The Green Collectors

Puneet A

The sky we stopped watching

Two things happened in August 2026, twenty days apart. On August 6, Google released a cyclone forecasting model built with the US National Hurricane Center and the UK Met Office and gave the code away. It buys forecasters roughly an extra day of warning. In this field, a day is about a decade of ordinary

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“Sustainable living should not feel punishing”

Kalki Koechlin has long stood out for her unconventional choices, whether in films, plays, podcasts or web series. Beyond her craft, her deep connection with nature shapes her advocacy for mindful consumption and systemic change. In an interview with Preetha Banerjee, Koechlin reflects on the roots of her ecological awareness, the tensions between individual and

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As El Niño strengthens, coral reefs face narrow windows for recovery

As UN Secretary-General António Guterres says, El Niño is being “supersized” by a warming climate. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warns that coral reefs are being hit by new bleaching events before they have had time to recover from earlier ones. UNEP likened reefs to “an overmatched boxer” taking repeated blows, citing findings from the

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Open Channels FM: OCN Week in Review #5: Scale, Adaptation, Verification and Infrastructure

This week on Open Channels News, discover how AI is changing hardware, security reports, and gaming, plus the latest WordPress and enterprise data updates. Explore our concise wrap-up of major open source and tech stories, along with the recurring themes shaping the industry’s future.

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Wayanad is losing its cool: India’s closely watched Western Ghats hill district is getting warmer

For years, Wayanad in Kerala has been watching its weather more closely than perhaps any other hill district in India. The Hume Centre for Ecology and Wildlife Biology, based in district headquarters Kalpetta, has built a community weather-monitoring network across the district, measuring rainfall and temperature at hundreds of locations. What began after the devastating

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