Fun Fact: Globally, air-conditioning (AC) and cooling appliances use about 7% of the world’s electricity and account for roughly 3.2% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In India’s sweltering summers, the phrase “Cooling India’s Homes Without Climate Guilt: The Carbon Story of Air Conditioning” feels almost rebellious. Because yes, we deserve cool homes. But the …
Fun Fact: The industrial town of Byrnihat—nestled between the states of Meghalaya and Assam—once obscure on India’s pollution radar, was recently declared the world’s most polluted city. Byrnihat has never been on many people’s travel bucket-lists. Yet today its name appears on the very lists we dread. In this blog, “Byrnihat: India’s Most Polluted City …
Fun Fact: Did you know that over 47,000 brick kilns across the Indo-Gangetic plain in India have been detected using satellite imagery and machine-learning? In this age of soaring skyscrapers and sleek smartphones, it’s ironic that a humble brick still plays a starring role in India’s construction boom — and stays largely hidden from view. …
Fun Fact: By 2030, the global stream of electronic waste (e-waste) could reach a mind-boggling 2.5 million tons — a digital graveyard we’re building without a map. What if your old smartphone wasn’t just clutter in a drawer but the trigger for a tech-driven chain reaction? In the blog titled “E-Waste Gets Smart: AI + …
Fun Fact: Some of Kolkata’s main underground drains were built over 150 years ago—when horse-drawn carriages ruled the streets, not cars or climate chaos. Every monsoon, Kolkata holds its breath. The rains come—sometimes gentle, sometimes furious—and the old city gasps under its own weight. Streets turn into rivers, manholes bubble like geysers, and people wade …
Despite decades of growth, no state in India excels across all major environmental, health and development indicators. That’s the unsettling truth behind “State of India’s Environment 2025: The Grim Story Behind the Numbers”. As a new mosaic of studies layer reveals, climate strain is growing, health stress is spreading and development gains are faltering — …
Fun fact: India plans to build more than 200 large hydropower projects in the next two decades—so many that you could fit a new dam every week and still have spares. This startling reality lies at the heart of “India’s $77B Hydro Plan: Dams as Climate Solution or Ecological Time Bomb?” The government’s ambitious ₹6.4 …
Fun fact: The new Bharat Forecast System (BFS) in India slices the country into blocks as small as 6 kilometers (km)—that’s about the size of a large village—and delivers weather predictions for each one. With “Bharat Forecast System: India’s New 6-km Weather Radar to Predict Extremes”, we’re talking about a leap in how India forecasts …
In April 2025, some parts of the India-Pakistan region experienced temperatures up to 49 °C (120 °F) — not in the peak of summer, but in an early-season surge. That’s the backdrop of “Heatwave 2025: When South Asia Crossed the Temperature Tipping Point.” What we’re witnessing isn’t just another hot season — it’s a sign …
Fun fact: one ton of burnt paddy straw releases the same amount of CO₂-equivalent as driving around the M25 motorway in the UK for a week. Now imagine that same straw instead becoming fuel. In “Green Hydrogen from Straw: When Crop Waste Becomes Fuel”, the bold new memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Punjab Energy …
