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Mawmluh cave. Image by Wann Majaw via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).

A village turns its geological history into a tourism opportunity [Commentary]

Geetha Iyer 4 Aug 2025

DNA test cracks the case of mistaken quails

Kartik Chandramouli 31 Jul 2025
An aerial view of Tabo village in Spiti, with the monastery visible on the right. Image by Manish Pathak via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Safeguarding vulnerable heritage sites from extreme and erratic weather

Manu Moudgil 31 Jul 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
The rusty-spotted cat known as the hummingbird of cats falls in the ‘Near Threatened’ category in the IUCN Red List . Photo by Radheshyam Bishnoi

Jungle cat most widespread, rusty-spotted cat declining, finds national survey

Manish Chandra Mishra 29 Jul 2025
A foundry in Hyderabad. Corporations in India are largely supportive of science-aligned climate policy, including those in the metals, mining, and energy sectors. Image by Rajesh Pamnani via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Corporate climate strategy needs greater policy engagement, says analysis

Simrin Sirur 29 Jul 2025
Children in Laitmawsiang, Meghalaya. Representative image by Rajesh Dutta via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Mainstreaming climate education for children

Shilpa Raina 29 Jul 2025
A woman stops to drink water from a public tap on a hot summer day in Prayagraj in 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

What rising temperatures are doing to women’s health in India [Commentary]

Sharon Sarah Thawaney 29 Jul 2025
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