“I was not born when my family members were displaced from their ancestral land. Till date we have not got what all was promised to us. Now they want to…

The risk of transmission of chikungunya in India increases with a steady spike in average temperatures in the south Asian nation, a climate-based modeling study has said. Researchers suggest the…

Use of chemical pesticides in India, including those that are banned in other countries, has been a matter of concern and a raging topic of discussion in the country. Addressing…

Thirty-year old Lakshmi, a day labourer from Chengam in Tiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu, is grief-stricken at the thought of not being able to grow her favourite flower anymore –…

“We know this jungle like the back of our hands. We have grown up with wild animals around us and already know the basic behavioural limitations,” said 19-year-old Parmeshwari, appointed…

With an aim to reduce the pressure of firewood extraction in forest habitats, conservationists are encouraging forest-dwelling communities in the Cauvery and Malai Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuaries in Karnataka to…

Is time running out for the 260-odd endangered sangai deer which have their only home Manipur? The sangai or the Indian Eld’s deer (Rucervus eldii eldii) resides as an isolated single…

An expert panel of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has deferred recommending an extension of the environment clearance (EC) given to an upcoming 2,640 MW imported…

Can science and faith cooperate for conservation biology? The prevailing and dominant notion is that science and faith are two distinct units that do not and cannot have a common…

Since the development of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in the Western Ghats in 1986 — the first such reserve to have been established in India — active measures have been…

In landslide-prone Giddapahar, a small hamlet nestled in the Darjeeling Himalayas known for its fragrant black tea, Bikash Thapa has become his community’s very own rain man. Aided by his…

Dams are often blamed for worsening the impact of floods. But this time, when Kerala witnessed one of the worst floods in its history, dams are not in the line…

They may be microscopic in size, but bacterioplankton steer major carbon cycling and food webs in aquatic ecosystems. Bacterioplankton are the bacterial component of plankton that live in water bodies,…

In a region where Bt cotton rules the roost, Kamal Kishore Dhiran, a farmer in Balodi, 50 km from Yavatmal (in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra) is an outlier. He has…

What started off as a holiday in the Andamans for educators Supriya Singh and Katarina Roncevic, has turned into a two-country project to train teachers, students and parents on global…

Millions of people residing in the lower reaches of the Ganga basin in India may face food shortage in the next three decades, if the iconic river continues to lose…

On September 5, thousands of farmers, a significant portion of whom are from tribal communities, came from around the country to the national capital for a protest march. Protests are…

Goa's much-highlighted opencast iron ore mining has resulted in significant destruction of tree cover in the iron ore belts, where all vegetation is shaved off to scoop out top soil…

A team of scientists has generated a soil loss map of Uttarakhand, a state in the northwest Himalayas that often makes headlines for devastating landslides and floods that sweep away…

Following efforts to tighten the noose around highly polluting industries, India’s Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), is now pushing for 'self regulation' through installation of the continuous emissions monitoring systems…