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. After 15 days of negotiations, a text of goals, targets and supporting mechanisms for the ambitious and transformative post-2020 global biodiversity framework were produced, subject to confirmation at the UN…

(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…

‘The mountain makes its own weather’, one remembers the adage while traversing the high mountains. …

Research on indigenous ocean communities, fishermen, sustainable development and climate change education was conducted in the small islands of Lakshadweep to study the SDG goals and its implications in climate change mitigation in the ocean habitats. From the Ocean Diaries of Elsie Gabriel: The voices of small island developing states…

The 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Glasgow concluded with the signing of the Glasgow Climate Pact. The pact has been widely described as a compromise that has kept the prospects of limiting warming to 1.5 degree Celsius alive by…