From imposing restrictions on water usage to cutting down water supply, parts of Bengaluru are grappling with the challenge of managing their dwindling water resources. Inadequate rainfall in 2023 led…
India’s focus on critical minerals for its clean energy transition has come in conflict with the rights of forest dwellers in Odisha, highlighting policy gaps in forest land acquisition and…
The Indian star tortoise is rampantly smuggled to serve the illegal pet and animal parts trade. It is endemic to the Indian subcontinent and inhabits two disjoined arid regions –…
Situated atop a hill, 50 km from the district headquarters of Dindori in Madhya Pradesh, is the village of Patangarh. During a visit here, earlier this year, the village resonated…
In an episode of Richie Mehta’s recent web series Poacher, the protagonist Mala Jogi, a forest officer, is accompanied by her colleague Vijay Babu, and an ivory poacher’s relative Yadu,…
The Western Indian Himalayan Region is more prone to risks from climate change compared to the Eastern Himalayan ranges, a new climate risk index, designed by researchers from the Indian…
In the expansive compound surrounding Sundi Bai Uike's hut made from a mixture of clay and cow dung, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, a row of 10…
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The installation of solar water pumps has transformed the lives of the Buddhist nuns at the Pangmo Monastery in Himachal Pradesh, enabling them to maintain their daily prayer routine, especially…
A landscape approach to forest restoration necessitates an integrated perspective that requires understanding the interdependent relationship between people and nature and ways that human activities both depend on and impact…
The 1960s were the years of severe food grain shortage in India. The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, inquired if technical solutions were available anywhere in the world to increase…
On November 26, 2023, Nashik district in Maharashtra faced severe unseasonal rain and hailstorm. The onslaught was so intense that a white blanket of hail covered fields, causing damage to…
A decade ago, scientist Gururaja K.V., who has discovered 23 species of frog from the Western Ghats, and his team unearthed a frog species in the ancient swamp forest of…
With the rapid extinction of biodiversity, our flora and fauna, are there too many books presenting a doomsday scenario? I don’t think so. The situation is so dire that there…
Kerala’s northern district Wayanad is in the news once again for another spate of human-animal conflict incidents. Three men have died over 17 days in conflicts with wild elephants in…
Sandy shores, sand dunes, mangroves, mudflats, cliffs, seagrass meadows, salt marshes – these scenic features often make news as they face frequent threats. Marine litter, extreme weather and building activities…
There’s an important number in the world of climate change jargon that scientists and politicians have warned not to cross. Foreboding headlines say we are getting closer and closer to…
“The earth has a fever,” scientists say rather poetically. This means that it is beginning to cross the thresholds of 1.5 and 2 degree Celsius (°C) temperature rise compared to…
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In 1819, the British collector of Coimbatore, John Sullivan, was attracted by the Nilgiris mountains that he saw in his jurisdiction. Sullivan even built a home for his family, in…