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A woman cools herself off with an ice pack during a heat wave in Banda, Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Heatwaves and lightning notified as national disasters, government says

Simrin Sirur 7 Aug 2026

Mumbai’s informal settlements struggle to power their homes

Rhea Arora 5 Aug 2026
The devastating impacts of the famine on people in then Bellary district, Madras, illustrated for The Graphic (a British weekly newspaper) published on October 6, 1877. Illustration by Horace Harral courtesy of National Portrait Gallery via Public Domain.

Volcanoes, El Niño and colonial policies fuelled two deadly famines in India

Karthik Vinod 30 Jul 2026
Residential settlements near Howrah railway station in West Bengal. Image by Ravi Dwivedi via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India has a railway noise problem but its health impacts are poorly understood

Rohan Singh 29 Jul 2026
A farmer shields herself and her child from the sun while working on a field. Image by Votso Sothu via Pexels.

Heat plans must account for age and gender, says UN Women paper

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 21 Jul 2026
Conocarpus erectus saplings. Representative image by TreeWorld Wholesale via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Why is Conocarpus being banned across states? [Explainer]

Nikhil Sreekandan 20 Jul 2026
A commuter rides through a dense, low-lying blanket of toxic smog at sunset, a common winter and post-monsoon reality along rural Bihar's unmanaged waste dumping tracks. Image by Himanshu Praveen.

The hidden burden of rural air pollution

Himanshu Praveen 17 Jul 2026
An elderly woman suffering from a heat-related ailment is brought to an overcrowded government district hospital in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh in 2023. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

India’s heat response is missing public health logic [Commentary]

Purvi Patel 13 Jul 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
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

Study reveals how air pollution disrupts foetal growth

Simrin Sirur 5 Jun 2026
A lion cub in Gir. Image by Anushree Potdar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

After eight lions die from Babesia infection, treatment and isolation controls spread

Simrin Sirur 2 Jun 2026
Cows feed on biomedical waste dumped near Tirunelveli. Image by Thinakaran Rajamani.

Biomedical waste crosses borders, polluting farmlands

Prasanth Shanmugasundaram 28 May 2026
The mobile Bandhu clinic at the Pathalam Junction in Kerala’s Ernakulam district. In 2024, the World Health Organisation recognised the Bandhu Clinics as one of the 140 global experiences promoting refugee and migrant health. Image by Mahima Jain.

Making services move with migrants facing climate risks

Mahima Jain 1 May 2026
Melting glaciers in Uttarakhand. Global warming and melting glaciers are releasing antibiotic resistance genes into our environments. Image by Sharada Prasad via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Ancient glaciers reveal the roots of antimicrobial resistance

Nupur Fangaria 21 Apr 2026

A generation strives to revive traditional healing

Leesha K. Nair 16 Apr 2026
A green moray eel. Image by P. Lindgren via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

From diversity to monotony, ecological communities are homogenising

Trisha Putturaya, Guha Dharmarajan 9 Apr 2026
Solar panels installed on the roof of a healthcare facility in Meghalaya. Image by Pratik Chakraborty.

Solar energy supports healthcare in outage-prone hilly districts

Jyoti Thakur, Pratik Chakarborty 31 Mar 2026

The last Indian town before Bhutan is reeling under waste dumped on its river banks

Chandrani Sinha 25 Mar 2026
A municipal worker fumigates a densely populated area in New Delhi. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Chronic exposure to air pollution can influence dengue severity, study finds

Lekha Bandopadhyay 18 Mar 2026