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Not everyone’s sold on the global sensation – Miyawaki forests

Annelise Giseburt 3 Jul 2023
Image shows an orchid

Orchids are blooming earlier than usual in the northeast — and it’s not good news

Azera Parveen Rahman 3 Jul 2023
Nordsee One is an offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea. India is also planning to bid out 37 gigawatts (GW) equivalent of offshore wind projects by 2029-30. Photo by Capmat007/Wikimedia commons

Miles to sail to harness offshore wind

Pranav Sinha 29 Jun 2023
People collecting wood in Uttarakhand. Representative image. Photo by Ashutosh Rawat/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Commentary] A decade after relocation, the lives of Van Gujjars still lack stability and security

Akshay Chettri, Neema P. Broome 29 Jun 2023
Some farmers say that they burn the stubble to keep the fields ready for the next crop in a short period of time. Photo by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay.

Madhya Pradesh ranks second in India in stubble burning, farmers unaware of government schemes

Shailesh Shrivastava 28 Jun 2023

A Haryana village opposes construction of government buildings to protect centuries-old trees

Sat Singh 27 Jun 2023

Plastic-rock hybrids found on the Andaman Islands

Vinaya Kurtkoti 27 Jun 2023
At the National Expo XIII (in 2009) that organised by the 'Central Calcutta Science & Cultural Organisation for Youth' at North 24 Parganas. Photo by Biswarup Ganguly/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Explainer] Why do we use jargon when talking about science?

Anusha Krishnan 26 Jun 2023

[Workshop] Environmental economics: Economic valuation of ecosystem services

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2023

India’s potential to address water scarcity through wastewater treatment and reuse

Deepa Padmanabhan 23 Jun 2023

NTPC should acquire stranded coal power plants rather than build new ones, recommends report

Kundan Pandey 22 Jun 2023
Marabou storks are on the verge of extinction in West Africa but in South Africa and East Africa their population has never been larger because they are using urban areas. Photo by Jonah Gula. 

A new study reveals critical gaps in stork research; calls for scrutiny of the IUCN Red List data

Vinaya Kurtkoti 22 Jun 2023

[Commentary] Living off the grid in India’s southernmost district

Geetha Iyer 21 Jun 2023

As temperatures increase, India’s solar sector feels the heat

Arathi Menon 21 Jun 2023

Facing space and resource crunch, North East states to build new shelters for seized wildlife

Nikhil M. Ghanekar 20 Jun 2023

[Commentary] ‘Rescuing’ camels not a solution; Rajasthan needs sanctuaries for its state animal

Ilse Köhler-Rollefson 20 Jun 2023
Image shows the view of an electricity grid tower in India from below

India’s renewable capacity estimated to increase, while reliance on coal to continue, indicates National Electricity Plan

Pranav Sinha 19 Jun 2023

We didn’t start the fire? Speculations over cause of Goa forest fires continue; state plans recovery

Noopur Bhandiwad 16 Jun 2023

[Interview] Money invested in the solar sector skewed towards China and OECD countries: ISA chief Ajay Mathur

Kundan Pandey 16 Jun 2023

[Explainer] What are floodplains and how have they been managed in India?

Vinaya Kurtkoti 14 Jun 2023