COP 30: India global topper in greenhouse gas emission rise during 2023-24: UN report
India has also failed to submit new emission cut commitment within scheduled deadline before Belem summit
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Air pollution killed 1.7 million across India during 2022, up 40 percent since 2010: Lancet
- by Jayanta Basu, Bonn
- October 29, 2025
Fossil fuel caused nearly half of the deaths in India; global heat- linked deaths on the rise
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Kolkata Diwali: Your Honour, the model of green fireworks has failed, please review your decision: physicians and activists urged judiciary
- by Jayanta Basu, Bonn
- October 24, 2025
During Diwali incessant bursting of fireworks pushed air pollution levels to ‘severe’ category in city despite weather playing no role
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Kolkata Diwali: Fireworks violations rule roads as administration keeps busy announcing rules
- by Jayanta Basu, Bonn
- October 20, 2025
State and union government agencies tried to shift responsibility to one another ; government supported firework markets are under scanner
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IUCN adopted the historical motion that explicitly addressed fossil fuel as a threat to nature
- by Jayanta Basu, Bonn
- October 16, 2025
The IUCN World Conservation Congress has made history by adopting Motion 042, officially recognizing fossil fuel production as a fundamental threat to nature. This landmark decision, which aligns with recent International Court of Justice (ICJ) rulings, calls for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and urges global governments to halt new extraction. This move is seen
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Highland flood shelters for wild animals planned in north Bengal forest areas
- by Jayanta Basu, Bonn
- October 13, 2025
State forest department taking the step emulating Assam’s Kaziranga park model post recent deluge
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Green puja 2025: tea themed puja of Alipore Sarbojanin tops in south Kolkata
- by Satabdi Nandi
- September 27, 2025
Range of green themes from sustainable development goal to rural Bengal to losing of environment centric livelihoods dot the pujas
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Twelve years after being trafficked, a Sundarban woman stopped possible trafficking of a local girl
- by Chandrima S. Bhattacharya
- September 15, 2025
Basanti block, where the survivor lives, is a severely climate-vulnerable zone and among the most trafficking-prone areas of West Bengal
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Belem to be a turnaround COP despite global political and economic instability: COP 30 president
- by Jayanta Basu, Bonn
- September 9, 2025
Baku to Belem roadmap, how the fund support can reach from 300 billion USD to 1.3 trillion USD annually, is ready
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India at 79
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India at 79: Policy paradoxes and political priorities mostly steered urban planning, environment ignored
- by Anjal Prakash
- September 8, 2025
Decade old Smart City mission has been technology and infrastructure driven, failed to check burgeoning urban pollution in most of the 'smart cities'