Environment & Sustainability

  Glacier Collapse Triggers Catastrophe The glacier collapse triggered a huge release of water, mud, rock and ice, that thundered down valleys and swept down the Lhende Khola, Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers. The speed at which the glacier outburst moved was amazing.

Data centres house the hardware required to store, process and distribute data that connects 5.3 billion people to the internet, through about 30 billion digital devices including the ubiquitous smart phones. Though India is nowhere close to the 4,619 data centres that

The Heat Is Reshaping Europe: Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for air conditioning in schools, hospitals and offices in London. In Bonn, Germany, the mercury has risen to 39°C and it is the same in capital Berlin as in cities and towns

Temperatures in Indian cities have been rising to record levels over the past couple of decades and the blame can’t be put either on global warming or climate change. The culprit is a phenomenon that has been called athe ‘Urban Heat Island’

Sariska’s Fall: The Scandal That Exposed India’s Conservation Failures When the extinction of tigers at Sariska was officially acknowledged in 2005, the government of the day swung into action and appointed a five-member task force, to investigate the reasons for the extinction

The latest controversy was sparked off in November 2025, when a government proposal to limit the definition of the range to only hills more than 100 metres high received the endorsement of the Supreme Court. Environmentalists soon raised a clamour for the

Thousands of fish surfaced dead in the Yamuna, at Burari, Delhi, in the early summer of 2025, just weeks before the monsoon. The scale of the die-off, widely reported by the media, left little doubt that it was the result of human

In 2024, residents of Delhi experienced a series of disruptions due to hazardous air pollution—persistent coughing, reduced visibility from thick smog, school closures, halted construction activities, and restrictions on private vehicle movement.  In a troubling report released on January 6, 2025, the

In Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, south of the Uppanar river estuary, sits the picturesque village of Kudikadu, where the Uppanar backwaters isolate the agrarian hinterlands. Flowing over 24 km, the Uppanar river — a relatively smaller river — empties into the