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A Russel's viper. Image by CHANDRANUJ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A single pill to fight the fang

Arathi Menon 4 Jul 2025
A welder at work in a steel manufacturing unit. Representative image by Jay Hariani via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Nine projects in India produced ‘problematic’ carbon credits in 2024, says report

Simrin Sirur 2 Jul 2025
A farmer harvests paddy. Representative image by Indranil Gayan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India gets two genome-edited rice varieties

Arathi Menon 2 Jul 2025

SC pauses NGT order amid industry push for coal flexibility

Akshay Deshmane 30 Jun 2025

Surviving a heat stroke, one year later

Simrin Sirur 27 Jun 2025
About 50 villages and hamlets along the Jodhpur-Barmer highway have been suffering from the side effects of the pollutants of the Jojari river since 2007. Image by Nirmal Verma/Mongabay.

Toxic water flows, forcing out people and biodiversity

Vishal Kumar Jain 26 Jun 2025
Heavy rain and flooding in Hyderabad. Image by Rajib Ghosh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

District level mapping of climate extremes

Arathi Menon 25 Jun 2025
Flood-affected areas in Amreli, Gujarat in June 2015. Image by Indian Air Force, licensed under Government Open Data License – India (GODL).

Data deserts and drowning cities [Commentary]

Soumya Bhowmick 25 Jun 2025

Urban green spaces can save more lives if placed right

Nikhil Sreekandan 25 Jun 2025

Asia warming faster than global average, says WMO

Simrin Sirur 24 Jun 2025
In 2006, the United Nations Environment Programme estimated that every square mile (about 2.5 km2 ) of the ocean contained 46,000 pieces of floating plastic, the debris of which is already present on most beaches around the world. Image by Emina Mamaca.

Invisible plastics are changing our oceans [Commentary]

Isha Chawla 24 Jun 2025
Solar water pumps in Nepal. Representative image by Prabuddha Raj via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Running on sunshine but running out of water

Hanan Zaffar, Jyoti Thakur 19 Jun 2025
Roadside trees in Bengaluru. Image by T.R. Shankar Raman via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Green tribunal issues order to stop concretising tree bases

Shailesh Shrivastava 19 Jun 2025
The Tungabhadra river in Hampi, Karnataka. Image by Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

A fascinating book on India’s rivers and their travails [Book Review]

Usha Rai 18 Jun 2025
A man cleans up floral waste. Image by Nico Crisafulli via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Giving floral waste a second life

Shilpa Raina 18 Jun 2025

Most Indians worried about extreme weather or related impacts: survey

Aditi Tandon 18 Jun 2025

A song of rock and ice

Saumitra Shinde 17 Jun 2025
Women at work in a flower farm in Dodballapur, Karnataka. Image by Suneal patel via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Farms turn femme but women still plough through power centres

Arathi Menon 17 Jun 2025
An air conditioner. Image by Dinkun Chen via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Government to reduce AC temperature limits to improve energy efficiency

Simrin Sirur 16 Jun 2025
The marshes of Tso Kar in the Changthang Plateau of Ladakh. The implementation of access and benefit sharing in remote regions is already compromised by the topography and scarcity of resources, and further at risk by the ABS regime. Image by Esha Joshi.

Access and benefit sharing regulations impinge on the rights of local communities [Commentary]

Esha Joshi, Neema P. Broome 16 Jun 2025