The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and Down To Earth released the State of India's Environment (SOE) 2026 report at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2026, the annual flagship environmental assessment first published in 1982. The report warns that seven of the nine planetary boundaries have now been breached due to human activities, including climate change, biosphere integrity, land system change, freshwater depletion, biogeochemical flows, novel entities and ocean acidification, signalling intensifying ecological degradation. On extreme weather, the report finds that India recorded extreme weather events on 331 of 334 days from 1 January to 30 November 2025, meaning roughly 99 percent of days witnessed at least one extreme event somewhere in the country, with at least 4,419 people losing their lives to such events in 2025, the highest frequency and impact in the past four years. The report flags significant gaps in air quality monitoring, noting that only about 15 percent of India's population lives within 10 kilometres of a continuous air quality monitoring station, leaving roughly 85 percent or over 1.2 billion people outside measurable monitoring zones. It also links rising tiger attacks to habitat pressure, increasing tiger populations and greater human settlements near forests and tiger territories, intensifying human-wildlife conflict. The SOE 2026 underscores the urgent need for stronger climate adaptation, expanded environmental monitoring infrastructure and conflict mitigation as India faces rapid warming and ecological stress.