EnvironmentKolkata received 557.4 mm of rain this September, the fourth highest since 1900, and late monsoon rain cut India's seasonal deficit to 12.6 per cent.
EnvironmentCouncillors chose to keep trucking more than 20,000 cubic metres of Cromwell sludge to a Southland landfill after the projected saving shrank and doubts grew over the Lauder site, a decision Federated Farmers welcomed.
EnvironmentAgriculture minister Martin Heydon will ask the European Commission to let farmers who need forage from land set aside for wintering geese and swans use it for their own livestock without losing ACRES payments.
EnvironmentJuvenile lake sturgeon released into Cleveland's Cuyahoga River nearly tripled in length within a year, a hopeful sign for a fish endangered in Ohio and for a river once so polluted it caught fire.
Once a fish pond and the only fire-fighting water source in Matiranga town, Khagrachhari, the Dholia lake is now hemmed in by shops and homes, black with hotel and sewage waste and breeding mosquitoes; officials promise action.
CropsHyacinth carried in by floodwater is stuck in at least 20 beels of Gurudaspur, Singra, Naldanga and Tarash; farmers fear they cannot sow mustard, wheat, maize and garlic unless it is cleared soon.
EnvironmentForest officials recovered a decomposed calf from the Kubai river in West Midnapore; on Sunday three elephants were killed by an illegal power connection to a shallow pump.
At a pre-COP31 webinar by the Bangladesh Climate Change Trust, the environment ministry and a UNESCO Chair, speakers urged turning climate priorities into investable projects.
Approved after the devastating 2024 floods, the project will control floods and waterlogging and help farming and fisheries, the water resources minister said.
AgrotechThe Swiss climate-tech start-up turns crop residues into biochar in small reactors near where they are produced and returns it to soils, and will use the money to make its system a repeatable hardware and software product.
EnvironmentDNA analysis by researchers from UC Berkeley and Chile has identified the gentoo penguins of the Kerguelen Islands as a separate species, Pygoscelis kerguelensis.
EnvironmentChinese AI forecasting models such as Fengniao, Pangu-Weather, Fuxi and the CMA's Mazu warning system predict in minutes, but experts say they still miss sudden local downpours where data is thin.
The crack appeared before dawn on Wednesday at the Sureshwar fish landing in Shariatpur; the UNO and Water Development Board officials have inspected the site.
