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Friday, October 10, 2025
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Topic: environment

SubscriberWrites: Making our cities cool again

By 2030, billions of city dwellers are expected to be frequently exposed to extreme heatstress. So let’s make our cities cool.

Canada on course for worst-ever wildfire season: Where are they burning & what’s causing them

The forest fires started in British Columbia & Alberta. While most fires in the western provinces are under control, they have now opened new fronts spreading to eastern provinces.

El Nino may hammer Asian farms with dry weather, but shower American growers

As El Nino looms, wheat output in Australia, the world’s second-largest exporter of the grain, is also expected to take a hit from dry weather, forecasters and analysts said.

Gujarat to launch new green hydrogen policy, draft to be ready in 2 months

The use of green hydrogen will substantially lessen carbon emission and the policy is in keeping with India’s reduction targets.

NGT sets up panel to look into ‘environmental violations’ during renovation of Delhi CM Kejriwal’s residence

Tribunal was hearing application by Delhi resident claiming violation of compensatory plantation scheme and construction carried out without approval of Delhi Urban Art Commission.  

SubscriberWrites: Pulicat lake needs Chilika-like intervention to save its biodiversity

Long-term management planning, monitoring of the lake, development of a properinstitutional framework are some of the measures that can be taken up, writes Kannan Vaithianathan.

‘I love you like a solar panel loves the sun.’ Can climate change poetry save Earth?

Love in the Times of Climate Change, a collaboration between CEEW and Unerase Poetry, wants to make the dialogue around climate change accessible to everyone.

Insect poop is turning parts of Taj Mahal green, again. Environmentalists say root cause is ‘dying Yamuna’

Yamuna's sewage-filled waters are breeding ground of Chironomus Calligraphus. Males exhibit swarming behaviour while mating, and deposit their droppings on monument's pearly white surface.

SubscriberWrites: Concrete steps needed to combat climate change, pollution in NCR

Aggressive afforestation, cleaning up of water bodies are some of the measures need to change the dialogue, writes SN Prasad.

Bonobos to Chimps, what our closest relatives tell us about humans

One argument scientists have made is that warlike tendencies are as hardwired in us as they are in chimpanzees.

On Camera

RSS betrayed Jayaprakash Narayan. He failed to de-communalise it, died a broken man

Today, JP’s dream of ‘total revolution’ lies shattered beyond recognition. His ‘devil’s bargain’ with the 'forces of evil' cost India dearly.

60% increase in India’s carbon emissions by 2050, coal to remain top energy source: BP Energy Outlook

The country will account for 12 percent of global energy demand by 2050 from 7 percent in 2023, adds BP report.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.