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Proposed solar project in India’s largest grassland sparks conservation concerns

Ronak Gajjar 8 Jul 2026
A man navigates the waterways through the Picharavam mangroves, collecting wild halophytes have taken root alongside the salt-tolerant mangrove trees following restoration near Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Why feasibility matters for land use projects in India [Commentary]

Sayanta Ghosh, J.V. Sharma 7 Jul 2026
A waste worker segregates items at the edge during a fire at the Bhalswa landfill in New Delhi. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Burning waste is a waste of money

Ravleen Kaur 2 Jul 2026
Labourers work in an iron and steel factory on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

Trade liberalisation meets carbon tariffs as India eyes EU market [Commentary]

Soutrik Goswami, Isha Sharma 30 Jun 2026
A vendor selling helmets rests at a bus stand on a hot summer day in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

India’s banks are sitting on a heat risk they have barely begun to price [Commentary]

Namita Vikas 29 Jun 2026
Reena Kashyap moulds bricks at night. Image by Shivan Bhardwaj.

Night shifts help brick kiln workers avoid peak heat, not its consequences

Shivam Bhardwaj 26 Jun 2026
A farmer inspects his destroyed crop of sugarcane following drought in Marathwada region, Maharashtra, in 2016. Representative image. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Centre identifies over 300 vulnerable districts amid El Niño, weak monsoon fears

Kundan Pandey 25 Jun 2026
A labourer prepares steel furniture at a factory. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Financing the green shift remains a hurdle for steel MSMEs

Rohini Krishnamurthy 24 Jun 2026
Workers install a solar panel on the rooftop of a residence in Gurugram, Haryana. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Rethinking India’s climate plan through equity, delivery and intent [Commentary]

Ravi Shankar Prasad, Mohana Manimaran 23 Jun 2026
Molten metal being poured into a mould at Caspro. Image by Rohini Krishnamurthy.

European Union border tax tests India’s small iron and steel businesses

Rohini Krishnamurthy 16 Jun 2026
Machine operators work on cell printing for solar panels in Mundra, Gujarat, at a manufacturing unit where solar energy components are made from scratch. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Efficiency mandates can build India’s clean tech sovereignty [Commentary]

Ajay Mathur 15 Jun 2026
A man collects water from a well as a woman washes clothes in Mumbai. Representative image. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

An unregulated groundwater economy drills into trouble

Esha Lohia 12 Jun 2026
A woman collects leaves from a forest in West Bengal. A GEF-backed project will engage more than 25,000 people, at least half of them women, in identifying, mapping and managing community-managed forests. Image by Sagnik Samanta via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Three states to pilot community-led forest management

Joydeep Gupta 11 Jun 2026
Labourers plant saplings as part of an tree plantation project. Representative image. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Rethinking forest restoration beyond tree cover [Commentary]

Dhanapal Govindarajulu, Johan Oldekop 8 Jun 2026
People gather to oppose mining activities. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla.

A bauxite mining project, contested consent and growing tensions

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 1 Jun 2026
A construction crew works on a public ropeway project. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Urban Challenge Fund’s promise rests on implementation capacity [Commentary]

Ravikant Joshi 26 May 2026
A woman prepares a meal using coal. Representative image. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Coal for cooking during LPG crisis raises questions over health risks

Umesh Kumar Ray 22 May 2026
A cow walks on a dried lake in the summer. Representative image. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

As temperatures rise, cattle industry feels the strain

Himanshu Arya 19 May 2026
Freshly harvested paddy grains being inspected. Image courtesy of  CG Khabar.

Assured paddy prices reshape farms

Ayushi Sharma 15 May 2026
A farmer weeds her barley field in Naddi village in Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Climate change and tourism are reshaping farming in the Himalayas

Rozita Singh 14 May 2026
State Disaster Response Force personnel head to rescue affected people after heavy rainfall in Guwahati in April 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

While the world hesitates, India must continue leading on climate [Commentary]

Minal Pathak, Vaibhav Chaturvedi 12 May 2026
A shepherd grazes her sheep near a solar power plant in Pavagada Tumkur district, Karnataka. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

States hold the key to India’s energy transition [Commentary]

Tanya Rana, Ruchita Shah 6 May 2026
Volunteers remove water logging in potholes after heavy rain in Kochi, Kerala, in 2022. (AP Photo/ R S Iyer)

Better urban services require citizen participation [Commentary]

Katie Pyle, Neha Malhotra Singh 4 May 2026
Sub-tropical pine forests in Himachal Pradesh. Image by Meenakshi Kapoor.

Rules for forest conservation may facilitate diversions [Analysis]

Meenakshi Kapoor 30 Apr 2026
A natural farming practitioner works at her farm in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. The National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture frames soil health, water-use efficiency, and biodiversity conservation as agricultural priorities. Representative image. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India’s farms do ecological work that no policy has accounted [Commentary]

Deepanjana Saha, Prasanna N.S., G. Ravikanth 29 Apr 2026
A man fishes from the flood waters at Ghatal, west of Kolkata in 2015. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Environmental issues underrepresented in West Bengal polls

Nabarun Guha 27 Apr 2026
Flowers bloom on a palash tree. For generations, Dalit communities in Palamu have gauged the weather by the palash blooms. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla.

The flame of the forest is fading; can it return?

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 24 Apr 2026
A woman balances a water can on her head as people collect water from a mobile water tanker in drought-stressed New Delhi. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Urban finance reforms gather pace, but key gaps persist [Commentary]

Ravikant Joshi 21 Apr 2026
Veli-Akkulam backwaters. Beneath the calm surface, three decades of ecosystem modelling show a fraying food web, with broken links and top predators, including fish and birds, in decline. Rajithmohan via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-3.0)

Invasive species and waste are redrawing an estuary’s food web

Max Martin 14 Apr 2026
A high-level ministerial dialogue on climate finance at COP29. Image by Mike Muzurakis via IISD/ENB.

India withdraws bid to host UN climate conference in 2028

Kundan Pandey 13 Apr 2026
In parts of Sribhumi district, farmers like Abdul Rozak have shifted entirely to the cultivation of winter crops, mostly vegetables. Image by Debarun Choudhury.

Climate variability in a floodprone region is worsening impacts on agriculture

Debarun Choudhury 3 Apr 2026
Fisherfolk store their day's catch to bring to shore in Chellanam, Ernakulam, Kerala, in March 2023 just before the onset of summer. Representative image. (AP Photo)

Humid heat rises on the coasts of India impacting health

Max Martin, Job Rajayyan 2 Apr 2026

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