When finance flows, ambition grows: The critical COP30 message the world can’t ignore
Nov 16, 2025, at 08:31 pm
In Belém, Brazil, as the world turns its eyes to the Amazon where COP30 has been underway for the past week, one question looms large: can climate finance move from pledge to lifeline?
COP30 goes high-tech: AI innovation, sustainable cooling leads global climate revolution
Nov 12, 2025, at 05:56 pm
As the planet heats up, so does the race for smarter, cleaner technology. At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, delegates are weighing a paradox at the heart of climate innovation: how to harness powerful tools like artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced cooling systems without deepening the very crisis they aim to solve.
India sends urgent food aid to Afghanistan after massive 6.3 magnitude earthquake
Nov 04, 2025, at 04:13 pm
India on Monday dispatched a consignment of food items to earthquake-hit Afghanistan, where a powerful 6.3 magnitude tremor recently left at least 20 people dead and over 500 injured across the northern provinces of Samangan, Balkh, and Baghlan.
The next pandemic might hit some cities harder: Is yours on the list?
Nov 04, 2025, at 02:23 pm
A new global report warns that inequality is increasing the world’s vulnerability to pandemics, making them more deadly, more costly and longer lasting – and where you live, could determine how badly impacted you are.
6.3 earthquake triggers panic in Afghanistan’s Mazar-e-Sharif, four dead
Nov 03, 2025, at 08:39 am
At least four people were killed after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck northern Afghanistan near the city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Monday, officials said.
ISA DG says renewable energy surpasses coal for the first time in 6 months
Oct 29, 2025, at 04:11 pm
International Solar Alliance (ISA) Director General Ashish Khanna has stated that for the first time in the initial six months of the calendar year, the total energy generated from renewable sources exceeded that from coal.
Hurricane Mellisa heads towards Cuba after making landfall in Jamaica
Oct 29, 2025, at 10:35 am
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday, becoming one of the strongest cyclones ever to strike the Caribbean before moving toward Cuba as a powerful Category 4 storm, according to media reports on Wednesday.
Cyclone Montha crosses Andhra coast, one dead, several injured; Odisha also hit
Oct 29, 2025, at 12:02 am
Severe cyclonic storm Montha made landfall along the Andhra Pradesh coast near Kakinada on Tuesday evening, bringing heavy rainfall, gale-force winds, and widespread disruption across coastal districts.
Cyclone Montha begins landfall near Andhra Pradesh's Kakinada, state on high alert
Oct 28, 2025, at 08:48 pm
Severe Cyclonic Storm Montha started making landfall near Kakinada on Tuesday night, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) confirmed, warning of strong winds and heavy rainfall along Andhra Pradesh’s coast.
Hurricane Melissa: US Air Force flies into eye of storm, collects data
Oct 28, 2025, at 05:00 pm
The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron of the United States Air Force conducted a daring mission into Hurricane Melissa, as it moved towards Jamaica, capturing footage inside the storm, termed as one of the most powerful to hit the region this year.
Delhi awaits rain after cloud-seeding trial to curb severe air pollution
Oct 28, 2025, at 03:34 pm
The cloud-seeding trial aimed at inducing rainfall in pollution-hit Delhi has been completed, officials said on Monday, as the national capital continues to struggle with a thick blanket of toxic smog.
Cyclone Montha to make landfall today, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh on alert
Oct 28, 2025, at 09:00 am
The evacuation process has been heightened across Odisha and Andhra Pradesh with Cyclonic Storm “Montha” moving towards the coast and likely to make landfall between Kakinada between Machilipatnam and Kalingapatnam on Tuesday evening.
Indi Setu: Wildlife on the Brink: Can We Rewild a Warming World?
Oct 25, 2025, at 03:21 pm
London/IBNS: Can rewilding — in cities, in the wild, and in our stories — become a real strategy for conserving biodiversity as the planet heats up?
Decade of slowing deforestation offers hope for forests: FAO data
Oct 22, 2025, at 10:29 am
Lush, green and brimming with trees and wildlife, forests are the Earth’s lungs and source of livelihoods for many communities.
Oct 22, 2025, at 12:15 am
Several districts across Tamil Nadu are on high alert as the northeast monsoon intensifies following its early onset, raising fears of a potential cyclone formation over the Bay of Bengal.
