Most climate models have claimed that monsoon months will cause extreme rainfall events that will gradually increase. During a press conference, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) director professor Ravi Shankar Nanjundiah claimed that increased and intense rainfall occurrences during monsoon will be seen. The
2021 has become the record-breaking year for turtle egg collection in Mandapam Wildlife Range, Tamil Nadu. Mandapam is a panchayat town located in Ramanathapuram district, where fishing is the main occupation of residents. Despite this fact, Mandapam Wildlife Range collected 19,667 Olive Ridley eggs and
Lightning strikes have killed nearly 147 people in just ten days in Bihar, leading to a surge in deaths from climate change-fueled lightning strikes. It is reported that climate change has sparked more lightning strikes across the world in the past decade or so. In
NTPC is India’s largest energy company that aims to accelerate power development in the nation. A Centre-owned electric utility company, NTPC is going to build India’s largest solar park of 4.75 gigawatts (GW) at Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. The solar park will also generate
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) recently approved India’s 52nd tiger sanctuary. After getting the Centre’s affirmation for the establishment of the Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve (RVTR), the Rajasthan government is planning to connect three of its tiger reserves via a wildlife
Man-animal conflicts have been rising across Jammu and Kashmir, in which nearly 200 people were killed and over 2,000 were injured since 2011. Despite the efforts of the department of wildlife protection, the conflicts between humans and animals have escalated in the Himalayan region. The
With the rising global temperatures, the melting of glaciers comes as no surprise. Yet again, a recent study has conveyed the threats of continued glacier melt in the Himalayan Karakoram region, which could drastically affect over a billion people. Water volume and flow in Himalayan
With the arrival of the monsoon each year, heavy rains cause flash flooding in several Indian states. The recent heavy rains have caused floods in multiple states forcing people to seek refuge elsewhere. After recent heavy rains in states including Bihar, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Odisha,
The state forest department of Ahmedabad has begun cutting down around 30-40 lakh fallen trees in Gir Forest uprooted by cyclone Tauktae and pose a threat to species like Asiatic lions. The cyclone was bigger than the one in 1982, where nearly 28 lakh trees
The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) researchers have invented a better way to manage the water crisis through management policies and solve the water scarcity problem in India through ‘Virtual Water Flow’. In a study, the researchers used ecological economies to understand the socio-political