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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 carbon garden at Delhi University. Image by Dinabandhu Sahoo.

A carbon garden reimagines urban greenery

Shweta Thakur Nanda 26 Jun 2026
A forest fire rages during the summer in Dharmshala, Himachal Pradesh in 2022. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia, file)

Rising temperatures, not just human activity, drives Himalayan forest fires

Simrin Sirur 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
A Russel's viper in a human habitation. Image by Sandeep Das.

Snake sightings rise even when snakebite deaths fall

Arathi M.R. 22 Jun 2026
An Indian wolf spotted in the grasslands of Kiraksal. Image by Himesh Gahir/Green Hub.

Village documents 600 species through a community-led survey

Vinaya Kurtkoti 22 Jun 2026

Forest clearance for dam puts white-bellied herons at risk

Simrin Sirur 19 Jun 2026
A rural woman operates an electrical control box that powers irrigation pumps for agricultural fields. Image by Vraj Acharya, WELL Labs via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bonn talks signal a new energy transition narrative, even as old divides persist

Kundan Pandey 19 Jun 2026
A dwarf honey bee colony built on bushes and branches in Bengaluru. Image by Bharath Kumar A.K.

India’s native dwarf honey bee faces a quiet urban crisis

Nivedhika Krishnan 19 Jun 2026
Researchers measure the length of the Indian tree frog (Polypedatus maculatus). During the monsoon, this tree-dwelling species breeds in ephemeral pools found across the foothills of the Western Ghats. Many of these pools are now being developed into deeper waterbodies. Image by Madhushri Mudke.

Study finds urbanisation is reshaping frog communities in the Western Ghats

Ananya Singh 18 Jun 2026
A pair of chinkaras at the Mayureshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra. Image by Dr Caesar Photgraph via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

The chinkara’s future may be less secure than its conservation status suggests

Manjeera Gowravaram 18 Jun 2026
Municipal workers rescue fish from a dried lake at Ratanpura in Ahmadabad, Gujarat, during a drought in 2016. Representative image. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

El Niño forecast increases likelihood of weak monsoon and water stress

Phalguni Ranjan 18 Jun 2026
A construction labourer at work at the rehabilitation township. Image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

Landslide survivors wait for a place to call home

Simrin Sirur 17 Jun 2026
Dharani Saikia speaks with a person affected by fluorosis. Image by Nabarun Guha.

In rural Assam, fluoride in groundwater is bending bones

Nabarun Guha 16 Jun 2026
The 2023 Beas floods washed away a segment of the Manali-Leh Highway, with the snow-capped peaks near the Beas Kund glacier visible in the background in Manali. Image by Sumit Mahar/Himdhara Collective.

Climate resilience in Himachal begins with spatial planning [Commentary]

Prateek Draik 16 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