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India’s better energy path using cheap electrotech

A recent report from the think tank Ember says that cheap electrotech is enabling India to industrialize without the long fossil detour taken by China and the West. This...

Focussing on small and modular nuclear reactors

20 Jan 2026

As part of India’s long-term push towards nuclear and renewable energy, there has been a lot of focus on small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). A key highlight of the...

Structural shifts in India’s power sector

13 Jan 2026

The Indian Central Electricity Authority’s (CEA) recently released its All India Electricity Statistics-General Review 2025 report. As an analysis by the Down To Earth (DTE) magazine highlights, India’s electricity...

Redefining children’s lives, rights, and opportunities

06 Jan 2026

As per UNICEF’s ‘State of the World’s Children 2024’ report released on World Children’s Day, November 20, India is projected to house 350 million children by 2050, accounting for...

Indirect PM2.5 emissions in India largely chemically formed

30 Dec 2025

An analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) states that a large share of India’s PM2.5 pollution is not emitted directly but is chemically...

Indian government official receives UNEP award

23 Dec 2025

Indian pioneer in sustainable cooling and ecosystem restoration, Ms Supriya Sahu, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu, has been honoured as a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) ‘Champion of...

Global management of wildfires

16 Dec 2025

India’s resolution on ‘Strengthening the Global Management of Wildfires’ was adopted last week at the Seventh Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) in Nairobi, Kenya. The resolution,...

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...

Meena Janardhan

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

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