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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
Electric scooter manufacturing unit in Tamil Nadu. Image by Gnoeee via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India races to secure rare earth minerals as China restricts exports

Kundan Pandey 16 Jun 2025
Nandita da Cunha reading The Miracle on Sunderbaag Syreet at a school in Mumbai. Image courtesy of Nandita da Cunha.

Children’s literature joins the climate conversation

Sohel Sarkar 16 Jun 2025
Solar panels in Parambikulam Tiger Reserve. Image by Parambikulam Tiger Conservation Foundation via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Pollution Control Board releases draft guidelines for handling solar panel waste

Kundan Pandey 13 Jun 2025

Explosion aboard container ship off Kerala coast

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 13 Jun 2025

New regulations define access-benefit sharing from biological resources

Simrin Sirur 12 Jun 2025

Wildflowers by the wayside – are they weeds? [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 11 Jun 2025
Flying squirrels take off from trees and glide down a slope by extending a membrane called the patagium connecting their front and hind limbs. Image by Pavel Kirillov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Flying squirrel habitats predicted to tailspin under climate change

Bharti Dharapuram 11 Jun 2025

An elusive toad on shared space, farmers and decisions

Sejal Mehta, Kartik Chandramouli, Mohit Negi 10 Jun 2025

Using Indian languages for environmental reporting

Saumitra Shinde 10 Jun 2025
Aerial view of sand mining. The Supreme Court’s verdict striking down the 2017 and 2021 amnesties for environmental violations has significant legal and commercial implications for companies and infrastructure projects. Image by Saiphani02 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Upholding the law, Supreme Court halts amnesties for EIA violators, jolts industry

Akshay Deshmane 10 Jun 2025
Thanks to captive breeding programme and penalties for killings, the Mrs Humes pheasant can now be easily spotted at night at Jessami and Razai Khullen on the Naga Hills. Image by Dhritiman Mukherjee.

The highs and lows of looking for India’s rare birds [Book Review]

Usha Rai 9 Jun 2025
A biodiversity awareness session with devotees at Mahakumbh Mela, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. Image © Anshul Bhawsar.

Education is a powerful tool for biodiversity conservation [Commentary]

Nidhi Singh, Sangeeta Angom 9 Jun 2025
General view of the motorcoach ready for service — First GIPR EMU, 1924. Image courtesy of Central Railway.

The railway journey to net zero began a century ago, but coal slows it down

Esha Lohia 6 Jun 2025

As a treaty breaks, the Indus dolphin faces a different kind of battle [Commentary]

Ajay Sawant 5 Jun 2025