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Climate change related events force exodus

09 Dec 2025

In 2024, more than 11 million people in India were displaced due to natural calamities, a 30% increase from the previous year. Approximately 32,000 displacements were recorded in 2022,...

Indian megacities face sinking risks

02 Dec 2025

India’s largest cities are slowly sinking, according to a new study published in Nature Sustainability and highlighted by a Mongabay-India (MI) report. This is due to excessive groundwater extraction...

Climate opinion across India

25 Nov 2025

The new Climate Opinion Maps for India reveal how Indians’ extreme weather experiences, risk perceptions, and causal beliefs vary across 34 states and union territories and 634 districts. A...

Record high global carbon emissions

18 Nov 2025

India’s emissions are projected to increase by 1.4% and global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 — reaching a record high. This...

Climate resilience and human health

11 Nov 2025

Findings in a report by Lancet underline the urgency of redirecting finance away from health-harming fossil fuels towards strengthening local health systems, adapting to climate change, and pursuing efforts...

Indian climate action investments could create five million jobs

04 Nov 2025

India could create over five million jobs by investing in climate action, according to a new report by Deloitte India in association with the Rainmatter Foundation, titled ‘The State...

New DNA based Indian elephant census

28 Oct 2025

Using DNA-based genetic mark-recapture techniques, scientists from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have pegged India’s elephant population at 22,446 in a recently released elephant population estimation, highlighted by...

India needs early investments in climate resilience

21 Oct 2025

A new study warns that a single major disaster could result in damages worth $11 billion for India, but proactive investments in resilience can reduce these losses more than...

India weighs climate-linked insurance scheme

14 Oct 2025

Initiating talks with local insurers, the Indian government is considering designing a nationwide climate-linked insurance programme aimed at simplifying the payout process after extreme weather events such as heatwaves...

Kerala approves state-wide environmental, social, and governance policy

07 Oct 2025

The Indian state of Kerala recently announced a state-wide environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policy, making it the first Indian state to formally embed ESG principles into its investment...

Meena Janardhan

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

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