From Punjab to Haryana, West Bengal, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu millions of farmers across the …

A few weeks ago, crimson skies and bloody orange-coloured sun made headlines as a result of record-setting widlfires burning across Colorado, California, Oregon, and Washington in the United States.  Air pollution, the most dangerous element of huge fires  The fires not only ejected smoke, but soot and ash into the air amid searing heat. This is because smoke from wood …

The Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), shrinking over the years because of encroachments, will now expand by 800 acres. Just weeks after Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray proposed to designate 600 acres of land in Aarey Colony as forest, the state government’s Forest Department has not only agreed to add another 200 acres to what the CM sought, but also link …