A new climate study predicts a 43% rise in the intensity of extreme rainfall events, alongside a 2.5-fold increase in the heat wave days in India. Titled Weathering the Storm, the study by the ...

Batagur kachuga turtles have been translocated and released in the Ganga river and tagged with sonic devices to monitor them.

Flowers speak a universal language. They symbolise love, celebration, special moments, and sometimes even grief. That is why fresh flowers are a popular gift or decoration item for occasions. The ...

Most Indians have personally experienced at least one extreme weather event or related impact in 2024, finds a recently published survey, highlighting that the impact of climate change is an everyday ...

Pole-and-line fishing is a traditional fishing method recognised as an important sustainable fishing practice. Unlike destructive fishing practices such as trawling, pole-and-line fishing is ...

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, ...

What’s driving this new wave of children’s green books? Internationally, the genre got a boost from Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement that gave young people a stake in the climate change debate.

On April 29, the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) of India introduced the Biological Diversity (Access to Biological Resources and Knowledge Associated Thereto and Fair and Equitable Sharing of ...

India is stepping up efforts to ensure a steady supply of rare earth elements and magnets—materials that are key to its clean energy push, greening transport, and defence sector—in light of China’s ...

The Indian government could soon limit the cooling range of air conditioners to save on energy, India’s power minister, Manohar Lal Khattar said. In a press meet organised to commemorate 11 years of ...

Protected areas only cover about 5.02 percent of India’s total area. Consequently, a large percentage of India’s wildlife live outside protected boundaries. This gives rise to situations spanning ...

A mithun farmer from Arunachal Pradesh’s Siang district, collaborated with the National Research Centre on Mithun (NRCM) to make churpi from mithun milk, for the first time. The mithun, a ...