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Environment desk
Air, water, forests, heat and the transition — with an emphasis on what the numbers actually show.
The court's new term opened with a bid by major oil and gas companies to head off lawsuits that hold them liable for climate harm. The legal question underneath is older and larger than one case: can a court order a polluter to pay for damage that is decades away?
EU scientists report that a majority of the continent's population experienced very strong heat stress over the summer, while separate research has a Slovenian glacier on track to disappear within days and Swiss ice taking another sharp loss.
Rainfall at Safdarjung ran 26% above normal, one day was the cleanest July day in a decade, and the monthly average AQI still came in at 119. Both facts belong in the same paragraph.
The draft intensity targets covering 255 units ask for a median cut of about 5.5% against a 2023-24 baseline. Against an intensity gap of roughly 0.64 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of steel, that is not a decarbonisation schedule.
The weather office puts the country's wettest month of the monsoon at under 94% of the long-period average, and warns of above-normal daytime and night temperatures across most of India.
The southwest monsoon reached Kerala around June 4, several days behind schedule, and the season's forecast was cut. Neither fact is as alarming as it looks — and neither is as reassuring as it sounds.
The IMD has downgraded its seasonal outlook for the southwest monsoon to 90% of the long-period average, with below-normal rainfall forecast for three of the four regions. The percentage is a national average, and that is where its weakness lies.
NOT SCRIPTED worked through the IMD's own outlook and the early-March temperature reports to size the exposure of the north Indian rabi crop to a hot start to March.
The first monthly forecast of the 2026 summer points to isolated heatwaves in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh in March and a broad warming of 3 to 15 days above normal across much of the country.
A national conference of chief wildlife wardens opened in Rajasthan with a proposal to formally review NTCA decisions and to map reserves zone by zone, with environment minister Bhupender Yadav calling the exercise a progressive step.
