Researchers have documented India’s first evidence of a plastic-rock formation called ‘plastistone’, from Maharashtra’s ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. India is already brushing up against record electricity demand weeks before the peak of summer, with consumption nearing a record 256 gigawatts in ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. “A construction worker in Ahmedabad who labours through 45-degree heat loses income, risks injury, returns to a poorly ventilated home that doesn’t ...

Tal Chhapar Wildlife Sanctuary in Rajasthan was once a degraded grassland with its blackbuck population having to be fed food and water by the forest department. Restoration efforts in the grasslands, ...

Once hunted and butchered for oil and meat, the whale shark is now being rescued by the fishers in the Arabian sea coast. The conservation movement that started in Gujarat has now reached the ...

A recent study finds evidence of microplastics in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhoj wetland, a Ramsar site that provides drinking water to about 40% of Bhopal’s residents. The study attributed the microplastic ...

Punjab is facing its worst floods since 1988. Around 1,900 villages are submerged with loss of lives and damage to farms, houses and infrastructure. Rescue operations are in progress and volunteers ...

On August 5, Dharali, a village in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, was hit by a flash flood in the Himalayan stream Kheer Gad, leaving at least 68 people missing and one dead. Rapid construction over the ...

Cotton is one of India’s top agricultural exports and between 2011-12 and 2020-21, the country’s cotton exports consumed roughly 40 trillion litres of water. Top cotton-producing districts in ...

China’s plans to build a 60,000 megawatt dam on its side of the Brahmaputra has renewed the Indian government’s interest in building its own mega dam, the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in ...

The fragile ecosystem of the Western Ghats is threatened by deforestation, quarrying, and largely unplanned development. The escalating pressures of climate change expose this unique natural heritage ...