A 7km trek inside the Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala to see the fabulous Thoovanam falls. Mesmerised to see water gushing out from heights but appalled to see the amount of plastic bottles littered around it. Pls respect nature. 🙏🙏 @ParveenKaswan

पिण्याच्या पाण्याच्या संरक्षणासाठी बृहन्मुंबई महानगरपालिकेतर्फे अतिरिक्त उपाययोजना लागू. #Savewater

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Mumbai Records Hottest June Night In 57 Years With 30.2°C Minimum Temperature🚨🌡️ #MumbaiRains getting delayed

El Niño development is firing on all cylinders. Sea temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific have now broken records for five days in a row. Tough times ahead🚨

An UNESCO World Heritage is drowning in its own trash. For many years now @FoundationWaste has been turning the tide managing the islands waste. Now it’s come to a tipping point and needs assistance from @CMOMaharashtra @mpcb_official and corporates @anandmahindra @hvgoenka.

Plastic trash is being dumped in the forests and streams of Pulga, Himachal Pradesh. The Himalayas are not a landfill. Every bottle, wrapper, and plastic bag left behind harms wildlife, pollutes water sources, and damages one of India’s most beautiful ecosystems. @CPCB_OFFICIAL

Mumbai's water stock now stands at just 13.55%! No heavy #MumbaiRains expected in coming days of June. Save water 🙏

RT @hvgoenka: Very hard lines! Something to ponder over….

My calculation suggests India’s consumer price inflation will rise. The mid-east war is a factor, but also India’s economy is not being managed well—The rupee has lost value in a way it needn’t have. This is a reminder that policymaking needs professionals, not politicians.

Attention @mybmc underground water pipeline leakage observed here tonight, with water emerging through the pavement near the roadside. Kindly inspect the issue. Location - Horniman Circle, Fort.

Of Mumbai’s total area of 63,035ha, the green cover was 29,260ha in 1988, which fell to 20,481ha in 1998, 17,331ha in 2008, and 16,814ha in 2018, which means an overall decline of 42.5% over 30 years. The green cover lost is 12,446ha, more than the size of SGNP - 10,300 hectares.

Mumbai is now a free-for all paradise for builders and contractors with friends in power: Cut as many trees as you want, conjure up with ridiculous infra projects worth thousands of crores, build high-rises in places fire engines can't reach.

The heat has been brutal this past week. Temperatures hit 45° in Nagpur, 44° in Ahmedabad, 43° in Prayagraj, 42° in Delhi. Even Bengaluru hit 37°. And we're still in April 😬 A big contributing factor behind rising temperatures is the loss of forest cover, and India has lost a lot of it. Back in 2020, we met the team behind Farmers for Forests (F4F). Their idea was to do agroforestry at scale. The challenge is that farmers can't afford to wait years for trees to pay off, and most tree-planting projects don't survive the first monsoon. The idea was ambitious, and we at @RainmatterOrg backed them early. Most tree-planting in India is monoculture, just rows of one species. But a plantation isn't a forest. F4F plants multi-layer agroforests with fruit, timber, shrubs, intercrops, and native species, trying to mimic what an actual forest does. Six years later, they've gone from 50 acres to 5,000 acres and have just secured funding to reach 40,000 over the next three years. Compared to traditional crop farming, per acre, they're seeing ~4x carbon sequestration, ~3x farmer income, and meaningful improvement in biodiversity and soil health. Still early days, but promising. Those numbers needed to be verifiable. So F4F built TreeLens, an open-source tree-tracking system that uses drone imagery to measure carbon sequestration, tree height, and biodiversity across thousands of small farms. 15 other organisations now use it. The hardest problem in agroforestry is time. Fruit trees take 5 to 7 years to pay off, and most small farmers simply can't wait that long. So F4F is now working with the government and the larger ecosystem to design financial instruments like carbon bonds and first-loss guarantees that protect farmers while the trees grow. Really glad we backed Arti, Aditya, and Krutika early.

RT @RichaChadha: We are on our own. I say this everyday and at the risk of sounding insane, I’ll say it again. If each Indian doesn’t ta…

‼️ An entire wetland in Wadala, Mumbai, was wiped out for an illegal parking lot… run by 3 crooks… dumping 500 truckloads of debris! ‼️ If this can happen in the absolute centre of Mumbai, with a wetland, not knowing 500 trucks are dumping debris, isn’t this also a major security and intelligence failure, indicating authorities are unaware of happenings in the city? As for nature, the government that loves environmental vandalism, can plan its next climate conference or awards on this very site! Tagging @moefcc if it realises its duty to protect environment to step in and ask the Govt of Maharashtra to remove this debris and restore the wetlands.

One by one every single tree will be chopped in Bandra and this doomed city of Mumbai. Temperatures already rising upto 37 degrees in March is only the beginning. @mybmcWardHW hope permissions are in place for felling these trees in private properties, or an FIR is surely coming that way. @MumbaiPolice

At Kedarnath, around 2,300 tonnes of waste accumulated during the last pilgrimage season. With the Char Dham Yatra about to begin, a small request 🙏pls keep a dustbin in your vehicle. The mountains will thank you. #Uttarakhand

When casino culture is aggressively promoted, who cares about the iconic beaches ? Sad to read this. #Goa

Who, in their right minds, would agree to the destruction of Mumbai's coastal guardians?These mangroves are teeming with ecosystems and support the livelihoods of the Kolis. Do you really want a road to replace this divinity?!? 💔😪

Mumbai has experienced the *maximum rise in sea levels* from 1987 to 2021. *More than 10% of its land will be submerged by 2040 due to rising sea levels*. These mangrove trees have protected it for centuries. Is one more road really worth putting our city in harm's way?