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Wednesday, August 20, 2025
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Topic: Climate change

Should Indians join the call for ‘birth strike’ by global climate change activists?

Climate change activists across the globe are giving a call for 'birth strike'.

Spy satellite images show Himalayan glaciers are melting rapidly

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to the best sources to read them.

Himalayan cities are looking like garbage dumps with sewage rivers. Modi govt must step in

PM Modi should convene a meeting of the chief ministers of Himalayan states to come up with immediate interventions to safeguard the mountain range.

India can’t commit to climate change abroad and be non-compliant on environment at home

Government’s hurriedly thought out mechanisms have neither improved environmental performance of projects, nor reduced legal cases against polluting ones.

Most of us were born into climate change — it’s the only world we’ve ever known

Global surface temperatures have passed the 1951-1980 average every year since 1977. Anyone born since has lived their entire lives in a changed climate.

Amitav Ghosh is the Jnanpith Award winner and climate crusader India doesn’t know it needs

Through his writings, Amitav Ghosh forces public personas to talk about climate change, toxic majoritarianism and dwindling space for free speech.

Highest global carbon emissions in 7 years indicate failed efforts to control climate change

China, India and the U.S. were responsible for two thirds of the 2.9% increase in consumption, said BP's annual review of world energy.

Sweden is flight shaming people and it is working

As the full extent of climate change becomes more apparent, fewer Swedes are willing to travel in a way they see as harmful to the environment.

On World Environment Day, a look at the global green problems killing Mother Nature

The theme of this year’s World Environment Day is ‘Beat Air Pollution’, which assumes importance for India as it is facing a major air quality crisis.

Your bowl of rice is hurting the climate more than you may think

The practice of flooding paddy fields releases methane into the atmosphere, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than CO2.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?