Chetan Chauhan

Protests have acquired intensity at different times, in different geographies, in different contexts, and had different outcomes

India is now the fourth-largest emitter after China, United States and the European Union, and as per IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report released on August 9, it will be among the most severely affected countries

Net zero is the most hotly debated proposal for Glasgow climate conference as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that achieving net zero by 2050 was necessary to keep global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees to pre-industrial level by the end of 2100

Most of the increase in cyber crimes came from states such as Telangana and Maharashtra while cases from the top 20 major cities rose by only 0.8%, suggesting more people were being targeted in smaller cities.

The food industry wants the label to be a guideline informing the consumer about the quantity of salt, sugar, sodium and fats in the packet without giving a health warning, saying that the aim should be to enable consumers to make an informed decision and not discourage consumption of packaged food.

The FSSAI has taken close to eight years to reach this stage as industry had been reluctant to have front of package food safety labels, implemented in some other countries such as Brazil and Chile, clearly stating if the product is healthy for people or not

Around 29% of India’s geographic area is undergoing a spell of dry weather, two-thirds of the way through the country’s monsoon, which was deficient by 9% at the end of August, according to the drought tracker of the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, released on Monday

More than 680 people have died since June 1, when the monsoon officially arrived in the country

While large-scale flooding displaced thousands of people in Assam, Bihar and some parts of West Bengal, landslides triggered by heavy rain continued to wreak havoc in parts of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh

The ministry also said that 35%, or 425, of the total 1,222 Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants sanctioned by the Centre since October 2020 have become operational so far.

The idea of net zero emissions has got a lot of traction among global climate negotiators over the last year and some agreement on it is expected at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November. All major economies have announced net zero targets

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday came out with its sixth assessment report on the science of climate change based on the review of over 14,000 published papers by 234 scientists across the world

A senior environment ministry official, who has been part of the climate negotiating team for long, said the IPCC report will not alter India’s climate negotiating strategy.

The Centre announced new plants will be set up across the country after the April-May peak of Covid-19 triggered an unprecedented shortage of medical oxygen, with reports suggesting there may have been hundreds of deaths nationwide during this period because the gas was in short supply.

Forty-one per cent of the total Covid-19 deaths in April and May in India came from Maharashtra, Karnataka and Delhi, according to the data shared by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) with HT in reply to a Right To Information application.

Four out of 10 deaths in India during April and May 2021 came from Maharashtra, Karnataka and Delhi, the three states that recorded the highest deaths in this period. Experts said the second wave signs were visible in March when deaths started rising.

New Delhi: India and China are among the five countries most vulnerable to climate change and air pollution, a first- of-its-kind research assessing the combined risks of the two factors said on Thursday

Scientists at the University of Notre Dame found a “strong and statistically significant” link between the two environmental hazards and said the countries which are at most risk of climate change are also the countries with highest risks of toxic pollution.

This came days after the draft of the Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilization and Welfare) Bill was put up on the website of the Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission inviting suggestions from the public by July 19

The slowing down of monsoon could lead to a dip in agriculture production at a time when economic indicators are weak and the pandemic is yet to be controlled. This will clearly have livelihood implications

A low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal is likely to hasten the progress of the monsoon, experts say.

Even as India battles these twin crises, the key to the future lies in ecosystem restoration — the theme for this year’s World Environment Day

Former West Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay on Thursday replied to the Centre’s notice issued to him for skipping Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s May 28 meeting on Cyclone Yaas. The notice has divided opinion on whether the Centre could have sent it

The introduction of cheetahs in MP’s Kuno Palpur wildlife reserve and cyclone Tauktae hitting Gujarat’s Gir National Park, the country’s only wild home for lions, has triggered a ferocious debate among conservation experts on whether Kuno should get cheetahs from Africa or lions from Gir

The health ministry data on vaccination shows that on average two million doses are being administered daily.

Economists, however, questioned why the government couldn’t expand the public distribution system (PDS) to help more people hit hard by the second wave of the pandemic.

New Delhi: India registered the highest food grain stock since 2016 this month due to record procurement of wheat from Punjab and Haryana, according to food ministry data

During the second wave of Covid-19 infections, which has devastated patients and families across India, there is a somewhat unlikely institution that has been active, even proactive, in the realm of Covid management — India’s various high courts

These inferences are based on health ministry’s Covid and vaccination data for May 15 and population projections for 2021 by the Census Commissioner of India, and come at the time when some state governments are being accused of hiding actual Covid deaths