If you liked this story, share it with other people. The recent deaths of five tigers by alleged poisoning reveals gaps in wildlife protection and the challenges of conserving forests traversed by ...

Batagur kachuga turtles have been translocated and released in the Ganga river and tagged with sonic devices to monitor them.

Cotton is one of India’s top agricultural exports and between 2011-12 and 2020-21, the country’s cotton exports consumed roughly 40 trillion litres of water. Top cotton-producing districts in ...

A research team is drilling boreholes in Mount Everest’s Western Cwm to understand why Himalayan glaciers are melting faster than expected.

Delhi’s seven biodiversity parks, restored from degraded lands, serve as urban forests. Successful habitat restoration supports native species, while experts urge integrating these parks into city ...

On July 30, 2024, a massive landslide struck the Vellarimala hill ranges in Wayanad district, Kerala, causing fatalities and widespread destruction. Heavy rainfall triggered the landslide.

Agrivoltaics in India faces scalability challenges despite a decade of trials, but innovations in space management and integrated farming systems offer promising solutions.

Towering landfills are testament to poor waste segregation practices in India that have persisted for decades. But India’s mounting, untreated waste is a problem whose consequences go beyond its ...

State governments and organisations are increasingly experimenting with parametric insurance to cope with losses from natural disasters.

Assam’s Majuli island is dotted with an elaborate network of wetlands of varying sizes and characteristics, a marker of the island’s geological past. A large number of people have historically ...

The Western Indian Himalayas are more prone to climate change risks compared to the Eastern Himalayas, a new climate risk index by Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, shows.

Traditional healers from Nepal’s Himalayas are trying to preserve Sowa Rigpa, an ancient medicinal system based on ethnobotany, which has been gradually disappearing as youths move to urban areas and ...