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Microplastics: are they poisoning crops and jeopardising food production?

New Delhi, March 20 -- Microplastics are hindering photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert energy from the sun into the fruit and vegetables we eat. This threatens massive losses in crop a... Read More


US tariffs on drugs and the end of WTO

New Delhi, March 20 -- US President Donald Trump's shock decision to impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals from April has put the spotlight on one of the most worrisome problems in international commerce-... Read More


Warming causing CO2 levels highest in the past 8,00,000 years: WMO

India, March 19 -- Global warming causing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are now the highest that they have been in the last 8,00,000 years, according to the State of Climate 2024 report published by Wor... Read More


Kolkata coronavirus patient recovering in hospital had no travel history

India, March 19 -- A woman in her mid-forties who was hospitalised with a coronavirus infection in Kolkata will be released soon, hospital authorities informed Kolkata Municipal Corporation's health d... Read More


Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 18, 2025)

India, March 19 -- Auroville Township Project The Supreme Court (SC) set aside the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order on Auroville Township Project in Puducherry on March 17, 2025. NGT had restrained... Read More


As told to Parliament (March 18, 2025): Climate change to lead to higher soil erosion, salinity, shows ICAR data

India, March 19 -- Both Kharif and Rabi rainfall are expected to increase in the coming years due to climate change, leading to higher rates of soil erosion, stated by Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union min... Read More


Plastic pollution killing seabirds: Study links ingestion to multi-organ failure, brain damage

India, March 19 -- Plastic pollution is causing a health crisis in seabirds, according to a new study. which found that ingesting plastic causes neurodegeneration similar to Alzheimer's in chicks as y... Read More


India records earliest heatwave and warm nights in 2025

India, March 19 -- With temperatures rising in the country, the heatwaves arrived in February and warm nights too have been recorded far earlier than in the last few years. On February 25, 2025, Goa... Read More


World Economic Forum initiative cut carbon emissions by over 140,000 tonnes in 2023-2024

India, March 19 -- A report from the World Economic Forum's UpLink initiative has detailed the environmental and economic impacts of early-stage innovators working on sustainability solutions. The Ann... Read More


Where do we come from? Modern humans likely descended from two ancient populations

New Delhi, March 19 -- New research challenges the idea that modern humans emerged from a single population, suggesting instead that our genetic lineage traces back to two ancient groups that intermin... Read More