In Vadhavan village, located in the Dahanu taluka of Maharashtra, the inter-tidal zone stretches over five square kilometres, interspersed with rocks and small pools dense with green marine algae or…
“There is the blazing sun above and scorched earth beneath us,” laments 28-year-old Yelamma while sitting under a tree outside her tarpaulin and tin hut in Hyderabad, Telangana. Telangana has…
Years after Bihar banned alcohol, its active ingredient, ethanol, is finding a fresh use. The central government has approved 47 ethanol plants in the state, of which at least 32…
Traditionally, crowded cities may seem like unlikely places for wild species to thrive, given the impacts on critical behaviours like roosting and reproduction. However, recent research challenges this assumption, revealing…
Every monsoon, Deoji Vaman Medge’s rice field gets flooded with rainwater that brings along debris and rocks from the adjoining hill, damaging the crop. A resident of Kharpud village in…
Agroforestry, the amalgamation of agriculture and forestry within the same land area, may seem straightforward, yet its intricacies often require significant scientific intervention to optimise outcomes. Traditional methods for evaluating,…
Residents of over 15 villages in the West Singhbum district of Jharkhand have been consuming poor quality drinking water from traditional chuas or shallow pits. These pits, about five feet deep,…
Two wild cats found in India – Pallas’ cat and Central Asian lynx – have been included in the list of migratory species to be conserved under the Convention on…
Mudskippers, a group of unique amphibious fish, stand out as marvels of evolutionary adaptation. They live in the intertidal habitats of mudflats and in mangrove ecosystems. They can move on…
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in its country profile for India notes that though the country's landmass covers only 2.4% of the world's land area, it packs…
The installation of solar water pumps has transformed the lives of the Buddhist nuns at the Pangmo Monastery in Himachal Pradesh, enabling them to maintain their daily prayer routine, especially…
The 1960s were the years of severe food grain shortage in India. The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, inquired if technical solutions were available anywhere in the world to increase…
With the rapid extinction of biodiversity, our flora and fauna, are there too many books presenting a doomsday scenario? I don’t think so. The situation is so dire that there…
There’s an important number in the world of climate change jargon that scientists and politicians have warned not to cross. Foreboding headlines say we are getting closer and closer to…
“The earth has a fever,” scientists say rather poetically. This means that it is beginning to cross the thresholds of 1.5 and 2 degree Celsius (°C) temperature rise compared to…
In 1819, the British collector of Coimbatore, John Sullivan, was attracted by the Nilgiris mountains that he saw in his jurisdiction. Sullivan even built a home for his family, in…
Said to be the three pillars of Indian democracy -- the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary, have maintained a calibrated balance since the Independence. However, the economic reforms initiated…
A water tanker is stationed in an alley in Delhi, around which hundreds of people gather. There is screaming, shouting and chaos. Several pipes are inserted into the belly of…
In the Garhwal Himalayas, women hugged trees as part of the Chipko movement to protect them from being cut down. Environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna staged long fasts along the Bhagirathi river…
India has 718 snow leopards according to a report released earlier this month, by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, which estimated, for the first time, the number…
