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Hidden Gondwanan flavours in our kitchens [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

SC pauses NGT order amid industry push for coal flexibility

Akshay Deshmane 30 Jun 2025

Surviving a heat stroke, one year later

Simrin Sirur 27 Jun 2025
About 50 villages and hamlets along the Jodhpur-Barmer highway have been suffering from the side effects of the pollutants of the Jojari river since 2007. Image by Nirmal Verma/Mongabay.

Toxic water flows, forcing out people and biodiversity

Vishal Kumar Jain 26 Jun 2025
Heavy rain and flooding in Hyderabad. Image by Rajib Ghosh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

District level mapping of climate extremes

Arathi Menon 25 Jun 2025
Flood-affected areas in Amreli, Gujarat in June 2015. Image by Indian Air Force, licensed under Government Open Data License – India (GODL).

Data deserts and drowning cities [Commentary]

Soumya Bhowmick 25 Jun 2025

Urban green spaces can save more lives if placed right

Nikhil Sreekandan 25 Jun 2025