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Making old buildings energy-efficient can help achieve net-zero goals

New Delhi, March 27 -- Given the global push towards sustainability, buildings play a major role in the efforts towards decarbonisation. They account for 30 percent of global energy consumption and 21... Read More


Wealthy nations owe climate debt to Africa funds that could help cities grow

New Delhi, March 27 -- Wealthy nations fuelled their industrial growth and urbanisation by burning fossil fuels. This was the biggest cause of climate change, which now affects every country in the wo... Read More


Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about by dumping debris into thriving midwater zone

New Delhi, March 27 -- Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet - where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosy... Read More


Is ADB-funded Assam solar park 'green grabbing' indigenous land?

New Delhi, March 27 -- Simson Ingti, a young law graduate who hails from Bokajan in Assam's autonomous hill district of Karbi Anglong, is livid. He has been joined by 300 other protestors at Diphu, th... Read More


Diabetic foot pain: Expert tips on how to cope

New Delhi, March 26 -- An estimated 1 in 10 people worldwide have diabetes. Africa is the region with the fastest growth and it's estimated that the number of people on the continent with diabetes wil... Read More


The pig's dual status in Hinduism as both divine and polluted reveals the contingent nature of sacredness

New Delhi, March 26 -- It was while watching the Kannada film Kantara (2022) that we first contemplated about the contradictory perceptions regarding pigs. Although pigs have had both material and rel... Read More


Heeding the lessons of COVID-19 in the face of avian influenza

New Delhi, March 26 -- Infectious disease outbreaks have a bad habit of piling on at the worst possible times. The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just ... Read More


Pest politics: An artistic lens on problems with human classification of nature

New Delhi, March 26 -- What is a pest? Or rather, who is a pest? And who makes this classification? An ongoing exhibition at Khoj, New Delhi, called Pest Politics explores how human beings have played... Read More


As told to Parliament (March 25, 2025): 37 cross-country vehicles, 9 fuelling stations planned under Green Hydrogen Mission

New Delhi, March 26 -- On February 14, 2024, the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) released scheme guidelines for the execution of pilot projects utilising green hydrogen in the transp... Read More


Extreme weather drove 20% of growth in natural gas & electricity demand in 2024: IEA Report

New Delhi, March 25 -- Extreme weather events, particularly high temperature, significantly impacted energy demand, driving 20 per cent of the growth in both natural gas and electricity demand, and co... Read More