Annual global temperature is likely to be at least 1°C warmer than pre-industrial levels in each of the coming five years, putting globally agreed climate…
By Soumya Sarkar/thethirdpole.net
The global agricultural market has been severely shaken by Covid-19. Palm oil is no exception, particularly in India, the world’s largest importer of…
By Rishika Pardikar/thethirdpole.net
On April 23, 2020, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of India’s environment ministry met to deliberate the 3,097-megawatt Etalin hydropower project in…
By - Bipul Chatterjee; Veena Vidyadharan; Jyotiraj Patra/thethirdpole.net
An addendum to an existing agreement could open up valuable trade routes for small producers and marginalized communities…
By - TheThirdPole.Net
Cloudbursts flood parts of India, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh; monsoon reaches Pakistan well ahead of schedule
The 2020 summer monsoon has just about…
As governments try to kick-start their economies, the UN is calling for recovery plans to be built around low-carbon technologies, to avoid a return to…
Locust swarms that have traveled thousands of kilometers have now reached the outskirts of Gurugram and Delhi. On Saturday morning a large swarm of locusts…
By - Teresa Rehman/thethirdpole.net
Living close to the natural gas well that is still ablaze, Deborshee Gogoi believes humour has the power to inspire conservation, and…
By - Rishika Pardikar/thethirdpole.net
No attempt made to salvage the cargo that keeps poisoning the Ganga and other rivers.
On May 25, a barge carrying 800-900…
By - Chandrani Sinha/thethirdpole.net
Government’s oil company gets green light to continue drilling in biodiversity hotspots of north-eastern India, even as disastrous fire from a…
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Food Industry Asia (FIA) today released a regional survey of consumers and food and beverage businesses across South-East Asia that…
By - Soumya Sarkar/thethirdpole.net
India has launched its first auction to private companies to mine and sell coal in what is seen as a regressive move…