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हिन्दी — Read in HindiLatest edition: September 2026. Covered from 1 June to 30 September 2026. Next edition, October 2026, publishes on 5 November 2026.
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LeadPrelims and MainsClimate science: records, attribution and tipping points
The new emissions scenarios for the next assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in April 2026, retire the worst case scenario, known as RCP8.5. In June a global report put human caused warming at 1.37°C in 2025, with the carbon budget for 1.5°C nearly spent.
LeadPrelims and MainsUNFCCC negotiations and the Paris framework
The mid year climate talks at Bonn, held from 8 to 18 June 2026, ended in gridlock over finance and trade. India used the session to press three demands before COP31 at Antalya.
LeadPrelims and MainsExtreme weather, monsoon and forecasting
Studies published in June 2026 found that humid heat is spreading in India beyond the summer into the monsoon, and that India has more cities among the world's most heat vulnerable than any other country. India's peak power demand reached a record in May, much of it for cooling.
LeadPrelims and MainsCourts, tribunals and environmental jurisprudence
By an order of 25 May 2026 the Supreme Court set up a High Powered Committee to review the definition of the Aravalli hills that it had accepted in November 2025, and barred fresh mining leases until a management plan is ready.
1.1.1The cheetahPrelims
29 Jun 2026The project's progress report found that about half of what free ranging cheetahs killed at Kuno was livestock, mainly goats and cattle, with chital the main wild prey. The livestock was taken where wild prey runs thin outside Kuno's core, and one male covered 3,198 sq km in 30 days. Mains: livestock predation makes conflict mitigation and community engagement essential, alongside prey augmentation and habitat improvement. The Indian Express, 29 Jun 2026: Goats and cattle form half of cheetah prey in Kuno, chital 42%: Report (opens in a new tab)
2.1.1Great Nicobar projectNewPrelims and Mains
The Great Nicobar project is a plan for an International Container Transshipment Port at Galathea Bay, a greenfield joint use airport, a township and a power plant on Great Nicobar Island.
2.1.2Sand mining at ThottappallyNewPrelims and Mains
The Kollam to Alappuzha coast is dense black sand rich in ilmenite, monazite, rutile, zircon and sillimanite.
3.1.1Notifying threatened species under Section 38NewPrelims
Section 38 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 lets the Centre, consulting the State, notify a species on the verge of extinction as threatened.
3.2.1Turtle trafficking by railNewPrelims and Mains
Turtle trafficking by rail moves Indian softshell and flapshell turtles, Schedule I species under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, from the Ganga and its tributaries in Uttar Pradesh in passenger luggage, with Madhya Pradesh as a transit corridor.
4.1.1Climate science in 2026: new scenarios, tipping points and the next IPCC reportLead
The new emissions scenarios for the next assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in April 2026, retire the worst case scenario, known as RCP8.5. In June a global report put human caused warming at 1.37°C in 2025, with the carbon budget for 1.5°C nearly spent.
4.1.2Extreme event attributionNewPrelims and Mains
Extreme event attribution is the science that estimates how much likelier, or how much more intense, climate change made a particular weather event.
4.2.1INCOIS El Niño bulletins for the seasNewPrelims
The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) links El Niño to warmer Indian Ocean waters, which bring more coral bleaching and marine heatwaves.
4.3.1Mission MausamNewPrelims and Mains
Mission Mausam is the Ministry of Earth Sciences programme, launched in 2024, to widen India's observing network, sharpen its models and take up weather modification research.
4.3.2Monsoon onset over KeralaNewPrelims
Monsoon onset over Kerala is the monsoon's arrival over Kerala, declared by the India Meteorological Department only after 10 May and only when three tests are met.
5.1.1The Bonn climate talks: what India asked forLead
The mid year climate talks at Bonn, held from 8 to 18 June 2026, ended in gridlock over finance and trade. India used the session to press three demands before COP31 at Antalya.
5.1.2India Japan Joint Crediting MechanismNewPrelims
The Joint Crediting Mechanism is a bilateral framework under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement for projects that reduce or remove emissions in India with Japanese investment and technology.
