At Rushikulya beach in Odisha, warming sands are producing more female hatchlings. Scientists warn that this may threaten long-term genetic health and mating success. Over half the current global sea ...

Continuous rainfall, stormwater runoff, wastewater treatment plants and littering zones transport microplastics to urban ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. For Banyllashisha Wankhar, caves are not just geological wonders, they are landscapes of culture, memory, and personal discovery. “I belong to a ...

The Ganga river is experiencing its most severe drought ever recorded, with the steepest decline in streamflow in over 1,300 ...

A new study shows that groundwater, not glaciers, is the lifeline of the Ganga river. Groundwater discharge increases the Ganga river’s volume by about 120% in the Gangetic Plains compared to its ...

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 ...

While India has incorporated environmental learning formally in the educational system, progress in integrating climate education into the mainstream syllabus has been slow. Academicians and climate ...

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 ...

Ongoing resistance to develop Great Nicobar Island got impetus with India’s leading political opposition party calling for the project’s clearances to be suspended. Legal proceedings challenging the ...