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Climate, land-use change to worsen landslide risk

05 Aug 2026

The Kalladi landslide in Wayanad on July 7, 2026, in the state of Kerala, India, brought back the nightmares of the 2024 Mundakkai-Chooralmala catastrophe, which claimed 298 lives. The...

Rising climate tech funding in India

28 Jul 2026

India’s climate-tech companies have attracted approximately $12.8B and 1583 funded companies, with annual funding rising from about $315M in 2020 to $2.6B in 2025, as per the Tracxn India...

Call for innovations that improve thermal comfort and cooling access

21 Jul 2026

The World Resources Institute (WRI) India and partners had recently launched the ‘Keep Cool Innovation Challenge’, a nationwide call for affordable, scalable, and people‑centred solutions for the country’s most...

Climate-smart city strategies needed, not just more trees

14 Jul 2026

Simply increasing tree cover does not always make cities cooler. In humid urban areas, dense tree canopies can even raise the Heat Index by trapping moisture. This is according...

Unravelling carbon credit trading opportunities

07 Jul 2026

India’s Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) could become an important source of domestic revenue and direct it toward the country’s clean energy transition as it faces a central financing...

Elephant conservation safeguards forests as carbon sinks

30 Jun 2026

The conservation of the endangered Asiatic elephant indirectly helps safeguard India’s forests as powerful carbon stores, according to a new study. Protecting the elephants serves a dual purpose, the...

Green documentary fund launched

23 Jun 2026

One of India’s largest environmental film funds — a $126,000 initiative that will provide grants to three documentary projects — has been launched by the All Living Things Environmental...

Climate change-hit glaciers affect potable water

16 Jun 2026

New research shows glaciers are also active chemical systems and climate warming may be altering not just how much water they release, but also its quality, says a Mongabay-India...

Green steel production could prove cheaper for India

09 Jun 2026

Green-hydrogen-based steel can become cheaper than new blast-furnace steel in India by 2030, driven by globally competitive green hydrogen costs and inflation-proof renewable energy contracts. This is according to...

Fuelled by solar, India’s power capacity to double

02 Jun 2026

India’s power capacity to double to 1121 GW by 2035-36 led by a huge transition to solar energy, according to the Central Electricity Authority (CEA)’s midterm review of the...

Meena Janardhan

Writer/Editor/Consultant. She has over 25 years of experience in the fields of environmental journalism and publishing.

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