'Stop calling me Greta of India', says eight-year-old climate activist from India, Licypriya Kangujam. She took to Twitter to express her feelings in a series of tweets, stating that she has her own identity and began her movement even before Greta started off. Kangjaum has already spoken in 21 countries on climate change and recently made waves at the COP25 Climate Conference.

'Stop calling me Greta of India', says eight-year-old climate activist from India, Licypriya Kangujam. She took to Twitter to express her feelings in a series of tweets, stating that she has her own identity and began her movement even before Greta started off. Kangjaum has already spoken in 21 countries on climate change and recently made waves at the COP25 Climate Conference.

Britain's Court of Appeal on Thursday ruled in favour of green campaigners who oppose the building of a third runway at London's Heathrow airport. The court said the UK government - which in 2018 had approved the Heathrow extension - had failed to take into account its commitments to the Paris Agreement to limit climate warming. The legal action against the approval was brought by various London councils, environmental groups including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth and London Mayor Sadiq Khan. The court ruled that then-prime minister Theresa May had given no explanation of how it took into account the 2015 Paris accord, which seeks to cap climate warming to less than two degrees Celsius.

In perhaps a surprise to no one, India topped the list of the world's most polluted cities in 2019. According to&nbsp;IQAir AirVisual's&nbsp;2019 World Air Quality Report,&nbsp;Ghaziabad&nbsp;is the city with the worst air quality in the world with an&nbsp;an average AQI of 110.2. Overall, 21 out of the 30 world's most polluted cities of 2019 were from India. Others making&nbsp;the top ten were&nbsp;Delhi, Noida, Gurugram, Greater Noida&nbsp;and&nbsp;Bandhwari.&nbsp;In terms of country-wise rankings, India stood at the fifth spot with Bangladesh on top followed by Pakistan, Mongolia and Afghanistan.

According to the&nbsp;World Migration Report 2020, at the end of 2018, there were a total of 28 million new internal displacements across 148 countries and territories and 61% of these were triggered by disasters. The report indicates that, world over, the effect of disasters is displacing more people as compared to other reasons for displacement like conflict and violence.&nbsp;This scenario is especially worrying for the countries of the Indian subcontinent that are more vulnerable to disasters related to natural hazards and climate change, notes the World Migration report.&nbsp;In the last two years, India has been hit by at least one extreme weather event every month.

The third major coral bleaching outbreak could occur in the Great Barrier Reef in five years,&nbsp; If high ocean temperatures in the region do not drop in the next two weeks, according to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Temperatures in the region are already 2 to 3 degrees above average in February. The reef had just begun recovering from two consecutive years of coral bleaching in 2016 and 2017. Coral bleaching occurs when corals spend long periods in warmer than average water.&nbsp;

Kenya has begun mobilising its National Youth Service to try to contain the worst locust outbreak that parts of east Africa have seen in the last 70 years. Young cadets can be seen wearing white protective clothing and engaging in practical exercises to learn more about locusts and how to eradicate them.&nbsp;The mobilisation is supported by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.&nbsp;Involving more people in tackling locusts has become necessary as the invasion - which threatens food security - has now spread from Kenya to South Sudan.

At 38.1 degrees Celsius, Mumbai recorded its hottest day of the year so far on Monday, 17th of February. The temperature recorded by the&nbsp;IMD Santacruz observatory was 7 degrees above normal. Sultry weather is expected to continue in Mumbai&nbsp;for for the next few days. According to&nbsp;reports,&nbsp;it was also the highest temperature for the month of February&nbsp;since 2018.&nbsp;
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Amid the climate crisis, the&nbsp;Luchon-Superbagn&egrave;res resort in the Pyrenees is using helicopters to import snow to avoid closure during the peak skiing season. Almost 50 tonnes of&nbsp; snow was brought from higher regions and dropped on the dry slopes, for children and beginners. This week, temperatures in the region have risen above 10C.&nbsp;

The environmental harm caused by flying is not unknown. While greener fuels and electric engines are some ways to cut&nbsp;carbon emissions, a new study has found another way to do so. A team of scientists&nbsp;at Imperial College London concludes that&nbsp;changing the flying altitude by just couple of thousand feet could reduce the climate damage.&nbsp;This helps in eradicating&nbsp;airplane contrails - the white streaks you see after an airplane has passed.&nbsp;Contrails can block outgoing heat from escaping the earth, acting like a blanket that&nbsp;traps heat.&nbsp;Flying an airplane higher or lower could help get rid of contrails because they only form in thinner areas of atmosphere with high humidity.&nbsp;The team is in discussion with aviation authorities about how their research might work practically.

