The problem of noise pollution has been slowly but surely turning into a silent epidemic of health in Indian cities. Noise is one of the least discussed environmental issues, despite the fact that it is a category of air pollutant according to the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981. Be it chaotic traffic, loudspeakers, construction sites, and industry, the life of urban dwellers is constantly filled with unsafe sound levels, and most of the time, people do not even think what their long-term effects are.

The village of Dhordo in the Kutch district of Gujarat has gone entirely solar, and this is a significant step in the renewable energy process in India. Dhordo is already known as the Best Tourism Village acknowledged by UNWTO and is the fourth solar village in Gujarat after the previously mentioned Modhera, Sukhi and Masali. Prime minister Narendra Modi will devote this success on 20 September in the Samudra Se Samriddhi event, Bhavnagar.

Brazil has announced that it would be the first nation to commit in the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) a novel multilateral fund that would help in conservation of endangered tropical forests. The project will be officially unveiled at a United Nations event in New York and the project will take center stage during COP30 that will be hosted by Brazil in Belem next November.

The United Kingdom has already made its first deportation under the new returns treaty with France, the deported being an Indian national who had crossed the English Channel in a small boat.

The Oracle Corporation is taking risky steps in the cloud infrastructure market and has positioned itself as one of the major players to provide power to artificial intelligence services to the world tech giants. A Bloomberg report noted that the aggressive investment that the firm made in its cloud business, to serve its customers like OpenAI and Meta have transformed its financial path and leadership framework.