If you liked this story, share it with other people. Waste is often seen as a local service issue. It is collected by municipalities, handled by sanitation workers, discussed in ward meetings, and ...

India is positioning itself as a global investment hub for artificial intelligence and data centres, with the latest gigawatt-scale investment in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Environmental concerns ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Dipti Dheeraj Bhandari, a fisherwoman from Mumbai’s Charkop village, has been worried for weeks. In mid-December 2025, the Bombay High Court ...

The Mishmi takin, a rare Himalayan goat-antelope, needs humid montane forests and uninterrupted migration corridors to survive. However, it faces growing threats from climate change, expanding roads, ...

When a thermal power plant in Talcher, Odisha, closed, local markets that once thrived on workers’ daily spending, collapsed, leaving shopkeepers and small vendors struggling to survive. After decades ...

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 ...

Initiated in the early 1970s, the Mandal dam remains unfinished, displacing hundreds of families without full compensation. Despite fresh clearances and reduced reservoir levels, locals say jobs, land ...

Nagaland is the first state in India to insure its entire geography against heavy rainfall. The scheme was revised to include a more accurate threshold based on localised meteorological data, and ...

Submerged Worlds and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Mighty Rivers by Vaishali Shroff brings together well-researched stories of the ecology, mythology, politics, history and culture of India’s ...

Women now form 42% of India’s farm workforce but lack recognition, rights, and decision-making power. Land ownership remains critical without which women’s farm labour and decisions remain invisible, ...

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 ...

Farmers in Burj village, a few hundred meters from the India-Pakistan border, have farmlands straddling both countries and face constant challenges due to the proximity of conflict. The farmers ...