In early 2026, scientists around the world observed the first warning signs of a potentially very strong El Niño—a Pacific Ocean phenomenon that had the power to disrupt weather patterns and send ripples through economies worldwide.

Credit: Pexels When India's next major industrial cluster enters the market, such as a Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) node in a Tier-2 city or a National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) in a mid-sized manufacturing district, it will enter a regulatory environment that has already decided, by design, that it does not quite belong. This is a consequence of the regulations and frameworks designed for cities with enterprise-grade auditing infrastructure, certif

India's tenure filter is locking its most climate-exposed urban households out of the adaptation schemes designed to protect them.

The policy looks well-equipped on paper, yet the latest figures indicate the official C&D recycling rate at a mere 5 %.

ach disaster is defined by its pace. Earthquakes come within seconds, floods in hours, drought in months. Subsidence takes years to show. It starts showing in millimetres and keeps exacerbating from thereon, and this entire process happens so slowly that when it manifests itself through cracks in walls and roads and flooded basements, the ground responsible for it is no longer there. This is already happening in places as far apart as Jakarta and Mexico City. And although slo

The field of global climate diplomacy, formerly seen as a significant unified front against the shared existential peril, is now characterized by strategic recalibration and disintegration. The pressure is on developing countries to strike a balance between the prestige of global leadership and the harsh realities of infrastructural growth as the world keeps shifting the dynamics of alliances and the advent of digital and energy sovereignty.

The popular urban planning idea is spreading fast, but the gap between the vision and the reality reveals a deeper governance crisis.

Over four billion people globally are now urban residents, and the concrete infrastructure of their cities is making extreme heat deadlier with every passing summer. India by itself is home to over 513 million of them, nearly 13% of the world's urban population, and its cities are less than prepared for a climate phenomenon that is turning them virtually into ovens.

Steel has always been a proxy for industrial power. The countries that make it cheaply tend to win. For a long time, the logic was blunt: pay your workers less, skip the environmental compliance, keep your energy bills low, and you could sell steel into Europe cheaper than any European mill ever could. That edge is now being taxed out of existence.