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Frame requisite guidelines for plywood industries: NGT tells environment ministry

New Delhi, May 29 -- The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on May 27, 2025, directed the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) to frame requisite guidelines for plywood indust... Read More


Fires burned 5 times more tropical primary forest in 2024 than in 2023

New Delhi, May 22 -- Driven largely by massive fires, the tropics lost 6.7 million hectares of primary rainforest in 2024. This record-breaking tropical forest loss seen in 2024 is more than any other... Read More


NOAA to retire its public database meant to keep track of costliest climate change-related disasters

New Delhi, May 14 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on May 8, 2025, that it will cease tracking the financial impact of weather events linked to climate change, i... Read More


Ant smuggling in Kenya: Four sentenced to 12 months in prison or $7,700 fine

New Delhi, May 9 -- Four men in Kenya face a year in prison or $7,700 fine for trying to smuggle thousands of live giant African harvester queen ants (Messor cephalotes) out of the country. The cour... Read More


Kenya court hears unusual case involving illegal trafficking of live ants

New Delhi, April 24 -- A court in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, has drawn international attention as it presides over a case involving the illegal trafficking of live ants. On April 15, 2025, two Be... Read More


About 242 million hectares of world's agricultural land contaminated by toxic heavy metal pollution: Study

New Delhi, April 23 -- A new study published in Science on April 17, 2025, has revealed that soil pollution from toxic heavy metals and metalloids is significantly reducing crop yields and contaminati... Read More


Study links climate change to rising arsenic levels in rice, increasing health risks

New Delhi, April 17 -- Warmer temperatures and higher carbon dioxide levels could increase arsenic concentrations in rice, according to a new study published in Lancet Planetary Health on April 16, 20... Read More