India is one of the few countries whose actions are compliant with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping the rise in temperature to below two degree Celsius, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday.&nbsp;Addressing COP13 delegates in Gandhinagar via video conferencing from Delhi, Modi said India has been championing climate action based on values of conservation, sustainable lifestyle and green development model.&nbsp;He also said that India is now working to protect migratory birds. "India is one of the few countries whose actions are compliant with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping rise in temperature below 2&nbsp;&deg;C," said Prime Minister Modi.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Day 2 of the Lakme Fashion Week was all about sustainability. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India launched a print campaign to promote vegan fashion. Bollywood actress&rsquo;s Sunny Leone unveiled the advertisement, which shows her own skin being ripped apart to signify how animals are killed and skinned every year for the leather industry.

Researchers from&nbsp;Brazil's National Institute for Space Research have found that almost&nbsp;20 percent of one of the world's largest carbon sinks is releasing more carbon dioxide than it is absorbing. The deforested section of the Amazon forest is becoming a carbon source, a decade-long study shows. According to reports, researchers have been measuring greenhouse gases by flying an aircraft fitted with sensors over different parts of the Amazon basin.

The Statue of Unity in Gujarat is all set to go plastic free by doing away with plastic water bottles, reports TOI. Returnable glass water bottles are being introduced by the forest department in the tourist destination, reportedly. The bottles will contain&nbsp;enhanced&nbsp;Narmada water with herb flavours like tulsi, mint and fennel. The&nbsp;glass bottle plant will be run exclusively by local tribal women. Customers will be able to return the glass bottle or carry it home as a memoir.&nbsp;

School students in Haldwani&nbsp;came together to transform an entire street and spread awareness about the importance of keeping our environment green and clean. They painted the walls based on different themes like 'go green', 'beti bachao'&nbsp;and 'swacchta hi sewa'. The idea was to spread the bigger message of preserving the environment to avoid dire consequences in future.&nbsp;

Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is all set to become a television star! BBC Studios announced that they will be making a TV show with Thunberg. The documentary series will follow Greta's International crusade and the actions she seeks to take to combat the looming climate crisis. It will also showcase her journey into adulthood and her encounters with political leaders, scientists and business people across the globe. There is no confirmation on the number of episodes or the date of release yet.

Five years after plastic roads were made mandatory by the Central Government, Mumbai is all set to get its first one. The Indian Road Congress has issued all&nbsp;asphalt plants to provide material that has a mixture of plastic waste, starting from the 15th of February. Cities like Chennai and Indore have already adopted the method.

Princeton University geochemist,&nbsp;John Andrew Higgins shared a video clip of a chunk of ice being thrown down a 450-feet bore hole. The fall made a strange 'spaceship-like' sound that has intrigued experts. In a follow-up video, a University of Minnesota ecology professor, Peter Neff&nbsp;explains that the sound is a result of the 'Doppler Effect' - caused due to a sudden change in the pitch&nbsp;of sound as the ice block makes its way down the hole.&nbsp;

Global environmental non-profit organization&nbsp;Greenpeace has found that almost&nbsp;2,880 tonnes of plastic waste was exported to Malaysia between January and September last year from Italy. The country has been urged to stop using Malaysia as a dumping ground. The investigation by Greenpeace exposed the environmental and health implications of Malaysia being used as waste ground for unrecyclable plastic. This 'illegal trafficking of plastic' could cost the country&nbsp;a lot, if Italy does not take measures to stop these activities, experts from the organisation said.&nbsp;

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations has issued a warning about twin invasion of desert locusts coming to India starting in May. The officials however said that the country is prepared to meet the challenge. According to the FAO, the world is facing one of the worst infestations of locusts in decades and that could put millions of people, especially in Africa, at risk of starvation. The FAO and UN have made an appeal for $70 million in funds to help fight the locust menace.

In a move that's now causing widespread outrage among animal rights activists, Botswana just auctioned off hunting licenses that grant the rights for trophy elephant hunting in the country. An official ban on the hunting of elephants was uplifted after authorities complained of rising human-animal conflicts. Experts have now dubbed the move as something that could cause a 'major global conservation disaster'. The government has plans to kill a total of 272 elephants&nbsp;during this year's 'hunting season'.&nbsp;

Over 600 kilograms of shark fins were seized at a Miami Port by wildlife inspectors. The shipment, believed to have originated in South America, arrived in 18 boxes and could cost anything between $700,000 and $1 million. Millions of sharks are killed every year by smugglers and then used to create shark fin soup according to conservation groups.

'Stop calling me Greta of India', says climate activist Licypriya

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