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We have toilet-trained cows. It could help combat climate change

The cows learned faster than a toddler.

Rich nations aren’t pooling in the big bucks to help poorer nations tackle climate change

OECD figures show developed nations made almost no progress on their promise to mobilise $100 billion a year by 2020 in climate finance. The shortfall is likely to be a hurdle at COP26.

India, US will work together to advance clean energy goals, says climate envoy John Kerry

Speaking at launch of Climate Action and Finance Mobilization Dialogue (CAFMD), Kerry says both nations will collaborate on achieving green energy goals and promoting bilateral trade.

AI could become our ‘Swiss Army knife’ in the fight against climate change

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence have produced groundbreaking technological innovation. It’s now time to embrace this progress.

Regional offices can now grant forest clearance to ‘supplementary’ mining projects

This means clearances required for additional roads, railway lines, and conveyor belts attached to mining projects need not come from the central government

Reducing tax, subsidies to formal recycling sector can help reduce lead pollution: IIT study

The research is based on modelling study of how regulated & unregulated recyclers of lead-acid batteries interact in market & what economic interventions could ensure less lead pollution.

Editorial by 220 journals, including Lancet and BMJ, urges emergency action on climate change

Published Monday, the editorial calls for all countries to deliver enhanced and ambitious climate plans to honour the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Almost half the world’s children are at a threat from climate and environmental shocks

Water scarcity, pollution, heatwaves, cyclones, and flooding — almost every child on Earth is exposed to at least one of these risks, UNICEF finds.

How Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to total organic farming has led to an economic disaster

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was forced to impose an economic emergency on 31 August to contain soaring food inflation, and currency devaluation and forex reserves crisis.

Amazon habitats are shrinking due to increasing forest fires & deforestation, study says

For the study, scientists use satellite data to find that up to 85 per cent of threatened species in the Amazon could have lost their habitat due to forest fires, since 2001.

On Camera

Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar didn’t have a cabaret-classical split. It was about genre, style

Consider Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar’s duet ‘Chhod Do Aanchal’. The sequence was set in a flower garden, and the girl’s bashfulness was not even remotely relatable to a cabaret dancer.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.