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World Orangutan Day 2025: When Charles met Jenny

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Summary World Orangutan Day highlights the conservation of orangutans, focusing on threats like habitat destruction. Charles Darwin's encounters with an orangutan named Jenny in... Read More


World Humanitarian Day 2025: Let us achieve climate justice through humanitarian actions

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Summary World Humanitarian Day 2025 emphasizes the urgent need for climate justice through global solidarity and local empowerment. As Brazil prepares for COP30, the focus is on... Read More


Year-round snow leopard presence and breeding activity confirmed in Jammu and Kashmir

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Snow leopards are found and breed all year-round in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, a landmark, three-year camera trapping study conducted by the Nature Conservation Fo... Read More


Child malnutrition is a sign of conflict to come: Nigerian study links climate change, food and violence

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Summary A Nigerian study reveals that climate change indirectly fuels violent conflict through child malnutrition. Rising temperatures lead to food insecurity, causing malnutrit... Read More


Overcoming land constraints for powering India's solar energy future

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Solar energy has emerged as a central pillar of India's clean energy strategy. With the target of 500 GW of non-fossil electricity capacity by 2030, solar energy is expected to p... Read More


Daily Heat Tracker: Highest jump of 5 degrees C recorded by Bhopal

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Note: Data for capital cities of 27 states (data not available for Goa) and 8 union territories. In certain states where data is not available for the capital city, data for one ... Read More


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

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Summary Telangana to file Kancha Gachibowli forest restoration plan in 6 weeks; tree felling halted. An SIT report on NOIDA's land compensation issues led to SC directives for t... Read More


Nepal declared free of rubella as a public health problem: WHO

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Summary Rubella eliminated: WHO declares Nepal free of rubella as a public health problem (2025). Immunisation coverage: Over 95% of children received at least one dose of rubel... Read More


Blighted beyul: The Himalayas, under attack from the forces of 'development', have always been a 'scared geography' for Buddhists

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Disaster season is once again in upon the Himalayas. Monsoon 2025 has again caused havoc across the mountain range, especially in its western section. Within a span of days, Sera... Read More


Africa's top climate change challenges: A fairer deal on phasing out fossil fuels and mobilising funds

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Nearly 600 million people across the African continent still lack access to electricity. Close to one billion rely on traditional biofuels for cooking. Africa is also very vulner... Read More