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Childhood cancer care forces more than 32,000 low-income families to travel to cities each year

India, Sept. 16 -- Cancer treatment for children in India is concentrated in large cities, forcing thousands of poorer families to live far from home, often in unsafe and unhygienic conditions. Nearly... Read More


Ozone hole reaches notable threshold early again as area increases above average in 2026: Copernicus

India, Sept. 16 -- The 2026 Antarctic ozone hole has surpassed 15 million km2 earlier than average and expanded to about 25 million km2 by mid-September, roughly 5 million km2 above the seasonal norm,... Read More


Repair delayed

India, Sept. 16 -- There is a reason the Montreal Protocol is considered a rarity. Not only did the 1987 multilateral agreement get universal ratification, measures implemented under it have massively... Read More


Derailed from the start

India, Sept. 16 -- Drought has emerged as a planetary environmental crisis. Long experienced as episodic and locally occurring, recent trends show that in a changed climate and warming planet, drought... Read More


The AI Slowdown debate is back - Here is why

India, Sept. 16 -- AI companies are discovering something increasingly difficult to predict: what their own AI systems might do when given enough autonomy. From AI agents compromising platforms and co... Read More


Women in West Bank fear violence and arrest amid rising restrictions: UN

India, Sept. 15 -- Women and girls in the occupied West Bank face rising fear of violence, arrest and displacement, according to UN Women. The agency estimates that one in eight households in the occ... Read More


BRICS 2026: Key takeaways from the New Delhi Declaration

India, Sept. 14 -- BRICS has wrapped up its 18th summit in New Delhi. But beyond the handshakes and headlines, what did the grouping actually agree on? From pushing back against carbon border measure... Read More


The Sunita Narain Show: What is India's unfinished tiger agenda?

India, Sept. 13 -- Twenty years ago, the tiger population in India was gravely threatened. The last tiger had disappeared from the Sariska National Park. The pug marks of tigers were being counted and... Read More


BRICS Summit foregrounds clean tech cooperation, value addition: CSE

India, Sept. 13 -- The 18th BRICS Summit, underway in New Delhi, has issued a Declaration which covers a wide range of climate issues - from clean technology to forests - and reaffirms the group's com... Read More


Almost half of migratory bird species now in decline: State of the World's Birds

India, Sept. 13 -- Nearly half of the world's migratory bird species are in decline and one in nine faces extinction, according to BirdLife International's latest State of the World's Birds report. T... Read More