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Deciphering Super El Niño: What it means for India’s fields, the world’s food bills and everyday life

India’s southwest monsoon closed on September 30 as its weakest in more than a decade, and the weather pattern widely blamed for it is not[…]

The World’s Tallest Dam Is Rising Again — And So Are Warnings About Who and What Gets Displaced

Fifty thousand people are expected to be displaced by the reservoir of Tajikistan’s Rogun Dam, and the Amu Darya River basin — already under significant[…]

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Amazon Doesn’t Know How to Hit Its Own Climate Target — And That’s a Bigger Problem Than It Sounds

Amazon’s chief sustainability officer said something on Tuesday that companies of its size almost never say out loud: the company doesn’t actually know how it’s[…]

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World Rhino Day 2026: Why Climate Change Is Now as Big a Threat to Rhinos as the Poacher’s Bullet

For decades, the story of rhino conservation has been told almost entirely through the lens of poaching — organized crime syndicates, illegal horn markets, and[…]

What Really Caused Nepal’s Deadliest Flood in Decades? A Look Inside the Science

On the morning of August 26, 2026, a chunk of rock and glacier ice roughly 2,000 feet wide sheared off Langtang Lirung, a mountain on[…]

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The US Just Tore Up Its Power Plant Climate Rules — Here’s What That Means for the Planet

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin recently signed a final rule repealing the carbon pollution standards that had governed America’s coal and gas-fired power plants. This is[…]

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India Wants a Data Centre Boom — Without Draining Its Water Table, Says Jitin Prasada

As global tech giants race to build AI infrastructure across India, the government is trying to set the terms of that race before it runs[…]

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Bittu Tabahi Takes His One-Man River Cleanup Mission to the Yamuna

On September 20 — World Cleanup Day — a 21-year-old college student from Madhya Pradesh stepped onto the banks of the Yamuna in Delhi with[…]

A century-old Tasmanian mine is flashing a war warning — and it’s also a story about the environment

There’s a small, wind-battered mine on King Island, off Tasmania’s northwest coast, that has an unusual track record: for more than a hundred years, it[…]

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Who Pays for Plastic? Inside India’s Broken Math on Packaging Waste

Estimates from the 2020-21 Central Pollution Control Board Annual Report indicate that India generates about 160,000 metric tonnes of solid waste each day, of which[…]