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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during the 75th annual U.N. General Assembly, in New York. File

UN, Britain say global climate summit set for December 12

“The answer to our existential crisis is swift, decisive, scaled up action and solidarity among nations,” said Antonio Guterres.

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Supreme Court asks government to respond to plea to ban ART in livestock

Legal Correspondent Artificial Reproduction Technique is cruel and contrary to principles of law, says petition.

Come, hang out with the penguins

Priyadarshini Paitandy Australia’s Phillip Island Nature Parks now brings their live Penguin Parade online. Catch them on The Hindu MetroPlus’ Instagram handle on Friday

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Indian climate activist Archana Soreng named by UN chief to new advisory group

PTI ‘Our ancestors have been protecting the forest and nature over the ages. Now onus on us to be the front runners in combating the climate crisis’, says Archana Soreng

Siliguri: Tigress Sheela with her three new born cubs at Bengal Safari in Siliguri, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020.

Tigress ‘Sheela’ gives birth to 3 cubs in Siliguri’s Bengal Safari park

iSpecial Correspondent The cubs were born in the tiger enclosure around 7 a.m. and they are doing fine, the official said

The extinct Lyall’s wren.

Sunday Quiz: Easy like Sunday morning

Berty Ashley ‘If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror’

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UN, Britain say global climate summit set for December 12

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Supreme Court asks government to respond to plea to ban ART in livestock

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Watch | Kamikatsu: The zero-waste town in Japan

A video on Kamikatsu, Japan’s first zero-waste municipality

Celebrating India's Big Butterfly Month 2020

From virtual walks and workshops to a hunt for our national butterfly, as this month is dedicated to the winged creature

The Danaid Eggfly butterfly is Nature’s great pretender

With attack-based defences practically absent in butterflies, the Danaid Eggfly uses other tactics to avoid being eaten

Stories of the Melghat Forest by a forester

For Prakash Thosre, being posted in the Melghat forest triggered a passion for writing on all that he saw: grass-eating tigers, the bhulan vel climber that makes you lose sense of direction, and mini markets that serve up spicy local food

Coimbatore-based Sitara Karthikeyan wins Young Photographer Award

Coimbatore-based Sitara Karthikeyan’s photograph of a dust bathing elephant won recognition at Nature inFocus Photography Awards

NGT directs CPCB to finalise SOP for restaurants and eateries along highways

The tribunal was hearing a plea filed by Haryana resident Abhay Dahiya and others against illegal dumping and burning of garbage, and discharge of untreated water by various establishments

NGT raps MoEF for not filing report on plea alleging pollution from import of plastic waste

The green panel said there was absence of proper mechanism for plastic waste management, including cheap waste paper and imported hazardous road sweep waste.

NGT directs CPCB to recover fine from Amazon, Flipkart for excessive plastic packaging

The green panel observed that the statutory regulators were not taking coercive measures, including invoking of “polluter pays” principle for enforcing the statutory norms against the e-commerce firms.

A vote for India’s national butterfly

A first-of-its kind online public campaign is underway to choose from a list of seven winged wonders nominated by experts. The butterfly poll will end on October 7

Environment Ministry rejects plea for exemption from forest penalty

Mines Ministry had requested that ‘prospecting and exploring’ in forests be exempted from Forest Conservation Act.

Keeping track of Chennai’s trees

The #FiftyTrees project documents trees that are part of a city’s fibre, so which are the ones for Chennai? The city’s observer shares a few fun facts about her favourites

NGT directs CPCB to lay down guidelines for disposal of cigarette, bidi butts in three months

The NGT had earlier slammed the MoEF for terming cigarette butts as ‘biodegradable’ and directed it to clarify its stand on the issue

When a young Kochi photographer zoomed in on pollution

Kochi school student, Adithyakrishna S Menon’s photograph of polluted wetland wins Nature photography award

The Wandering Glider is a six-legged globetrotter

The vision and aerial prowess of the Wandering Glider dragonfly is an inspiration to drone makers and other air-borne systems

Watch | World's largest rooftop greenhouse opens in Montreal

A video on the world's largest rooftop greenhouse, located in Montreal, Canada

Data | Sea ice extent in Arctic lowest in July since 1979; in Antarctic, it surpassed average level in Sept.

