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During sampling the team encountered floating plastic items such as plastic bottles and packets along a 100 km stretch of the Bhagirathi-Hooghly stretch of the Ganga. Photo by Bhadury et al

[Commentary] Worsening water quality in Ganga’s lower stretches and what it means for us

Anwesha Ghosh 9 Nov 2021

The migratory routes of plastic

Devayani Khare 8 Oct 2021

[Photos] In the dark world of white clay

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen 24 Sep 2021

Baghjan oil blowout: Report indicates a long road to recovery and ecological restoration

Roopak Goswami, Sahana Ghosh 5 Jul 2021

India looks likely to miss the 2022 renewable energy targets

Nandini Jhalani 3 Jun 2021
There is an urgent need to develop a more resilient and capable observing system to factor in the accelerating pace of climatic and oceanic change. Photo by Blueocean/Wikimedia Commons.

Improved monitoring proposed in the Indian Ocean as climatic and oceanic changes increase

Sahana Ghosh 7 May 2021

Using fossil fuel as a cash cow: A big obstacle in India’s energy transition

Kundan Pandey 31 Mar 2021
A vendor carrying LPG cylinders

Government survey paints a different picture of Ujjwala scheme claims

Kundan Pandey 22 Jan 2021

Retrofitting coal power plants with carbon capture may lead to increased water stress

Sahana Ghosh 14 Aug 2020

Government pushes for post facto environment clearances while apex court disapproves

Mayank Aggarwal 6 Apr 2020

Pollution watchdog releases guidelines to handle COVID-19 biomedical waste

Mayank Aggarwal 24 Mar 2020

Sonbhadra’s tryst with fake news gets more attention than its reality

Mayank Aggarwal 11 Mar 2020

31st birthday gift: a world with net-zero emissions?

Mayank Aggarwal, Sahana Ghosh 15 Nov 2019

Natural, man-made air pollutants tinkering with Guwahati’s rainwater

Sahana Ghosh 22 Oct 2019

Groundwater in Rajasthan fouled by natural and human-made toxins

Sahana Ghosh 11 Sep 2019

Turning agro-waste into environment-friendly plastics

Sahana Ghosh 30 Jul 2019
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How global geologic processes lace your glass of water with arsenic

Sahana Ghosh 15 Jul 2019
Darjeeling garbage cleaning HMI

Trainee mountaineers take on trash rolled down Darjeeling hills

Sahana Ghosh 23 Jan 2019

Light pollution on the rise in India: Study

Sahana Ghosh 18 Jan 2019

Gangetic river dolphins in the Indian Sundarbans struggle with swelling salinity

Sahana Ghosh 17 Jan 2019