Measures to curb plastic pollution rely energy intensive technologies that have fallen short of reducing pollution ...

A recent study reports the presence of microplastics in the scats of jungle cat and fishing cat in the Indian Sundarbans. Microplastics were detected in higher concentration in the jungle cats’ scat; ...

With broken links and a loosened food web, the Veli-Akkulam estuary now has few top predators. Invasive fish are pushing out native species and reshaping the ecosystem into a simpler, more fragile one ...

When rooftop solar subsidies were introduced across several Indian states, adoption did not rise gradually with awareness ...

In Jaigaon, West Bengal, poor waste disposal and the lack of waste management is becoming a critical environmental issue.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new definition for India’s oldest mountain range has thrown its future into flux. On November 20, the Supreme Court approved of a definition for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...