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Plastic waste collected behind an industrial area near Mumbai. Plastic production contributes about 3.7% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Image by Ravleen Kaur.

Communities near petrochemical plants pay the price for plastic convenience

Ravleen Kaur 19 Sep 2025

Elusive Eurasian otter spotted in Goa for the first time

Simrin Sirur 18 Sep 2025
Workers install metal mesh sheets on the banks of Bellundur Lake to prevent industrial pollution from spilling on to the road in Bangalore. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

External auditors to ‘supplement’ monitoring efforts of pollution authorities

Simrin Sirur 17 Sep 2025

India’s urban-rural air quality divide

Bharti Dharapuram 15 Sep 2025

Rethinking conservation finance with basic income for nature [Commentary]

Munib Khanyari 10 Sep 2025

Lives, homes and crops lost as Punjab faces the worst flood in decades

Manu Moudgil 9 Sep 2025

The dark side of bright lights

Krishna Kakani 8 Sep 2025

The search for the Jerdon’s courser needs to be deepened [Commentary]

Ronith Urs 8 Sep 2025

Historical climate data helps predict renewable energy “drought” events

Nandhini Somasundaram 5 Sep 2025

Green credit rules tweaked to favour canopy cover, remove trade provision

Simrin Sirur 4 Sep 2025
A representative image of cosmetic products. Image by Bairavi Arjunan3 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Behind the shimmer, the toxic story of mica and forever chemicals [Commentary]

Trisha Putturaya and Chirag Dhara 3 Sep 2025
Blackbucks in Jayamangali Blackbuck Conservation Reserve area in Karnataka’s Tumkur district. Image by Seshadri K.S.

Blackbucks thrive outside a fragmented protected reserve

Aisiri Amin 3 Sep 2025

A push for the bush frog

Arathi Menon 2 Sep 2025
A stray dog in Kolkata. In 2024 and 2025, the Centre issued advisories urging Urban Local Bodies to set up Animal Birth Control units and carry out large-scale sterilisation programmes. Image by Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-3.0).

Street dogs in the spotlight as rabies eradication deadline comes closer

Kundan Pandey 2 Sep 2025

Scientists turn to speed breeding to develop resilient, high yield crops

Hirra Azmat 2 Sep 2025
Kuribeel in Manas National Park. Image courtesy of the Office of the Field Director, Manas Tiger Reserve. 

Two decades after civil unrest, wildlife makes a steady recovery

Shailesh Shrivastava 1 Sep 2025
An aerial view of the Sundarbans, showing the species-wise zonation. Image by Touhid Biplob via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What is ecological succession? [Explainer]

Phalguni Ranjan 1 Sep 2025
A physically disabled man rests as commuters cross a waterlogged street in 2013 in Guwahati. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Is India’s disaster preparedness inclusive enough?

Aisiri Amin 29 Aug 2025
A woman washes clothes near a well. Most village wells in Melghat contain murky water, which women use to wash clothes and utensils, leading to diseases and infections. Image by Abhijeet Tangde.

Despite dams and water schemes, tribal villages live with drought

Kiran Gite, Vinaya Kurtkoti 28 Aug 2025
Great Indian Bustards feed on termites in the soil. Image by Late Radheshyam Bishnoi.

The state of the great Indian bustard leaves no room for bad eggs [Commentary]

Sumit Dookia and Mamta Rawat 28 Aug 2025