Rishika Pardikar

EXCLUSIVE: Indian politicians have denied the severity of the air pollution crisis for decades. Internal documents reveal how this denial has shaped — and constrained — policymaking. Story of the long overdue update of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) drilled.media/news/air-pol...

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Just weeks before Türkiye hosts the world's countries for COP31, Carney goes to the country to pitch LNG. The PM is looking for buyers to support a growing gas market in Canada — clearly using the weight of government to boost a sector that must be phased out for climate commitments.

The relevant section from the report wedocs.unep.org/rest/api/cor...

Kudos to NBC New York for saying it without equivocation: "The US is to blame for the world falling behind in the fight against climate change."

Which country is holding the largest investments in fossil fuels per capita: the US? China? Saudi Arabia? None of the above – it’s in fact a small country with a large financial center. Details on my latest #SwissClimateRambles post swissclimaterambles.substack.com/p/the-worlds...

🚨 HAPPENING NOW: The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (@FRLossandDamage) is holding its first-ever Extraordinary Board Meeting to discuss its response to Nepal. 🔴 Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGgt... 🧵 Follow this thread for updates.

Sometimes struggle to explain to international colleagues just how absurd Norwegian oil culture is. Well, Norway's energy minister recently encouraged petroleum companies to be more "horny for exploration" (letekåte) for more oil/gas. And this is treated as a completely normal thing to say.

"To deliver the Paris commitment to keep warming well below 2°C requires global CO₂ emissions to fall by around 8% annually, starting immediately. The rate would be higher for the UK and other developed countries if the equity dimension of the Paris Agreement were taken seriously."

This is a ridiculous and offensive thing to claim. They were crushed by a much more powerful force. That much more powerful force was not going to accept democracy in HK and it had nothing to do with protest tactics.

19,000 grenades were used in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Bordeaux by the police last weekend 19,000 And some suggest there was not enough police presence If ever there was proof that authoritarian crackdowns are not the solution to the many crises France and other countries are facing...

"2026 The Police Mutilate High School Students" Written on a Yellow Vest on France's Statue of Liberty.

Where does India’s public clean energy research money go? Our new 'India’s Clean Energy RD&D Tracker' brings together 1,359 publicly funded projects at 90+ institutions, worth about INR 1,443 crore, in one place for the first time. Visit the Tracker: www.sustainablefutures.org/indias-clean...

Last year, the UK and EU sent 650,000 metric tons of plastic waste to COP31 host Turkey — more than they sent anywhere else. Some view the trade as too convenient to walk away from.

In Hungary, it was corruption. In India, it's the failure of job creation. These weren't the only reasons, but they were so big and so irrefutable, that they have collapsed trust in both the government and its media control mechanisms.

This works, until it doesn't. At some point reality pokes a hole through the gauze. In the US, UK, and EU, that reality has been Gaza. It has not just collapsed the credibility of the government but also the media that facilitated the lies. The control, the message discipline, evaporates

Will write a longer piece on this, but one of the deep facilitators of anti-democratic politics has been the consolidation of media ownership, and the bombardment of shocking and salacious "news" in the place of grounded journalism which shows how the powerful are acting.

There's new hope for reversing widespread coral decline go.nature.com/4zwy3nF

Farmers keep doing what they were doing already. Companies like Google and Amazon create credits out of such farmer practices to "offset" their massive AI-related emissions the-ken.com/story/google...

Nice to see references and inspiration from India's cockroach movement. www.ft.com/content/487d...

Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in the UK because of Palestine Action support

How a massive earthquake in Eastern India led to the birth of modern seismology. Very interesting article by Utsa Bose on the consequences of the Assam earthquake of 1897 on the field of seismology, public interest in science and its reportage. www.nature.com/articles/d44...