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Nairobi meetings 2026: CBD's crucial discussions end with heavily bracketed recommendations for COP17

India, Aug. 13 -- The 7th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI 7) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) came to an end in Nairobi, Kenya on August 12. 2026. This meeting fol... Read More


In Memoriam: With Balendu Prakash's passing, India has lost a stalwart of traditional medicine

India, Aug. 8 -- Padma Shri Vaidya Balendu Prakash, who died of cardiac arrest on August 7, 2026, at 67, was a pioneering Ayurvedic physician known for evidence-based practice and global reach. From ... Read More


Nairobi meetings 2026: Draft report indicates slow progress towards meeting biodiversity targets

India, July 27 -- The draft of the first global assessment of the progress towards the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) suggests that the world is not on track to meet the target... Read More


Harvest of heritage

India, June 2 -- In the hills of Koraput district in Odisha, farming still follows an older rhythm. In Jalaguda village of Kundra block, Rukmini Kilo tends her fields much as her parents did, sowing t... Read More


Centre releases insights from first national report on Nagoya Protocol

India, May 25 -- The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) recently published insights gleaned from the First National Report on the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit S... Read More