Women undertake most of the menial labour in traditional paddy cultivation, bearing the brunt of climate change while also unwittingly contributing to emissions. Studies highlight that women paddy ...

A new study found twice as many blackbucks outside Karnataka’s Jayamangali Blackbuck Conservation Reserve, compared to inside. Blackbucks thrive in savannah grasslands but the highest land cover ...

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 ...

Innovators are transforming flower waste into vegan leather, biodegradable packaging material and sustainable fragrances. Energy-efficient techniques are being developed to preserve the economic value ...

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 ...

A research team is drilling boreholes in Mount Everest’s Western Cwm to measure glacier temperatures and understand why Himalayan glaciers are warming and melting faster than expected. Data from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The external wall of Phulabai Pawar’s house features a washing powder advertisement that reads: ‘Keeps your clothes fresh and clean!’ Phulabai is ...

In the late nineteenth century, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) were introduced to the Andaman Islands to work in timber operations that continued until the early 2000s. On occasions working ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Over two decades, between 2000 and 2019, India faced the third most number of natural disaster events in the world. Future prospects are grim – ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. On a sweltering April afternoon, Mahesh S., a 28-year-old dairy farmer from Kempanapalya village in Karnataka, lifts a damp jute bag covering a ...