Category Feature

Feature, Microplastics

Breathing Plastics: What Emerging Research Means for Global Air Quality

Air pollution has traditionally been understood through the lens of combustion. Smoke from vehicles, coal-fired power plants, industrial emissions and construction dust have shaped how scientists, policymakers and the public think about dirty air. Over time, fine particulate matter, particularly…

Vivek Saini
December 13, 2025
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Climate Goals, Feature

Ten Years of the Paris Agreement: What Has Changed and What Still Hasn’t

The Paris Agreement marks its tenth anniversary at a moment when climate change is no longer a distant problem but a lived reality for millions. When it was adopted in 2015, the treaty became the first global pact requiring every…

Manjori Borkotoky
December 12, 2025
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Feature, Global Warming

From Black Earth to Climate Gold: Can Soil—and the Amazon’s Terra Preta—Help Cool the Planet?

For centuries, the Amazon rainforest was seen mainly as a vast green carbon sink above ground. But beneath its trees, an even more remarkable climate story has been quietly stored pretae soil itself. Scattered across the basin are patches of…

Climate Change Impact, Feature

Crumbling Ice, Collapsing Futures: The Urgent Global Push to Save Glaciers

Glaciers have long stood as silent, icy sentinels — sculpting mountains, regulating rivers, and storing Earth’s frozen memory of climate across millennia. Today, they are screaming. The alarm is no longer hypothetical. The retreat of glaciers is already reshaping landscapes,…

Manjori Borkotoky
December 5, 2025
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Feature, Natural Disasters

From Red Alert to Ruin: How System Failures Turned Ditwah into Sri Lanka’s Worst Storm in Decades

Cyclone Ditwah did not just bring rain; it brought ruin. In a matter of hours, neighbourhoods were swallowed by floods, hillsides collapsed, and entire communities were swept into chaos. Hundreds are dead or missing, tens of thousands displaced, and millions…

Climate Change Impact, Feature

Rising Heat, Rising Risk, UN Report Says Asia Pacific Enters a New Era of Climate Threats

Asia and the Pacific are entering a period where rising temperatures are shaping a new disaster landscape. According to the UN ESCAP Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2025, extreme heat is now driving the fastest-growing climate hazards in the region. Heatwaves…

Vivek Saini
December 1, 2025
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Air Pollution, Feature

India’s North and Northeast regions at the Heart of a National Pollution Emergency

In the winter of 2023, Climate Fact Checks reported what many Delhi residents already knew in their bones: toxic air had become a way of life. Each season brought a new crisis—heatwaves, storms, winter smog—but the air stayed dangerous regardless…

Air Pollution, Feature

Delhi’s Tryst with a Volcano Half a World Away

On Monday, November 24, 2025, just past midnight, when most of Delhi slept under its usual blanket of winter smog, a quiet message flickered across meteorological dashboards: the Ethiopian ash cloud had arrived. There was no sound, no spectacle, no…

Manjori Borkotoky
November 25, 2025

Air Pollution, Feature

Sri Lanka’s Cities Are Choking: Smog Seasons Worsen as Traffic, Waste Burning and Monsoon Winds Collide

Sri Lanka’s rapid urban growth has brought with it a growing threat: smog and air pollution over the country’s cities. In Colombo, Kandy, Kurunegala and other urban areas, a brownish haze sometimes hangs low, quietly choking visibility and health. Experts…

Emissions, Feature

COP:30 New UNEP Report Reveals Critical Five-Year Window to Curb Methane

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) have unveiled a major new assessment at COP30, warning that although the world is advancing on methane reduction, the pace remains far too slow to achieve the…

Aayushi Gour
November 19, 2025
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