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Climate resilient millets boost livelihood opportunities for Odisha’s tribal women

Aishwarya Mohanty 16 Aug 2022

[Podcast] GigaWhat: Clean-washing by dams?

Mayank Aggarwal, Kartik Chandramouli 13 Aug 2022

Amid challenges, India announces new climate goals with updated NDCs

Manish Kumar 12 Aug 2022

Rethinking, recycling and re-loving: A peek into India’s circular fashion economy

Shilpa Raina 11 Aug 2022

Rehabilitated away from Jharia coalfields, unemployment challenges emerge for the people

Rahul Singh 11 Aug 2022
Image shows a lake under overcast skies in India

A hope for climate-focused urban planning in Assam’s cities reeling from severe floods

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 10 Aug 2022
Image shows plasic containers in a trash heap

Dumped plastic containers lead to mosquito abundance on the Lakshadweep islands

Sahana Ghosh 10 Aug 2022

[Commentary] Scope for more nuanced reporting by media on the Brahmaputra river basin

Sumit Vij 9 Aug 2022
A fisherwoman pulling up her Chinese net using the traditional Khu-il Chingba method in front of a homestay. Photo by Victor Ningthoujam.

Authorities announce “clean up” of Loktak lake; locals fear loss of fishing commons

Donald Takhell 9 Aug 2022
A farmer and her water buffalo in a paddy field.

[Interview] Chukki Nanjundaswamy shares what it takes to train farmers in agroecology

Anna Lappé 8 Aug 2022
Banni in Gujarat, is among the largest grasslands in India, and has been earmarked for large-scale grass plantations via tillage.

[Commentary] Restoring Indian grasslands does not require disturbing soil and planting grasses, but more science

Ashish Nerlekar, Ankila Hiremath 8 Aug 2022

Parliamentary discussions related to climate change are largely missing in India, finds study

Sahana Ghosh 5 Aug 2022

What if we designed homes to stay cool?

Nithya Subramanian 4 Aug 2022

Green fuel startups powering a cleaner future for India

Manish Kumar 2 Aug 2022
During summer months, MGNREGS workers start work before dawn, and try to wrap up before noon. However, such measures aren’t sustainable, say experts. India’s economy is highly dependent on heat-exposed labour with an overwhelming 75% of the labour force, close to 380 million people. Photo by Mahima Jain.

Can MGNREGS work as a social protection scheme for women in heat-stressed areas?

Mahima Jain 2 Aug 2022
A brown bear in Sechu-Tuan Nullah Wildlife Sanctuary

[Commentary] Wild garlic extraction disturbs wildlife around the Sechu-Tuan Nullah Wildlife Sanctuary

Narendra Patil 1 Aug 2022
Civil society members at the project site with banners to protect Mattewara forest and the Sutlej river. Photo by special arrangement.

How Punjab’s civil society prevented an ecological disaster in already polluted Ludhiana

Vivek Gupta 29 Jul 2022

[Commentary] Resolving the conundrum on the precautionary principle

Kanika Jamwal, Aastha Kapoor 28 Jul 2022
Sharavathi river bordered by forests on both sides. Photo by Sarangib/Pixabay.

Karnataka sets green goals but denotifies two-thirds of its forest land in plot twist

Arathi Menon 28 Jul 2022

Human-animal conflict in Kashmir leaves a trail of deaths and psychological impacts

Farzana Nisar, Waseem Dar 27 Jul 2022