By Vishal Gulati Madrid, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) India will highlight its achievements in climate action during the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) negotiations in the Spanish capital on Monday. This comes as part of…
Madrid, Dec 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) The climate crisis is threatening to roll back progress on child rights without sufficient urgent investment in solutions that benefit the most vulnerable children, the Unicef said on Saturday as the…
Madrid, Dec 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg said in Madrid that young people will do everything possible so the climate crisis “cannot be ignored”. Speaking at a press conference in the Spanish capital…
Kolkata, Dec 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Four persons were arrested from north Kolkata for possessing six Pangolin scales for the purpose of illegal trading, the police said on Friday. Pangolin is enlisted as an endangered species as…
Madrid, Dec 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sea levels are rising faster and higher than previously expected. Long-term sea level rise will vary greatly depending on emissions, but could reach nearly four meters by 2300 if emissions are…
New Delhi, Dec 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Uttar Pradesh government and authorities concerned to grant environmental clearances (ECs) for projects such as drinking water supply, sewerage and drainage system at…
Panaji, Dec 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Opposition parties, a breakaway RSS unit and local green NGOs on Friday gave a December 25 or Christmas deadline to the state and Central governments to take steps for safeguarding Goa’s…
New Delhi, Dec 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday informed the Parliament that India is among the world’s two-three countries where green cover has increased and it has grown by 13,000 square…
New York, Dec 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Reductions in air pollution yielded fast and dramatic impacts on health-outcomes, as well as decreases in all-cause morbidity, a new study suggests. The study, published in the journal Annals of…
New Delhi, Dec 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The air quality of the national capital remains ‘very poor’ for the third consecutive day on Friday and was likely to further deteriorate to the ‘severe’ category in some parts…
New Delhi, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka could follow in the footsteps of Gujarat and Chhattisgarh to declare a ‘no new coal’ policy, a new analysis said on Thursday. This implies these…
Wellington, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Air New Zealand has begun serving coffee in vanilla-flavoured edible cups in an attempt to eliminate waste generated by the eight million disposable cups the flag carrier uses each year. “It…
Colombo, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sri Lanka’s new interim government will launch green projects in the island country as part of a mega beautification programme to maintain the ecosystem, parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa said on Thursday. With…
New Delhi, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The air quality of the national capital remained ‘very poor’ for the second consecutive day on Thursday and is likely to further deteriorate to ‘severe’ category in some parts of…
Guwahati, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Assam government is launching anti-depredation squads across 15 major man-elephant conflict districts in order to mitigate the problem and to ensure safety. The squads will be formally launched on Thursday…
Itanagar, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Voicing concern over the reported decrease in the area of wetlands in Arunachal Pradesh in the last ten years, Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Wednesday stressed on the need for conservation…
Chandigarh, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Hinduja Group on Wednesday offered to help Punjab in addressing the stubble burning problem by lifting all the paddy straw from the fields for use in ethanol plants. The offer…
Chennai, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) South Korean automotive giant Hyundai Motor Company on Wednesday announced it aims to electrify most of its new models in emerging markets like India by 2035. Announcing its ‘Strategy 2025’ global…
Madrid, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) The escalating consequences of climate change are now hitting both rich and poor countries, a report published on Wednesday said. India was ranked fifth vulnerable globally. The Climate Risk Index 2020,…
Chandigarh, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) To combat the growing problem of environmental pollution, the Punjab government has partnered with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to design a public-private pilot project on shared, clean and electric mobility,…