5.2.1Carbon Border Adjustment MechanismNewPrelims and Mains
The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is the European Union's charge on certain imports, paid by buying certificates that track the Union's carbon price.
5.3.1Biochar from crop residueNewPrelims and Mains
Biochar is made by heating farm waste with little oxygen, leaving a carbon rich, porous material that decays very slowly in soil.
6.1.1Summer air pollution: PM10 and ozoneNewPrelims and Mains
Summer air pollution in India is driven by coarse PM10 and ozone, where winter pollution is dominated by fine PM2.5 trapped by cold, still air.
6.1.2Clean mobility scheme for Delhi NCR trucks and busesNewPrelims and Mains
The clean mobility scheme for Delhi NCR replaces BS IV and older trucks and buses with BS VI or electric vehicles, through the National Capital Region Planning Board.
6.1.3Particulate matter and the placentaNewPrelims and Mains
PM2.5 and PM10 can cross the placental barrier and cause oxidative stress and inflammation.
6.2.1Urban River Management PlansNewPrelims and Mains
Urban River Management Plans shift urban planning from city centric to river centric, a shift set out at the National Ganga Council in Kanpur in December 2019.
6.3.1Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0NewPrelims and Mains
The Jal Jeevan Mission is the central scheme for a functional tap water connection to every rural household.
6.3.2Punjab's paddy and its groundwaterNewPrelims and Mains
Paddy is a water hungry kharif crop: in Punjab it needs about 25 to 30 irrigation cycles a season.
6.4.1Ammonia and industrial transient operationsNewPrelims and Mains
Ammonia is a colourless, pungent gas used in fertilisers, dyes and refrigeration.
7.1.1Fly ash by railNewPrelims
Fly ash, a by product of thermal power, is both a waste needing safe management and a resource for roads, bricks and cement.
8.1.1Fertiliser registration and nutrient use efficiencyNewPrelims and Mains
New fertilisers are registered under the Fertiliser (Control) Order, 1985: a dossier, two season bio efficacy trials by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and State universities, and Central Fertiliser Committee review.
9.1.1The Aravallis: a definition before the Supreme CourtLead
By an order of 25 May 2026 the Supreme Court set up a High Powered Committee to review the definition of the Aravalli hills that it had accepted in November 2025, and barred fresh mining leases until a management plan is ready.
9.1.2Climate litigationNewPrelims and Mains
Climate litigation is the use of courts to hold governments and companies to climate obligations.
9.1.3Occupier, not owner: liability for a tenant's pollutionNewPrelims
A State pollution board can levy interim environmental damage compensation under Section 33A of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 on the occupier of a polluting premises.
9.2.1Yamuna sharing: Haryana to RajasthanNewPrelims
The 1994 Upper Yamuna agreement divides the river's water among the basin States.
9.2.2The Teesta and ChinaNewPrelims and Mains
The Teesta is a river shared by India and Bangladesh, rising from Tso Lhamu lake in Sikkim.
9.2.3Cauvery and MekedatuNewPrelims and Mains
The Cauvery Water Management Authority implements the sharing of the river between Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry as fixed by the tribunal and modified by the Supreme Court in 2018.
9.2.4The Tungabhadra and the Krishna awardNewPrelims and Mains
The Tungabhadra is a tributary of the Krishna, formed where the Tunga and Bhadra, which rise in the Western Ghats, join near Shivamogga.
9.2.5Farakka and the 1996 Ganges Water TreatyNewPrelims and Mains
The Farakka Barrage, commissioned in 1975 on the Ganga in West Bengal, diverts water into the Bhagirathi Hooghly to keep Kolkata port navigable, a purpose inside India rather than at the border.
10.1.1Heat stress in India, and the cooling paradoxLead
Studies published in June 2026 found that humid heat is spreading in India beyond the summer into the monsoon, and that India has more cities among the world's most heat vulnerable than any other country. India's peak power demand reached a record in May, much of it for cooling.