Kochi: India ranked third in renewable energy installations in 2021, after China and Russia, according to a global status...
Jun 17, 2022
In Eight Years of Modi’s Rule, Eight Hits and Misses by the Health Ministry
New Delhi: When the Narendra Modi-led Union government marked eight years in office in May, its various ministries launched...
Jun 15, 2022
Air Pollution Cuts Indians’ Life Expectancy By 5 Years: Air Quality Life Index
Kochi: Air pollution can cost Indians five years of their lives. In north India, it cuts life expectancy even...
Jun 14, 2022
WHO Panel Studying Origins of SARS-CoV-2 Now Says Lab Leak Theory Can’t be Ruled Out
New Delhi: A World Health Organisation (WHO) advisory group has now suggested the possibility that the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2,...
Jun 10, 2022
India Calls Environment Index ‘Unscientific’; ‘Rankings Based on Performance,’ Says Lead Author
Kochi: India ranked lowest – 180 – in the recently released Environment Performance Index (EPI), 2022, which lists countries...
Jun 09, 2022
Aravalli: As NGT Pulls Up Govts for Illegal Mining, What Is Preventing Conservation?
Kochi: The Aravallis – one of the world’s oldest hill ranges – lie just 40 kilometres southwest of Delhi....
Jun 08, 2022
No Rest for the Weary: WHO Report Says India Undercounted COVID Deaths by 10x
India’s COVID-19 death toll is 9.8-times its official tally, and the country is estimated to have had the...
Jun 05, 2022
Heat, Erosion, Climate Action Failure: Figures Tell Worrying Tales of State of India’s Environment
Kochi: Numbers tell several worrying tales in ‘State of India’s Environment: In Figures’, a report published by the Centre...
Jun 03, 2022
‘No Need to Stockpile Vaccines, Drugs’ Says NIV Head as India Issues Monkeypox Guidelines
New Delhi: Twenty four days after the first case of monkeypox was confirmed during the current outbreak in the...
Jun 01, 2022
‘Reject Clearance for Etalin Dam in Arunachal Pradesh,’ Conservationists Urge Govt Again
Kochi: Conservationists have urged the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) under the Union environment ministry to “unanimously reject” clearance for...
May 30, 2022