Despite 77.5% drop in stubble burning, Delhi’s air quality hits a five-year post-Diwali low
Oct 21, 2025, at 09:22 pm
Despite a 77.5 percent drop in stubble burning. long seen as a primary cause of Delhi’s winter smog, the capital’s air quality collapsed to a five-year post-Diwali low on Tuesday morning, with PM2.5 levels averaging 488 micrograms per cubic metre, nearly 100 times the World Health Organization’s exposure limit.
Record rise in carbon dioxide levels during 2024, alerts UN weather agency
Oct 15, 2025, at 06:33 pm
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rose by a record amount in 2024, reaching new highs and locking in further long-term warming and extreme weather, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Delhi’s air quality deteriorates: CAQM enforces Stage-I curbs under GRAP
Oct 14, 2025, at 09:14 pm
Signalling the annual return of toxic air in the capital, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), the Centre’s anti-pollution panel, has enforced Stage-I restrictions under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) across Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR).
Tornado-like ‘Haathisundh’ stuns tourists at Odisha’s Chilika Lake, sparks awe and panic
Oct 11, 2025, at 11:01 pm
Puri: The serene Chilika Lake in Odisha presented a terrifying spectacle for the tourists on Friday when a tornado, described as a towering spiral of wind and water, appeared, creating awe and panic among the visitors.
Himachal Pradesh landslide tragedy: 18 dead as bus buried under debris in Bilaspur
Oct 07, 2025, at 09:48 pm
At least 18 people were killed after a private bus was buried under debris following a massive landslide in the Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh late Tuesday evening.
Oct 06, 2025, at 11:29 am
Siliguri/Kolkata/IBNS: At least 28 people have died and over a dozen people are missing in the floods and landslide caused by heavy rain in West Bengal's Darjeeling hills last weekend, media reports said.
Nepal: 51 die in rain-related incidents, Indian PM Narendra Modi offers assistance
Oct 06, 2025, at 10:47 am
At least 51 people have died in rain-related incidents across eastern Nepal after days of heavy rainfall triggered massive landslides and floods, local media reported on Sunday.
Seventeen dead as torrential rains, landslides hit Darjeeling and North Bengal
Oct 05, 2025, at 03:51 pm
Heavy rainfall triggered landslides across West Bengal’s Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts, disrupting normal life and leaving at least 17 people dead, media reports said on Sunday.
14 dead as heavy rains trigger landslides, road disruptions across North Bengal
Oct 05, 2025, at 12:00 pm
Continuous overnight rain has wreaked havoc across North Bengal, leaving at least 14 people dead in landslides in Darjeeling’s Mirik and Sukhia Pokhari areas.
Sep 23, 2025, at 02:26 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: At least seven people have died of electrocution due to waterlogging caused by the overnight torrential rain that battered Kolkata amid the festive fervour in the city, media reports said.
Six die in rain-related incidents in Kolkata, several areas waterlogged
Sep 23, 2025, at 10:49 am
At least six people died due to rain-related incidents in Kolkata, where heavy downpour and thunderstorms occurred on Tuesday, leaving the city paralysed.
Heavy rains, thunderstorms lash Kolkata, disrupting normal life ahead of Durga Puja festival
Sep 23, 2025, at 09:18 am
Heavy rains and thunderstorms lashed Kolkata on Tuesday, leaving a large area in the city waterlogged and paralysing normal life at a time when people are gearing up to celebrate the week-long Durga Puja festival.
Study finds Europe recorded 62,775 heat-related deaths during the summer of 2024
Sep 23, 2025, at 12:38 am
A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the ”la Caixa” Foundation, has estimated that 62,775 heat-related deaths occurred in Europe between June 1 and September 30, 2024.
Polar explorer Preet Chandi to speak at Indi Setu thought leadership summit in London
Sep 22, 2025, at 03:02 am
London/IBNS: Harpreet Kaur “Preet” Chandi, a British Army officer and physiotherapist widely known as “Polar Preet”, will be a featured speaker at Indi Setu 2025, a two-day thought leadership summit in London from October 10-11.
Pune-based scientist Dr Himanshu Kulkarni becomes first Indian to win International Water Prize
Sep 22, 2025, at 12:37 am
Pune-based scientist Dr Himanshu Kulkarni became the first from the Indian subcontinent to be awarded the biennial ‘International Water Prize’ instituted since 2009, sponsored by the WaTER Center at the University of Oklahoma, USA.