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Tender coconut waste piled up on the roadside in Nangal, Punjab. Photo by Ravleen Kaur.

Tender coconut waste proves to be a tough nut to crack

Ravleen Kaur 3 May 2024

To tackle air pollution, scale up monitoring, factor in health and stop ad hoc management say experts

Simrin Sirur 10 Nov 2023

Architect of India’s Green Revolution, agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan passes away

Kundan Pandey 2 Oct 2023

Punjab implements policy to prioritise pedestrians

Vivek Gupta 19 Sep 2023
Image shows a man standing in a straw field behind a fire

Behind Punjab’s smoke screen, Madhya Pradesh’s stubble burning problem goes unnoticed

Shailesh Shrivastava 21 Aug 2023

Organic agriculture critical for generating indigenous, clean fuel

Ravleen Kaur 1 Mar 2023

Punjab sticks to paddy amid depleting groundwater

Vivek Gupta 24 Jan 2023
Asia's largest Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant. The Plant with a total capacity of 33.23 ton CBG per day has been operationalized at village Bhuttal Kalan (Sangrur) in April, 2022. Photo by Invest Punjab/Government of Punjab

Lack of market support for bio-manure hindering growth of compressed biogas plants

Manish Kumar 20 Jan 2023

Stubble burning is back, smothering north India with concerns for the upcoming winter

Vivek Gupta 13 Oct 2022
Civil society members at the project site with banners to protect Mattewara forest and the Sutlej river. Photo by special arrangement.

How Punjab’s civil society prevented an ecological disaster in already polluted Ludhiana

Vivek Gupta 29 Jul 2022

Accelerating rate of groundwater depletion in Punjab, worries farmers and experts

Vivek Gupta 14 Jun 2022
A cultivated wheat field in the Rohtak district of Haryana. Photo by Kapil Kajal.

Heatwave takes a toll on north India’s wheat yield

Kapil Kajal 8 Jun 2022

Forests of faith face encroachments and invasive species in Punjab

Jaskaran Singh and Sahana Ghosh 17 Dec 2021

From pollution to power, what stops paddy straw from becoming the fuel of choice

Manu Moudgil 7 Dec 2021

Mass deaths of birds in Faridkot linked to use of chemicals on fruit trees

Vivek Gupta 5 Aug 2021

Shrimp farming gets a push in Uttar Pradesh as India looks to boost exports in fisheries sector

Sneha Mahale 7 Jun 2021

A forest in a city: Maintaining Chandigarh’s green cover in the face of urbanisation

Kunal Sharma, Swayam Chowdhary 27 May 2021

Chandigarh’s Sukhna wildlife sanctuary remains unprotected as Punjab, Haryana delay on eco sensitive zone

Vivek Gupta 28 Apr 2021

As depolluting Sutlej river delayed, impact on health continues

Vivek Gupta 7 Apr 2021

Gharials bounce back in Punjab but the real test is breeding

Vivek Gupta 7 Dec 2020