Heat Plans Must Account For Age And Gender, Says UN Women Paper
A new report highlights the age and gender-differentiated impacts of heat stress. The paper calls for a greater understanding of...
Earth And Ecology
Tree Plantation Sparks Debate Over Urban Greening & Miyawaki Method
Bengaluru’s record-breaking plantation drive has renewed debate over whether mass tree planting is the most effective way to restore urban...
Tribal Council Disputes Recognition Of Forest Rights On Nicobar Island
In a letter to the Union Tribal Affairs Minister, tribal chiefs of Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar have demanded withdrawal...
How Climate Crisis Is Redefining Home & Who Counts As A Refugee
* India offers one of the starkest illustrations of climate displacement. Islands in the Sundarbans, including the once-inhabited Lohachara, have...
The Hidden Burden Of Air Pollution In Rural Areas Of Bihar
Villages in Bhojpur, Bihar, face severe air pollution aggravated by the weather conditions in winter. A study highlights that rural...
‘Wildlife Board Cleared Projects Without Due Ecological Scrutiny’
A Delhi High Court petition alleges the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) Standing Committee approved 97% of 2,186 project proposals...
Proposed Reservoir In TN Sparks Debate Over Wetland, Livelihoods
Tamil Nadu is converting a coastal wetland in Chennai into a reservoir. Called Mamallan reservoir, it will be the city’s...
The Insect That Syncs Up With The Football World Cup
A cicada that emerges every four years in Meghalaya was also recorded in Assam this year. Mass emergence of cicadas,...
India’s Monsoon Deluge Reflects Intensifying Climate Emergency
From floods to heatwaves, cascading climate disasters expose mounting vulnerabilities demanding coordinated scientific and policy responses In the first week...
Kerala Landslide Raises Fresh Ques Over Mountain Development
Eight workers died in a landslide at the under-construction tunnel project in Wayanad, which triggered investigations into possible lapses in...
E20 Debate Reveals India’s Uneven Energy Transition Trade-Offs
The controversy surrounding India’s E20 fuel programme has exposed a deeper tension than a disagreement over automotive technology. Recent proceedings...
Why Looking At Trees Is A Type Of Rebellion [Book Review]
The book The Trees of My Country celebrates India’s trees not for their usefulness to humans, but simply for their...
Ladakh’s Apricot Lifeline Is Being Challenged By A Changing Climate
Nusrat Rehman can’t wait to be home from school. It’s summertime in the otherwise cold and arid Kargil in Ladakh,...
More Number Of Trees Don’t Always Mean Cooler Cities, Study Finds
A new study finds that simply increasing tree cover does not always make cities cooler. In humid urban areas, dense...
India Must Learn From Others Before Expanding Carbon Markets
India is preparing to expand its carbon market beyond industries and into farms, forests, grasslands, wetlands, mangroves and other natural...
Delhi’s Waste-to-Energy Push Fuels Pollution Fears
Communities that live near waste-to-energy (WTE) plants in India complain about the stench and soot. But construction has begun for...
How Greener Steel Relies On Ship Recycling, However…
* Old ships contain mountains of scrap needed for lower-carbon steelmaking. But the course from ship to furnace is made...
Is Delhi’s Central Ridge Restoration Doing More Harm Than Good?
Ongoing activities in Delhi’s Central Ridge, undertaken in the name of restoration, may ultimately hinder ecological recovery. Biodiverse native understory...
Banks Are Sitting On A Heat Risk They Have Barely Begun To Price
Extreme heat is disrupting loan repayments across India’s banking and microfinance sector, squeezing lenders’ cash flows and raising operating costs....
Delhi University’s Carbon Garden: Reimagining Urban Greenery
A carbon garden in a university campus in Delhi uses a mix of plants, algae, fungi and microorganisms to sequester...
Forest Clearance For Dam Puts Endangered Bird Species At Risk
The forest advisory committee has granted in-principle approval for a 1200- megawatt hydropower project in Arunachal Pradesh. The region is...
Rising Temps And Human Activity Both Drive Himalayan Forest Fires
A new study conducted in the Western Himalayas found temperature to be the strongest driver associated with forest fires, among...
Some Reasons Why India’s Food Diversity Matters More Than Ever
The story begins with a mango tree in a family courtyard in Kerala. It was not just a tree but...
Does Climate Change Lead To More Migration? There’s No Consensus
Images of families displaced by floods, prolonged droughts or extreme storms have become a distressingly regular feature of the daily...
‘Being Out In Nature Is A Small But Significant Act Of Resistance’
Summer is the season of amaltas in Delhi. The yellow-flowering trees, also known as Indian laburnum, burst into bloom as...
