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Thursday, July 30, 2026
TopicClimate change

Topic: Climate change

Mumbai is running out of drinking water. A desalination plant in Manori is BMC’s solution

Mumbai is set to get its first-ever desalination plant, which will turn saline water from the Arabian Sea into drinking water, at a scale the city has never attempted before.

Not just El Nino. Climate change primary cause of global coral bleaching, says new US study

The study, published in Oceanography journal, looked at the main global bleaching events — 1998, 2010, 2014-17, and 2018-2025 — and how they coincided with El Nino events.

UN climate chief likens India’s clean energy growth to Tendulkar and Sooryavanshi

Simon Stiell, who is in Delhi for a series of meetings with Indian government representatives and NGOs, praised India’s renewable rise, calling it a solar superpower.

2026 is said to be the strongest El Niño in recorded history. What it means for India

No El Niño year before 2026 has seen this level of warming this early in the year. The first 13 days of July have already recorded a mean temperature of 2°C above normal.

700-year-old banyan in Bihar has been a silent chronicler of the climate

The findings were published by a team of researchers at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology.

Israeli-US startup wants to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight back. Scientists are worried

Stardust Solutions develops the particle that reflects sunlight, and also studies how it will be dispersed into the atmosphere and how it will be monitored if it turns harmful.

Something’s changed in the kind of monsoon clouds over India in 30 years

The disappearance of altostratus clouds has transformed predictable, steady showers into chaotic and heavy downpours.

How a Darjeeling tea estate turned into one of India’s biggest carbon removal experiments

AltCarbon has scaled its enhanced rock weathering experiment from a 300-acre pilot to 60,000 acres and over 35,000 farmers across North Bengal.

This ‘black box’ in Australia will document the end of the world

The project is led by Australian non-profit Rouser Lab. It was announced in 2021 and will be installed in December.

Rising heat affects cow milk quality. There’s less protein and fat

New research from Cornell University has found that warming temperatures reduce the fat and protein content in cow's milk. The diluted milk led to a 2.8 per cent lower annual revenue for farmers.

On Camera

How the 1881 census redefined colonial rule in India

From hidden elders to uncounted infants, colonial enumerators faced widespread public distrust during the first all-India count.

NH toll revenue doubles in five years to over Rs 70,000 crore as number of plazas rises sharply

Government tells Parliament toll collections touched Rs 70,278 crore in 2025-26, Rajasthan has highest number of toll plazas, while expenditure on operating plazas is not maintained centrally.

The ‘outlier’ caves in: Permanent commission allowed for women in Indian Coast Guard

On Tuesday, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh unveiled a policy for gender-neutral induction and career progression of officers in Indian Coast Guard.

Youth’s struggles won’t end with Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. Govt must decentralise education

Our education system is a destroyer of all talent by enforcing learning by rote, pushing students to coaching classes to ‘crack’ competitive exams. And then, papers leak.