Plastics may be affordable and convenient but their production burdens people living near the refineries. Fossil fuel extraction and the manufacture of polymers, the source of plastics, are associated ...

New research from 141 Indian cities reveals that seasonal climate and geography lead to contrasting regional signatures of ...

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 ...

The activism around Kerala’s Silent Valley was a grassroots movement to protect the pristine forests from being submerged by a proposed hydroelectric dam, highlighting the conflict between ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. An investigation by a state government body alleges key documents were forged to secure clearances for mining in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand forest ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Schools in India have seen increasing disruptions due to extreme weather events, over the last few years. Many Indian states witnessed long spells ...

A new graphic novel, ‘Food & Farming’, explores multiple issues in India’s food and agriculture systems and how they affect various stakeholders. In this interview, the authors of the book talk about ...

In Assam, misinformation about the Russell’s viper has led to panic and hostility towards the snake, with at least three reported incidents of snake killing, including similar-looking snakes of other ...

Agrivoltaics, or harvesting crops and solar energy from the same plot of land, has been around in India for over a decade, but scalability remains a challenge. In the National Capital Region and ...

Lakshmi Swaminathan’s book, ‘A Call to Return: A Journey with Didi Contractor’, chronicles her time learning from the architect Didi Contractor, known for her ecologically-sensitive architecture.