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Solar panels installed on the roof of a healthcare facility in Meghalaya. Image by Pratik Chakraborty.

Solar energy supports healthcare in outage-prone hilly districts

Jyoti Thakur, Pratik Chakarborty 31 Mar 2026
Workers install solar panels on the roof of a residential apartment in Kochi, Kerala. (AP Photo/R S Iyer, File)

India’s updated climate plan targets 47% emissions cut and 60% clean power capacity by 2035

Manish Chandra Mishra 26 Mar 2026
A herder with a flock of sheep at Raghwa village in Jaisalmer district, where a 2700 MW solar park has been earmarked. Image by Manu Moudgil.

A 700 km-long foot march to save sacred groves from solar projects

Manu Moudgil 19 Mar 2026
Garbage being collected for segregation at the Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi. The Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi, within which a study reveals higher temperature zones are widening. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s new waste management rules face old implementation gaps

Jyotsnika Tiwari 6 Mar 2026
Workers check the quality of a solar panel at the production line up at a manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Jaipur, Rajasthan. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Budget signals a shift in India’s climate and energy priorities

Kundan Pandey 3 Feb 2026
Tejashri Shelke, the sarpanch of Shelkewadi, stated that all of the homes in the 'Pink Village' are owned by women and symbolically painted pink. Image by Abhijeet Gurjar.

Rooftop solar consumers face uncertainty in Maharashtra

Abhijeet Gurjar 4 Dec 2025
Speakers at the high-level event on building cooperation for scaling climate finance. Image © UN Climate Change - Diego Herculano via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

India, China step into leadership vacuum at climate meet as the West retreats

Soumya Sarkar 21 Nov 2025

India falls in climate performance rankings

Manish Chandra Mishra 20 Nov 2025
Farmers pack cauliflowers harvested at a farm in Pedavuppudu village, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Solar-powered cold storage empowers smallholder farmers

Kavitha Yarlagadda 14 Nov 2025
Workers assemble a car at an electric vehicle plant in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu. (AP Photo/ Rafiq Maqbool)

China challenges India’s domestic manufacturing incentives, alleging unfair trade practices

Kundan Pandey 29 Oct 2025
The Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project. Representative image by Nayan J Nath via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Arunachal Pradesh plans big push for hydropower

Simrin Sirur 10 Oct 2025
Part of the bike rally taken out by fishers dependent on the Panchet dam on September 7. Image courtesy of Rajen Tudu.

Floating solar projects test India’s just transition promise

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 9 Oct 2025
Khejri trees are declining in the Thar desert. Image by Nirmal Verma/Mongabay.

A beloved ‘tree of life’ is vanishing from an already scarce desert

Vishal Kumar Jain 11 Sep 2025

Historical climate data helps predict renewable energy “drought” events

Nandhini Somasundaram 5 Sep 2025
Workers place a panel on the rooftop of a residence in Gurugram. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Rooftop solar dreams turn sour for consumers

Shikha Salaria 28 Aug 2025
Workers install solar panels in Gujarat. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

The price of going green is higher for the Global South

Kundan Pandey 14 Aug 2025
A woman works at a coal depot in Ahmedabad in the summer of 2022, when heatwaves were scorching the country. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Governing land, landscapes and infrastructure for a just energy transition [Commentary]

Sarthak Shukla, Siddharth Sareen 12 Aug 2025
Workers install solar panels in Karim Shahi village, Bhuj district, Gujarat in 2023. India received around $2.4 billion in 2024 for project type interventions in clean energy generation, with solar PVs leading the surge. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Foreign investments are helping drive India’s clean energy boom

Elena Mathew 30 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
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