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West Asia supply disruption pushes up thermal coal demand and prices globally

India, April 16 -- Prolonged disruption to energy supplies in West Asia is driving a renewed surge in global thermal coal demand and prices, as countries turn to coal to secure power amid constrained ... Read More


Colombia to cull descendants of hippos brought by drug lord Pablo Escobar

India, April 15 -- Colombia's Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development has approved a plan to euthanise hippos descended from four individuals brought by drug lord Pablo Escobar to the coun... Read More


Vegetation in six Himalayan regions shifted upwards due to warming, reduced snow depth

India, April 15 -- Alpine vegetation across six Himalayan regions has shifted upwards between 1999 and 2022. In some areas, the shift is by nearly seven metres a year. Researchers link this shift to... Read More


The Potomac, flowing through Washington DC, is America's most endangered river in 2026: Study

India, April 15 -- American Rivers, a United States conservation organisation working to make every river clean and healthy for people and wildlife, has nominated the Potomac, the river that flows thr... Read More


Fossil power declines after Hormuz disruption as renewables buffer global energy shock

India, April 15 -- As the fragile United States (US)-Iran ceasefire enters its second week, uncertainty continues to hang over both the humanitarian crisis in West Asia and the global energy system, p... Read More


Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 14, 2026)

India, April 15 -- Joint committee clears Growth Centre, Khara, of pollution allegations. Tripura ULBs achieve full waste segregation, zero legacy waste: Report to NGT UP seals illegal borewells at ... Read More


Wildlife trade is driving disease outbreaks globally - raising risk of pathogens reaching humans by 50%, finds study

India, April 15 -- Wildlife trade increases the risk of animal-to-human pathogen transmission by 50%, new study finds Around 41% of traded mammal species share at least one pathogen with humans, comp... Read More


Indiscernible undercurrents in the Himalayan forests are reshaping long-term forest dynamics

India, April 15 -- Himalayan forests are facing a silent regeneration crisis, with seedlings and saplings of key species like Cedrus deodara, Pinus roxburghii and Quercus leucotrichophora failing to e... Read More


Sudan war: Sexual violence against women 'quadruples' in three years, says UN Women

India, April 14 -- UN Women says sexual violence has become a defining feature of Sudan's war Number of survivors needing support has quadrupled since conflict began More than 4.3 million women and ... Read More


Half-hour hailstorms, season-long losses: how climate change is reshaping Kashmir's apple orchards

India, April 14 -- Short, intense hailstorms are increasingly damaging apple orchards across Kashmir Recent storms hit during the critical flowering stage, leaving little chance of crop recovery Stu... Read More