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A view of Bengaluru city from an apartment complex in Banashankari. Image by Kushagra140 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Peri-urban building rush fuels urban heat islands

Max Martin 19 May 2025
A delivery agent at work. Representative image by Rowan Freeman via Unsplash.

Urban commons shape the lives of India’s gig workers [Commentary]

Nupur Khanter 14 May 2025
An evergreen forest being felled in Arunachal Pradesh. While forest loss may influence malaria transmission and mortality, the extent of this impact is still being understood. Image by Saurabhsawantphoto via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forests can both help and hinder malaria transmission, mortality

Simrin Sirur 7 May 2025
A wild dog sunbathing in Kanha National Park. Image by Abhiraj1996 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What is heat stress? How does it affect animal hormones? [Explainer]

Phalguni Ranjan 18 Apr 2025
A doctor in a hospital in West Bengal assesses the X-ray of a tuberculosis patient. Image by ILO Asia-Pacific via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Increasing pointers to climate change indirectly impacting tuberculosis rise

T. V. Padma 17 Mar 2025
Meliodosis infections in Odisha tend to be highest during heavy rainfall, high humidity, high cloud cover, and low sunlight conditions. In Odisha, these conditions prevail for half the year. Image by Chinmayee Mishra via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Climate-based mapping of a rare but emerging disease in Odisha

Anusha Krishnan 13 Mar 2025
Campylobacter jejuni food-borne pathogens

Food-borne bugs and their links with climate change come into focus

T. V. Padma 24 Feb 2025

Pune’s Zika and GBS outbreaks call for better use of surveillance, data

Disha Shetty 13 Feb 2025
mosquito Aedes aegypti dengue mortality

Dengue mortality projected to rise in a warming world

Simrin Sirur 28 Jan 2025

When heat rises, incomes fall for the informal workforce

T. V. Padma 3 Jan 2025

Living in fear as tigers leave the woods for the hood

Arathi Menon 27 Nov 2024

Indigenous livestock breeds have evolved to brave harsh climates

Sneha Mahale 26 Nov 2024

Battling infectious, zoonotic diseases despite leading health indicators

Saritha S. Balan 8 Nov 2024

Human equations with their local invasives could be the key to better management

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 23 Oct 2024

Can organic farmers’ markets encourage chemical-free farming?

Arathi Menon 15 Oct 2024

Pollution dips, but fine particulate matter remains top public health threat: AQLI report

Vinaya Kurtkoti 18 Sep 2024

The climate drivers behind southwest India’s intensifying heat waves

Max Martin 3 Sep 2024
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Baby snakes with toxic traits

Arathi Menon 30 Aug 2024

Looking for nutritional gold in wild greens

Arathi Menon 27 Aug 2024
A deserted playground and basketball court in Noida. Image by Shweta Thakur Nanda

Hopscotch to heat watch: How climate change is impacting summer play

Shweta Thakur Nanda 29 Jul 2024