India News
Glaw Lake in Himachal Pradesh NEW DELHI: India’s one more wetland, Glaw Lake of Arunachal…
Heat, drought & rainfall extremes expanding across India; northwest emerging as heat hotspot: Study | Pune News
Extremes of heat, drought and rainfall can be seen. (AI-generated image used for representational purpose)…
Sunken German warship from WWII resurfaces due to low river levels in Serbia
An EU-backed project under the Western Balkans Investment Framework is working to remove 21 of…
Many Lutyens’ areas inundated; NDMC says water cleared quickly | Delhi News
New Delhi: Several parts of Lutyens’ Delhi were inundated Monday. In Connaught Place’s Outer Circle,…
French Wildfire: French wildfire created a monster cloud, unleashing lightning that ignited more fires
Monster cloud created by the wildfires PARIS: A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful…
Spain Wildfires: ‘All out of control’: Spain invokes first wildfire emergency as fires rage across Europe; over 10,000 evacuated
A wall of flames advances as a wildfire burns near Burgohondo, in Ávila province, Spain…