India at UNCCD COP17: Inside the Country’s Pitch to Restore 26 Million Hectares of Degraded Land
Every two years, the countries that signed the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) gather to compare notes on one […]
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Chennai Is Getting India’s First “Ring-Main” Water System — Built With a $230 Million Climate Loan
Chennai’s relationship with water has been defined by extremes. In 2019, the city made international headlines when its reservoirs ran
India Just Mapped Four Decades of Deep-Sea Research Into One Report — Here’s What Lives Down There
Most of what gets said about India’s “Blue Economy” is about the surface — coastal fisheries, ports, shipping, tourism. What’s
Delhi-NCR Just Put an Expiry Date on Diesel Delivery Vans
Light goods vehicles — the small vans and pickups that keep e-commerce warehouses, courier networks and last-mile grocery delivery running
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A 35-Acre Garbage Mountain in Karnataka Just Became a Forest
For decades, the Yakalaspura dumpsite on the edge of Raichur, Karnataka, was the kind of place people drove past quickly
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India Hosted the BRICS Environment Ministers — and They Left With Four New Rulebooks for a Warming World
For two days in New Delhi, delegations from Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, the UAE and
India Just Published Its First Guide to Grasslands — Because for Decades, We Called Them “Wasteland”
For most of modern India’s administrative history, if a piece of land had no trees on it, it was written
Seven Years, 12.68 Crore Taps: How the Jal Jeevan Mission Rewired Rural India’s Relationship with Water
Seven years ago, if you lived in rural India, the odds were roughly five to one that your home did
India’s Ship Recycling Industry Just Became the World’s Biggest — Five Years Ahead of Schedule
There is a version of the circular economy that rarely makes it into the glossy sustainability reports: the business of