The devastating landslide in Kerala’s Munnar region signals the dire need for ramping up disaster alert systems while enhancing climate change mitigation efforts, Jinoy Jose P reports

India is the world’s largest producer of bananas, but a minor exporter. The tide is turning in its favour, thanks largely to a global pest attack. Vishwanath Kulkarni reports

The PM’s call to become a world beater in toys has created a buzz around Gujarat’s clock town Morbi. But there’s the Chinese competition to deal with.

Three years after its inception, compliance with GST procedures remains a headache for exporters, job workers and all MSMEs. BusinessLine reports

The recent Chennai Rains, one marked by the advent of the north east monsoon on October 15, might not have followed the original script, the one penned by weather watching professionals, but it has taken a predictable course in one sense: throwing birds off course. During this period, two birders had unlikely visitors in their neck of the woods — a chestnut winged cuckoo in Pallikaranai and a lesser frigate bird in Perambur

The spotting of the rare bird and its photograph were uploaded on eBird platform, where an entry was made after verification. The bird has been spotted a few times in Kerala

Environmental organisations in Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam are leading citizen science projects, transforming individual observations into contributors to science

Around 2,000 of the mystery black balls had washed onto beaches across Sydney since October 15

A Darjeeling-based company is transporting basalt dust from Jharkhand and using it as an organic fertiliser to enrich soil and accelerate carbon sequestration. It has used about 500 tonnes of dust.

As the world grapples with plummeting levels of biodiversity, Colombia is hosting two weeks of meetings for the United Nations Biodiversity Conference

Governments are trying to adopt high-performance buildings through policies and financing mechanisms that promote energy efficiency, resource management, and carbon neutrality. India has made significant progress through initiatives under its National Action Plan on Climate Change

The air quality is predicted to be in the ‘very poor’ category for the next six days, according to the Central government’s Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi

The COP16 talks are focusing on how genetic digital information is used and do not touch on the actual samples and specimens.

Numerically specifying the targets is a precursor to the setting up of a ‘compliance’ carbon market. This means that companies have to ensure that their carbon emissions intensity is within the specified limit or they must ‘buy’ credits from organisations that have surplus credits.

Bird calls and gibbon duets are not uncommon in Guwahati, but the mounting challenges of urbanisation are taking a toll on the region’s biodiversity

The UN body is facing budget shortfall of at least €57 million, threatening its ability to conduct climate negotiations and implement agreements

Doctors in Delhi are advising residents to wear N95 masks, get vaccinated and opt for work-from-home if possible, if they can’t leave the city, as the national capital battles deteriorating air quality

Current pledges can cut emissions by 2.6%, far from the 43% scientists say is necessary to ward off catastrophic warming

Belagavi-based ecologist K.S. Gopi Sundar talks about his latest study and what he has learnt from his research about the coexistence of birds with humans in India

The trio landed in the custody of the Forest Department staff, who patrolled Kadukaimarathittu area falling under the Kottur section of Pollachi forest range of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve

Indian officials at the convention in Colombia (COP-16) say international finance will be necessary to meet goals

Nearly 200 countries convened in the city of Cali, aiming to implement the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework agreement

The issue had been a bone of contention at the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

What is a heatwave condition? Why are Indian cities, towns and villages vulnerable both in the hills and the plains? Will notifying it as a State-specific disaster help? Why is it important to have a focused management plan in place?

The Kalka–Shimla railway is a narrow-gauge railway in Himachal Pradesh, which traverses a mostly-mountainous route from Kalka to Shimla

This is the first time such a high number of tigers has been officially reported missing from Ranthambore in a year

Late snowfall on iconic Mt. Fuji sparks climate change concerns, breaking records and delaying official confirmation

The Chhattisgarh State Scheduled Tribe Commission found that the clearance was obtained using forged documents

Climate experts anxious about American commitment to carbon mitigation efforts, particularly the Trump campaign’s espousal for fracking and distrust of scientific consensus on the impacts of greenhouse gas warming

Scientists said 2024 will also be the first year in which the planet is more than 1.5C hotter than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale.

Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Kirti Vardhan Singh will lead the Indian delegation at the high-level segment on November 18-19

Two weeks after the worst floods in Spain’s modern history, its national weather service issued an alert for torrential rains in the same area

BJP’s third term pledges support for space, AI and warehousing; Next-generation reforms agenda to touch all factors of production including digital infrastructure

The Centre’s new FDI policy in the space sector promotes international investments, technology transfers, and collaborative research opportunities

The process will be unique to the country and the detailed project report so prepared “is under – scrutiny” across ministries, a senior government official aware of the discussions, told businessline.  

The drug, marketed as Hamsyl – Junior will now be available in a 1500 IU pack, and is priced at ₹Rs 20,970, a company official told businessline

Dr Swati Mohan, the Indian-born NASA engineer, whose historic words, “touchdown confirmed”, announced to the world the successful landing of the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars on February 18, 2021

Chennai-based Agnikul Cosmos to test-fire Agnibaan rocket with 3D printed engine, aiming for suborbital flight trajectory control

IIT Madras’ Centre for Computational Brain Research is receiving support from Nvidia

ISRO conducted successful RLV-LEX-02 experiment demonstrating autonomous landing capabilities from high altitudes, marking progress in space technology

Shakti and Shiva are comprised of stars with similar chemical compositions, formed 12-13 billion years ago, and each structure has a mass about 10 million times greater than our sun

This collaboration aims to establish accelerator programs that enhance India’s Aviation, Space, and Defence ecosystem

Many countries are watching Russia build a 1,200 MW fast breeder as a possible template for themselves

In his book “Own Your Body,” Dr Shiv Sarin advocates for educating these professionals to look for signs like black lines, skin tags, and waist-to-hip ratios, which could indicate underlying health issues

The formulations, based on granular lime and gypsum, address soil pH issues and deliver beneficial microorganisms