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The increasing frequency and intensity of such events pose a significant risk to the livelihoods of people across the globe, according to a study (Global Climate Highlights 2024) published by Copernicus Climate Change Service and ECMWF…

Beijing’s export restrictions have presumably turbocharged New Delhi’s National Critical Minerals Mission, forcing India to look for alternatives. Rebel-held Kachin State in Myanmar, which supplies nearly half of the world’s dysprosium (Dy)…

A recent risk analysis by the XDI (Cross Dependency Initiative) in their Global Data Centre Physical Climate Risk and Adaptation Report (July 2025), around 8,868 data centres worldwide revealed that climate risks are not a distant future…

International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD), observed every year on August 31, embodies this spirit of collective action. Since its beginnings in 2001 as a modest barbecue gathering of people impacted by overdose at The Salvation Army…

A series of cloudbursts have devastated large parts across the HKH region in India this month, and earlier. Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim has tasted the fury of nature in earnest. By Salam Rajesh So, what’s up…

A special report on the cryosphere by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicated that changing snowfall and rainfall patterns due to climate change have made the Himalayan mountains quite vulnerable. Glacier retreat and…

The GWO 2025 report concludes with a harsh note: There is an urgent need to scale up funding for wetlands aligning finance with sustainability by investing in conservation, restoration and wise use, while redirecting harmful subsidies.…

In the 2000s, experts had anticipated glacial origin floods to hit the Hindu Kush Himalaya region once every 5 to 10 years. And, true to it, during May and June earlier this year three glacial origin floods hit Limi in Nepal, Andorab valley…

Once inside the body, these tiny particles accumulate in various organs and enter the circulatory system, potentially causing harmful health effects. Microplastics are found in biological fluids and organs such as semen, breast milk, urine,…

At a time when Manipur faced frequent turmoil in law and order, basic infrastructure shortages, and a major exodus of talent, SHRI’s founder Dr Palin Khundongbam envisioned a center of medical excellence not as a reaction to adversity but…