The extent of surface ice that melted in Greenland in August was well above the 1981-2010 average

New climber species found in Western Ghats

JNTBGRI team terms Pothos boyceanus ‘extremely rare’

How African Sahara amplified a drought in Asia

Mineral deposits of caves in Vietnam, point to the end of the Green Sahara

Team alpha Himalayan langurs

The langurs of the mountains behave differently from their lowland cousins, allowing many males in their groups

Kaziranga National Park set to be expanded by 3,053 hectares

Assam govt approves addition of 3,053 hectares in two districts

Climate change likely led to fall of Indus Valley Civilisation, says Study

The analysis used a new mathematical method to study ancient climate patterns in North India over time, providing insights about past climates using indirect observations.

Centre wants review of Delhi High Court order for translation of EIA draft

Official documents provided only in Hindi, English.

Fishing in troubled waters

No amount of restoration will work unless local authorities are made accountable for allowing development on fragile ecosystems, says Nidhi Adlakha

Spot a Blue Pansy butterfly on a periwinkle flower

The Blue Pansy butterfly is just as magnificent as the flower

Learning about the wild with naturalist Santhosh Krishnamoorthy

Santhosh Krishnamoorthy shares his knowledge of the great outdoors with his YouTube channel Frames of Nature

The birds I saw from my Chennai balcony

Purple-rumped sunbirds, coppersmith barbets and even a rare Jacobin cuckoo gather in Ayanavaram. Interested in birdwatching? Just stay home

Now, ready-to-cook organic greens in Chennai’s supermarkets

Nallakeerai’s organic greens now come in ready-to-cook format: they are cleaned, sorted, and delivered packed in banana leaves

Students come up with a DIY kit to save water from RO systems

Students from Shiv Nadar School in Gurugram have addressed water wastage in RO systems with an innovative solution

This firm is making water-saving showers and taps

Innovations from WaterScience look at providing better quality water

Halt Char Dham project, environmentalists petition Modi

Some members furthering an agenda that isn’t in public interest, they say.

Butterflies are migrating early in southern India this year

Change in rainfall pattern and a considerable increase in the number of sunny days could be the main reasons.

Before we blame forest-dwellers for ‘poaching’ during the pandemic, we must recognise our own hypocrisy

Forest communities are being seen as the primary drivers of denudation during lockdown, while we continue to ignore the impacts of fast-tracked environmental clearances for dams and mines

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres slams India for coal subsidies

“Continued support for fossil fuels in so many places around the world is deeply troubling,” he says

Brazil's decision to rope in army to protect Amazon attracts widespread criticism

Operation “Green Brazil 2 appears to be focusing on dozens of small road-and-bridge-building projects that allow exports to flow faster to ports and ease access to protected areas, opening the rainforest to further exploitation.

The Green Bee-eater has beauty and brains

Ask the Green Bee-eater how to catch a bee so it doesn’t sting you

Carbon emissions for 2020 to come down by 8% due to lockdown: Environment Ministry

Under the Paris Agreement, India had pledged to reduce the emissions intensity of GDP by 30-35% by 2030

NGT slams Ministry’s report on clean air programme

MoEF proposes 20-30% reduction of air pollution by 2024

Online art exhibition to protest against draft EIA 2020 notification

The exhibition, in which 140 artists from across India have come together, is being curated by T. A. Sathyapal, former chairman of Kerala Lalitakala Akademy.

Amidst the pandemic, people in Visakhapatnam are making their own Ganesh idols

Avoiding the rush in markets, several residents in the city are turning to DIY idols that are green and sustainable

At least 3 people killed in Northern California wildfires

Dozens of wildfires raging throughout Northern California have now claimed at least three lives, including the first civilian, and threaten tens of

Record melt: Greenland lost 586 billion tonnes of ice in 2019

The massive melt comes after two years when summer ice melt had been minimal.

Project Dolphin generates excitement in West U.P.

Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Project Dolphin on the 74th Independence Day, Bharat Bhushan is excited. Designated as a Ganga Mitra by

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