The Enforcement Team of the State Taxes Department, Udhampur, has successfully busted a fraudulent Input Tax Credit (ITC) case, resulting in the recovery of a penalty amounting to Rs,9,72,190. The ...

Indigenous elders lose climate case as judge says protecting islands is a political, not legal, responsibility ...

African Ministers of Environment came together with a vision: that our continent’s development must go hand in hand with protecting our natural heritage. Today, as we gather for AMCEN’s 20th Ordinary ...

California has protected over one million acres of land and coastal waters since mid-2024, an area roughly equal to that of ...

Companies engaged in these activities refer to the production or use of forest-risk commodities such as palm oil, soy, beef, ...

Hundreds of nations have agreed a landmark plan to raise at least $200bn a year to combat the global nature crisis by 2030, as the resumed COP16 UN biodiversity talks finally drew to a close in ...

She will continue as COP16 president until after the conclusion of the Rome talks, according to a spokesperson for the secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. With budgets under ...

The drying out and degradation of Earth's land is an "existential crisis" that could affect 5 billion people by the end of the century, according to a UN report released this week. Faced with depleted ...

Can the UN COP16 summit help stop Earth's land drying out? Holly Young 12/12/2024 Healthy soil is vital for water and food supply. But much fertile land is heavily degraded and turning to desert.

Just over 75 percent of the world's land has been left "permanently drier" over the previous three decades, a UN-backed report coinciding with COP16 talks on desertification in Saudi Arabia said ...

COP16 has highlighted the urgent link between desertification, land degradation and drought — which are worsening forced migration and threatening global stability.

Nearly 40% of global grasslands are degraded, and their restoration and protection is essential, says WWF’s Leonie Meier.