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[Video] Fixing fashion’s pollution problem with natural dyes

T. A. Ameerudheen 23 Oct 2023

[Commentary] The Atal Bhujal Yojana, meant to address groundwater depletion, is missing a key part of water flows

Veena Srinivasan, Partik Kumar 20 Oct 2023

[Video] Assessing daily weather from India’s highest meteorological station

Manish Chandra Mishra 12 Oct 2023

Women seaweed farmers seek other jobs while India plans industry expansion

Almaas Masood 10 Oct 2023

[Commentary] India needs a scientific response to mitigate the population of free-ranging dogs

Sutirtha Lahiri 3 Oct 2023

[Obituary] Remembering M. S. Swaminathan

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 2 Oct 2023
Photo by Karolina Grabowska/ Pexels.

[Explainer] What happens when pharmaceutical pollutants enter the environment?

Mahima Jain 29 Sep 2023
Asiatic Wildcat with its kitten in the desert of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Photo by Rasdheshyam Bishnoi.

Hybridisation, roadkills are major threats for the Indian desert cat population

Shuchita Jha 28 Sep 2023
Farmer Mhobatsinh Sindhal stands beside the C. wightii (Guggul) fence in his farm.

From abundance to endangerment to revival, Kachchh’s guggal comes a full circle

Azera Parveen Rahman 26 Sep 2023

[Explainer] Why are intense storms and erratic rainfall events becoming more frequent?

Max Martin 20 Sep 2023
Razak bhai's daughter Sai, hand paints the pots in Tuna. Photo by Azera Parveen Rahman.

Changes in local climate impact Kachchh’s traditional crafts and craftspeople

Azera Parveen Rahman 14 Sep 2023
Sulphur hexafluoride gas circuit breakers in a switchyard. Photo by Dingy/Wikimedia Commons.

[Explainer] What is SF₆? Why should we be monitoring it?

Pranav Sinha 5 Sep 2023

[Explainer] Why mitigating methane emissions matters

Mahima Jain 31 Aug 2023
Vegetable market; Kuchaman, Rajasthan, India

Tackling food loss and waste for climate and food security

Arathi Menon 31 Aug 2023

Glare hazard from solar panels, a safety concern for the airports switching to clean energy

Ravleen Kaur 30 Aug 2023

Indian banks have no plans to step away from coal investments yet, new assessment finds

Simrin Sirur 25 Aug 2023
Image shows a man standing in a straw field behind a fire

Behind Punjab’s smoke screen, Madhya Pradesh’s stubble burning problem goes unnoticed

Shailesh Shrivastava 21 Aug 2023

Madhya Pradesh farmers burn the stubble from rabi harvest, to grow a third crop before kharif

Rakesh Kumar Malviya 16 Aug 2023

[Explainer] Living with microplastics, is not fantastic

Mahima Jain 16 Aug 2023

Ruza, a traditional water harvesting system for the water-scarce mountains

Barasha Das 11 Aug 2023

Gujarat’s indigenous Patanwadi wool and sheep, on a steady fall

Azera Parveen Rahman 1 Aug 2023
Joyeeta Gupta speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Photo by World Economic Forum - Jakob Polacsek/ Flickr.

[Interview] Joyeeta Gupta: The Indian voice for environmental justice at global platforms

Arathi Menon 27 Jul 2023

Communication technologies for deep-sea fishers as cyclones intensify in the Arabian Sea

Max Martin, Sindhu Nepolean 24 Jul 2023

Lab-grown special mosquitoes can be the secret weapon to fight dengue

Mahima Jain 20 Jul 2023
Volunteers cleaning river Thamirabarani. Photo by Vasudevan Sridharan.

[Video] Restoring the perennial Thamirabarani river with people power

Vasudevan Sridharan 19 Jul 2023
Women with palmyra nursery bags. Photo by Balaji Vedharajan.

Palmyra leaf bags substitute plastic nursery bags to support sustainable mangrove restoration

M.T. Saju 18 Jul 2023

Kerala needs long-term plans, not quick fixes, for human-elephant conflict

Asha Prakash 14 Jul 2023

Bihar’s makhana and the wetlands they grow in

Pranav Kumar 12 Jul 2023

Your Environment This Week: Canal top solar, green hydrogen from seawater, foxtail orchids

Mongabay India 7 Jul 2023

Environmentalists raise concerns as work on J&K’s Tawi riverfront continues

Irshad Hussain, Mubashir Naik 7 Jul 2023
People collecting wood in Uttarakhand. Representative image. Photo by Ashutosh Rawat/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Commentary] A decade after relocation, the lives of Van Gujjars still lack stability and security

Akshay Chettri, Neema P. Broome 29 Jun 2023
Some farmers say that they burn the stubble to keep the fields ready for the next crop in a short period of time. Photo by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay.

Madhya Pradesh ranks second in India in stubble burning, farmers unaware of government schemes

Shailesh Shrivastava 28 Jun 2023

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