Environment

October 21, 2024 12:24 PM

Air Quality in Delhi drops to ‘Very Poor’ level

The air quality in Delhi worsened on Monday, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) hitting 349 at 8 a.m., categorized as 'very poor.' Shakurpur recorded an AQI of 346, India Gate recorded 309, and the AQI at Safdarjung stood at 307, all classified under the 'very poor' category. In addition to the wors...

October 21, 2024 11:28 AM

Cuba grid collapses again, hurricane heaps on misery

Cuba's electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, the fourth such failure in 48 hours, with a hurricane making landfall to compound the island's misery and threaten further havoc on its decrepit infrastructure. Cuba earlier on Sunday had said it was making headway restoring service after mult...

October 21, 2024 10:07 AM

COP16 kicks off in Colombia with opening ceremony

The two-week COP16 biodiversity summit kicked off in Colombia on Sunday with an opening ceremony flanked by Colombian officials and representatives of indigenous peoples. During the summit, officials aim to halt the rapid destruction of nature which has reached unprecedented extremes globally in 20...

October 19, 2024 1:00 PM

AQI in Delhi drops to 226; residents face breathing issues

A thin layer of smog has blanketed the national capital on Saturday, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) dropping to 226, classified as 'Poor' by the Central Pollution Control Board. The worst readings were recorded in the Akshardham and Anand Vihar areas, where the AQI reached 334, categorized as 'Ver...

October 18, 2024 11:08 PM

Azores create largest marine protected area in North Atlantic

The regional assembly of Portugal's Azores Islands approved the creation of the largest protected marine area in the North Atlantic to reach international conservation goals well ahead of time. The approval late on Thursday places the archipelago at the forefront of global ocean conservation that a...

October 18, 2024 10:20 AM

Smog engulfs Delhi, AQI drops to 293

A layer of smog has blanketed the national capital, driving the Air Quality Index (AQI) down to 293, a level categorized as 'Poor'. In Anand Vihar, the AQI has worsened to 339, falling into the 'Very Poor' category. The India Gate area recorded an AQI of 270, also marked as 'Poor.' Meanwhile, Dwarka...

October 17, 2024 2:20 PM

Deep ocean marine heatwaves may be under-reported, study says

Heatwaves deep in oceans may be "significantly under-reported", highlighting an area of marine warming that has been largely overlooked, a joint study by Australia's national science agency (CISRO) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found. The study, which was published on Thursday in the Natu...