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[Book Review] Tackling climate crisis, the science fiction way

Ashish Kothari 18 Mar 2021
A home that flooded in Kerala in 2018. Photo by Dilshad Roshan/Wikimedia Commons.

Floods, cyclones caused maximum deaths by extreme weather events in past 50 years

Sahana Ghosh 9 Mar 2021

Genomics offer clues to how forest trees responded to the last Ice Age

Sahana Ghosh 5 Mar 2021

Beasts that once roamed the Indian subcontinent could hold clues to evolution and extinction

Sahana Ghosh 24 Feb 2021
Melting glaciers of Nanda Devi mountains, Chamoli, India. Photo by Naresh Chandra/Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists analysing Uttarakhand floods highlight need to improve monitoring of glaciers

Sahana Ghosh 12 Feb 2021

Research and resources are two pillars of India’s draft Arctic policy

Sahana Ghosh, Mayank Aggarwal 22 Jan 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden at a rally in Iowa in October 2020. Photo by Adam Schultz / Biden for President.

President Biden’s climate agenda could be a boost for international efforts

Ashoka Mukpo 21 Jan 2021

A single-celled organism threatens the vast Arabian sea and the millions that depend on it

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Jan 2021

[Book review] Indian environmental history for young adults

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 19 Jan 2021

Climate adaptive and saline water-resistant Pokkali rice could be the variety of the future

K.A. Shaji 15 Jan 2021
Aerial views of Brahmaputra river. Photo by Ashwin Kumar/Wikimedia commons.

Ancient tree rings shed light on Brahmaputra’s flood risk

Sahana Ghosh 14 Jan 2021

India’s SOP to deal with feral and stray dogs in tiger reserves lacks the bite

Sahana Ghosh, Mayank Aggarwal 7 Jan 2021
Spot-billed pelican nesting sighted at the Pallikaranai marshland in this season. Photo by KVRK Thirunaranan.

Cyclones brought relief to migratory birds in parched Tamil Nadu but more action is needed

Nalini Ravichandran 4 Jan 2021
Angami Naga tribe innovated the Alder coppicing system by retaining and pollarding nitrogen fixing Alder trees that facilitates fallow regrowth in Khonoma village, Nagaland. Photo by Joli R. Borah.

Building up carbon sinks in northeast India’s shifting cultivation landscape

Sahana Ghosh 25 Dec 2020

Environmental issues in agriculture a silent reason behind farmers’ protests

Mayank Aggarwal, S. Gopikrishna Warrier 8 Dec 2020

Indian government forms national panel to drive Paris Agreement goals

Mayank Aggarwal 2 Dec 2020
Biofilm formation on Pangong Tso sediment (a large pebble). Photo by Praveen Rahi.

Bacterial communities point to human influence on Pangong Tso water

Sahana Ghosh 23 Nov 2020

Joe Biden’s presidency offers a return to climate change dialogue between India and the U.S.

Mayank Aggarwal, Sahana Ghosh 18 Nov 2020

How wildlife outside protected areas responds to climate extremes

Sahana Ghosh 11 Nov 2020
The Sandynallah valley where the team did its sampling. Photo by Sarath Kavil.

The Todas may have moved up the Nilgiris 3500 years ago: study

Sahana Ghosh 4 Nov 2020