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As the summer sets in over India every year, there is an announcement that the country waits for – on how the coming monsoon will fare. Much hinges on this…

Around a month ago, an Indian film star shared a video of dolphins near Mumbai shores, on social media. She attributed their appearance to the fresh air following the shutdown…

Earlier this month, after a tiger in the Bronx Zoo in New York tested positive for COVID-19, authorities in India had put the zoos and protected areas, including the national…

Wildlife volunteers associated with the municipal corporation of Indian metropolis Bengaluru in Karnataka, are receiving a flurry of calls from citizens to clear bats from trees, even as leading conservationists…

As India completes almost a month of a government-mandated lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus, cities with poor air quality have been reporting cleaner air and lower pollution…

I started my post-graduate work on potato in 1947 at the Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. Growing up in Tamil Nadu, I had witnessed the damage to the…

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), an inter-governmental treaty signed by 184 countries, dubbed it an “unfortunate coincidence” that during the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) in 2020, the…

In the midst of COVID-19 lockdown, a tweet highlights that the economy is about to collapse because we are now consuming only what we ‘need’. This post does not surprise…

Around three months have passed since the city of Wuhan in China was put under lockdown. Since then, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has swept the globe, with over two…

“I have a lawn in my house and developing a kitchen garden was always on the back burner. But due to one or the other reason I was never able…

While India should prioritise health and economic recovery in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis, there will also be an opportunity for clean energy transition as part of coping strategies…

Scientists around the world are peeping into poop and wastewater for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) to come up with surveillance techniques to warn if the virus is circulating in a…

Nilesh Nakhawa was out in the sea in his purse seiner for eight days. On March 23, the 41-year-old fisherman landed at Sassoon Docks, Mumbai, in the western state of…

As unconfirmed reports of a novel coronavirus disease-associated nation-wide lockdown swirled in India ahead of the official announcement on March 24, Savita, a domestic help in Mumbai, India’s commercial capital,…

The Chinese New Year is a time to visit families and ancestral lands. It began with the Little Year (January 17 to 24), followed by the main Spring Festival (January…

Forced by crop failures due to the delayed monsoon in 2019, Dipu, a farmer from the Sundarbans islands in east India, moved to Tamil Nadu on the south-eastern coast in…

The government of People's Republic of China announced that the over-arching theme for the forthcoming fifteenth Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD-CoP 15) would be "Ecological…

Bharat Patel, a farmer in village Valvada in Valsad area in Gujarat, grows chilli and brinjal on his 22-acre farm. His crops are ready for harvest but the ongoing lockdown…

When 2020 started, environmental groups around the world, and in India, were in the throes of nervous excitement. We were entering the last decade in which humanity would have the…

Yashoda, 52, lives in her mother’s house with her husband and four children, a dog called Babuli, a white cat that meanders around, a hen and her chicks. Her 150-year-old…