While renewable energy has made it to manifestos of political parties standing in the Lok Sabha elections, specific concerns by the industry have been left out, despite a concerted appeal…
Himalayan wolf is a distinct species of wolf, which shows unique genetic adaptation to the difficult conditions in the Asian high altitude ecosystems, found a study, reiterating that it needs…
Farmers in three countries, including in India, have turned into citizen scientists, helping generate data on crop varieties that adapt best to potential climatic changes. In a study spanning India,…
Manasi Dighe (name changed) rises before the sun, changes into a sari, plaits her thinning hair, and sets out. At the crack of dawn, her eyes begin searching the road,…
Nanar, a small village in the Rajapur tehsil of the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra shot to fame after the central government in 2015 announced the setting up of a refinery…
Climate change is slowly beginning to affect the most important cog in the economic wheel of India – agriculture. Rain-fed agriculture systems are taking a hard hit with monsoons becoming…
Caught between the two mainstream parties, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress, the farmers of Saurashtra are an angry lot this election season. They are waiting for…
India has been trying to make the ongoing national elections more environment-friendly by cutting down on the amount of single-use plastics. However, the election campaigns have painted most roads with…
Sanjaybhai Machhi, 33, a resident of Bharuch in Gujarat, was a fisherman until a few years ago. He would earn enough from fishing in the Narmada river, to sustain his…
With the monsoon setting in, 69-year-old Rahim Khan is worried. Monsoon rains swell the rivers in Assam and it worries people like Khan and lakhs of others who have been…
