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Sulochana Gadgil by Ministry of Earth Sciences via Facebook. Monsoon in the Western Ghats by KV 192 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Sulochana Gadgil: The woman who chased clouds [Obituary]

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 28 Jul 2025
A data server room in Switzerland. Representative image by Florian Hirzinger via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Data centres face physical climate risks, report warns

Priyanka Shankar 28 Jul 2025
Activists demonstrate outside The Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, ahead of the advisory opinion issued on July 23, in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

World court strikes a blow for climate justice, paves the way for demanding action

Soumya Sarkar 25 Jul 2025

What goes into an editorial illustration? [Interview]

Saumitra Shinde 24 Jul 2025
Underground coal miners before entering the pit of Bachra coal mines in Jharkhand. While private investors are expected to fund clean energy infrastructure, addressing socio-economic impacts like job losses will largely depend on public financing as per the expert.

Bridging the climate finance gap in emerging markets [Commentary]

Shantanu Srivastava, Soni Tiwari 23 Jul 2025

Growing pains accompanied by a growing love of the wild [Book Review]

Nandhini Somasundaram 22 Jul 2025

Indian species, Gondwanan roots [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 21 Jul 2025

Global rift over plant treaty as key issues remain unresolved

Kundan Pandey 18 Jul 2025
A highway under construction in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. Image by iMahesh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The long road to regulating earth use for highways and railways

Akshay Deshmane 17 Jul 2025
A wind-solar hybrid energy system installed at Mumbai airport. Image by WindStream Energy Technologies PVT LTD via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

India achieves 50% non-fossil power capacity five years ahead of target

Kundan Pandey 17 Jul 2025
Montagu’s harriers alternate between flapping and soaring flight, and rarely fly above 4,000 m. Image by Thalavaipandi.

The long way might just be the right way for Montagu’s harriers

Sneha Mahale 16 Jul 2025
A power plant in Kolkata. Representative image by Smeet Chowdhury via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Sulphur dioxide emission norms relaxed for thermal power plants

Simrin Sirur 15 Jul 2025
Brown Dipper, a specialist Himalayan riverine bird. Dippers are the most studied riverine birds around the world. They are excellent indicators of water quality and riparian conditions. Image by Nilanjan Chatterjee.

A decline in riverine birds signals deeper problems in the Himalayan rivers [Commentary]

Ankita Sinha 14 Jul 2025
A weather monitoring station at Randullabad, Maharashtra. Representative image by India Water Portal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Improved weather forecasting can help manage renewable energy grid

Kundan Pandey 11 Jul 2025
A cargo ship at the International Container Transshipment Terminal in Kochi. Representative image by ArulkumarRajamani via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Court orders arrest of sister ship from company responsible for cargo spill

Simrin Sirur 11 Jul 2025
Women farmers planting millets, a climate-resilient and water-efficient crop, in Keonjhar district, Odisha. Photo by Tanmoy Bhaduri/IWMI.

AI-based drought advisory tool aimed at enabling early action

Manish Chandra Mishra 11 Jul 2025
A man makes chapatis in Mara village, Morena district, Madhya Pradesh. The SDG on affordable and clean energy shows moderate improvement. Image by Yann Forget via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

India improves performance on SDGs but lags on environment

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 4 Jul 2025
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