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Climate change accounts for just 3.3% of Indian parliamentary questions over the past decade: Study

A comprehensive new report published in September 2026 reveals that climate change has remained a marginal concern in the Indian Parliament despite the country's growing vulnerability to extreme weather...

Climate Change May Increase Mortality Rate by 6 Times Due to Excess Heat: Lancet Study

The study said rise in night heat events will nearly double by 2090, from 20.4 degrees Celsius to 39.7 degrees Celsius across 28 cities from East Asia, increasing the burden of disease due to sleep disruption.

Swaraj India decries MoEFCC’s Forest Conservation Rules 2022 notification

Experts voice concern that the new rules will completely disregard Gram Sabha, Tribal and Forest dwellers’ consent during developmental project

Floods wreak havoc in Assam’s Barak valley

Floods overwhelm people of northeast India, but is the Indian media more interested in reporting on Shiv Sena MLAs in Assam

Dhinkia: Three more anti-Jindal activists arrested by the police!

Villagers approach the police to complain against the series of arrest and demand a compensation of ₹ 40 lakh

Chhattisgarh gov’t halts three Hasdeo Arand mining projects

Activists demand that the projects be scrapped altogether

New Normal: Increasing incidents of Industrial Accidents, Fire, Blasts & workplace disasters

Dilution of all environmental protection regulations, assiduously fought for coupled with an utter lack of transparency makes Indian workers completely vulnerable, Gujarat leads the way

Scrap mining projects in Hasdeo forests: Friends of Hasdeo Aranya

Rights groups and invested experts discuss the Hasdeo mining project controversy in Chhattisgarh

SC sets aside NGT order shutting down factories operating without Environmental Clearance

Does this set a harmful precedent where manufacturing units can be established without following procedure and then be allowed to continue operating due to economic concerns?

Proposed K-Rail project to wreck Kerala’s fragile ecology

EIA report full of holes, gov’t pushing project through without answering key questions about land acquisition, rehabilitation and deforestation

Manipur HC reaffirms stay on development projects around Loktak Lake

The court directed authorities to address the deficiencies in the Integrated Management Plan for Loktak lake, including the lack of a “Brief Document” as required by the Wetland Rules, 2017

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