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Deer Park on the way to Tirumala. Photo by Hemanth/Wikimedia Commons.

More climate change variables needed in 16th Finance Commission’s tax distribution formula, say experts

Kundan Pandey 6 Oct 2023

India needs to face challenge of funding thermal power plant closure, says new report

Simrin Sirur 5 Oct 2023

Scavenging hyenas save carcass disposal costs

Neha Jain 4 Oct 2023

[Commentary] India needs a scientific response to mitigate the population of free-ranging dogs

Sutirtha Lahiri 3 Oct 2023

[Obituary] Remembering M. S. Swaminathan

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 2 Oct 2023

Architect of India’s Green Revolution, agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan passes away

Kundan Pandey 2 Oct 2023

Off-grid, standalone solar pumps under government scheme remain underutilised

Parul Kulshrestha, Kundan Pandey 29 Sep 2023
Photo by Karolina Grabowska/ Pexels.

[Explainer] What happens when pharmaceutical pollutants enter the environment?

Mahima Jain 29 Sep 2023

With no primary data on impacts, government approves an oil extraction technique 500 m outside forests

Simrin Sirur 28 Sep 2023
Asiatic Wildcat with its kitten in the desert of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Photo by Rasdheshyam Bishnoi.

Hybridisation, roadkills are major threats for the Indian desert cat population

Shuchita Jha 28 Sep 2023

When citizens take ownership of urban commons

Arathi Menon 27 Sep 2023

Climate change undermining achievement of 2030 SDGs

Simrin Sirur 27 Sep 2023
A herd of elephants in Assam.

Farmers grow paddy for wild elephants in Assam to reduce conflicts

Biswajit Das, Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2023
A truck trying to cross the river in Himachal Pradesh.

Monsoon left widespread destruction and uneasy questions in Himachal

Vivek Gupta 26 Sep 2023
Farmer Mhobatsinh Sindhal stands beside the C. wightii (Guggul) fence in his farm.

From abundance to endangerment to revival, Kachchh’s guggal comes a full circle

Azera Parveen Rahman 26 Sep 2023

Megaherbivores could be a potential solution to manage invasive plants, finds study

Simrin Sirur 25 Sep 2023

Darkness-loving bats are being nudged out of the shadows

Vasudevan Sridharan 22 Sep 2023

Excavating farmlands for highways

Sat Singh 21 Sep 2023

Bioinvasions are a global threat to ecosystems, says IPBES report

Arathi Menon 21 Sep 2023

[Explainer] Why are intense storms and erratic rainfall events becoming more frequent?

Max Martin 20 Sep 2023