Sky-bound Navi Mumbai airport leaves project-affected behind
The flight has been delayed by a few years but the runway is now ready for the work of Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai airport to finally take off. Once it gathers…
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The 11-year-old who’s holding governments accountable for inaction on climate change
Along the Ganga, in the ancient city of Haridwar in Uttarakhand, a precocious 11-year-old girl is bristling with anger. Ridhima Pandey is tired of global leaders not paying enough attention…
Water woes: Kutch’s age-old Ajrakh craft faces its nemesis, once again
Sitting in his workshop in Ajrakhpur near Bhuj in Gujarat, India's westernmost state, Sufian Khatri gingerly holds a pale-yellow, naturally-dyed piece of sample cloth. Animal and floral motifs in a…
Protesting against neglect, Manibeli village in the Narmada valley decides to boycott Maharashtra polls
At a time when election fervour is at its peak in Maharashtra and political parties are sweating it out to lure voters with tall promises, residents of the Manibeli village…
India’s millennium city is choking
Gurugram of Haryana is often referred to as the millennium city of India. However, behind the shine and glitter lies an ailing population. Soaring levels of air pollution in the…
Named after ‘bhujia’, a new species of underground fish pops up in Kerala
What lurks underground, is miniature and resembles bhujia, a popular Indian snack, when preserved? A very special fish called the Bhujia eel loach. Bhujia eel loach (Pangio bhujia), a new…
Preparedness remains inadequate even as floods become an annual affair in Kerala
The wounds of the 2018 floods had not fully healed when disaster struck Kerala again in August 2019 in the form of floods, landslips and debris slide. According to the…
Salt pans save Mumbai from floods. So why are they under threat?
In the run-up to the Maharashtra legislative assembly elections on October 21, 2019, the state’s Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, has announced several projects to woo voters. But one such announcement…
Your Environment This Week: The Aarey divide, Mumbai and Delhi’s waste issue, drug resistance in farm animals
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. To receive a weekly email with a roundup of our stories, please sign-up to our newsletter. Ready to lose life, but…
India’s megacities, Mumbai and Delhi, sitting on a pile of waste
India’s financial capital, Mumbai, and the national capital, Delhi, are the country’s top two metro cities when it comes to solid waste generated per day. Together, it is estimated, they…
