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[Explainer] Living with microplastics, is not fantastic

Mahima Jain 16 Aug 2023
A nest belonging to a purple sunbird, constructed using anthropogenic waste material, with chicks present. Photo by Preeti Saryan.

Birds use waste to build nests in a Bhopal institute

Ashvita Anand 7 Aug 2023
Volunteers cleaning river Thamirabarani. Photo by Vasudevan Sridharan.

[Video] Restoring the perennial Thamirabarani river with people power

Vasudevan Sridharan 19 Jul 2023

Bihar’s makhana and the wetlands they grow in

Pranav Kumar 12 Jul 2023

Plastic-rock hybrids found on the Andaman Islands

Vinaya Kurtkoti 27 Jun 2023

Kolkata attempts to eliminate ‘legacy waste’ in landfills through biomining

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 26 Jun 2023

Funds remain underutilised by regulators in one of the most polluted regions of India

Vivek Gupta 2 May 2023
Women of Rupaheli Kala village trying to show the impact of pollution due to the factory nearby. Photo by Parul Kulshrestha.

A Rajasthan village claims factory emissions are impacting health; factory has clean chit from pollution board

Parul Kulshrestha 17 Mar 2023
Image shows a fire on a garbage dump

Brahmapuram fumes over waste

Reema Abraham 13 Mar 2023

India gains global prominence in agrochemical production; questions remain on polluting nature of industries

Supriya Vohra 8 Feb 2023
Western Ghats in Kerala. Photo by Shagil Kannur/Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists aim to study how aerosols impact rainfall in the Western Ghats, but it’s complicated

Mohit M. Rao 1 Dec 2022

Mizoram youth protest against the national highways widening project

Nabarun Guha 17 Nov 2022
Medicines

Humans are contaminating Earth’s waterways with medicines, pharmaceutical ingredients

Malavika Vyawahare 5 Oct 2022

Soaring temperatures, black carbon impact glaciers in Drass region of Ladakh

Hirra Azmat 29 Sep 2022
Image shows a mural depicting coal mine workers

Coal will stay strong even as solar shines in India’s energy transition

Kundan Pandey 21 Sep 2022
A thermal power plant in Haryana. Photo by Vikramdeep Sidhu/Wikimedia Commons.

Climate action, pollution control needed to keep sulphur dioxide in check

Manish Chandra Mishra, Sahana Ghosh 14 Sep 2022

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

Shilpa Raina 11 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

[Explainer] What’s causing mass fish death in India’s ponds and lakes?

Ananya Vyas 19 Jul 2022
Garbage burning near East Kolkata Wetlands. Currently, the environmental crisis is viewed only as a pollution problem despite the data and knowledge available on the consequences of climate change.

[Commentary] Environment law needs to go beyond the ‘pollution paradigm’

Sugandha Yadav 18 Jul 2022