For the second year in a row, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not showing any progress. The Sustainable Development Report (SDR) is a global assessment of countries’ progress towards achieving these goals, and this year, India has been placed at 121st rank among 163 countries from where data was…

Although oceans appear limitless, they are not immune to the damage that we cause to them. Every year, tons of waste get dumped in the ocean affecting the quality of the ecosystem and lives of aquatic animals. They are critical to our existence and contribute to balancing nature’s cycles. Keeping…

The two-day “Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all — our responsibility, our opportunity” was convened by the United Nations General Assembly to commemorate 50 years of UN Conference on the Human Environment (in 1972). …

With a rapid increase in the urbanization, it is expected that more than 60 percent of the population in India will be living in the cities by 2050. Given the reduced quality of city life and exposure to natural environment, it has become imperative to address some of the critical…

The slogan for International Day for Biological Diversity, “Building a Shared Future for all Life” aims to highlight the importance of biodiversity for many of the challenges to achieve sustainable development. The underlying message is that ecosystem-based approaches and nature-based solutions are the key to address climate change, health issues…

(A photoblog series on bio-diversity of the North-eastern India — Part II) Greater One-Horned Rhino I tried to capture an image of an Indian One-Horned Rhino mother and her baby in Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam. During the month of April, the grasslands of all the parks become greener due to…

The first in-person meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in two years was held in Geneva last month. …

(A photoblog on the bio-diversity of Northeast India — Part I) An Encounter with Red-breasted Parakeets It was a cold winter morning in December 2020, when I was on my usual rounds of birding in my village Morigaon in Assam. And, all of a sudden a large flock of Red-breasted Parakeets flew over and docked…

~Youth for Earth We are in the era where of action to achieve the goals that are set to fight the climate crisis matters more than ever. As the world experiences the effects of climate change from severe cyclones to wildfires raging across the globe, the governments are making policies…