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Ozone level highs dampen air pollution lows

30 Jun 2020

Lower levels of suspended particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels during the lockdown cleared air quality across India. But a new analysis of 22 mega and metropolitan cities...

Vector-borne diseases’ threat worsens situation

23 Jun 2020

The monsoon season has hit India and several states have been lashed by torrential yet seasonal rain. A good monsoon is always the harbinger of hope for thousands of farmers...

India’s dismal environmental performance

17 Jun 2020

India comes in almost at the bottom of the global rankings at 168th place worldwide according to the 12th edition of the Environment Performance Index (EPI 2020) released by...

Topsy-turvy and troubling weather patterns

02 Jun 2020

Scorching heat waves, then deafening thunderstorms – India’s weather woes continue even as the country is attempting to open up after a series of lockdowns. While many parts of northwest,...

COVID-19, super cyclone, and now locusts!

26 May 2020

India is bracing for a desert locust invasion. Already battling the coronavirus pandemic and the devastation wreaked by cyclone Amphan, this threat could have disastrous consequences to agriculture and to...

COVID-19 puts Indian polar research in quarantine

19 May 2020

Quarantine and lockdown effects have spread their tentacles as far as the Polar Regions. India’s scientific expeditions to the Poles have either been put on hold or are at a...

Disaster management in vulnerable times

12 May 2020

The United Nations has pointed out that the pandemic has revealed the vulnerability of our global systems when it comes to environmental, health and economic issues. It has also...

High cyclone frequency puts IMD in a bind

06 May 2020

Before the pandemic hit, sudden natural weather disasters had become the norm in India, as elsewhere in the world, in the past few years. Even as the lockdown has given...

Natural sightings soar under quarantine

28 Apr 2020

Observations from the natural world to citizen science platforms have soared during the quarantine. Platforms such as eBird and iNaturalist depend on public contribution of data for scientific research and...

Nature advances as humans retreat

08 Apr 2020

As governments and hundreds and thousands of people battle the coronavirus pandemic, cleaner air, empty streets and less human interference seems to have broken nature’s shackles! Earlier this week,...

Meena Janardhan

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

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