Residents of the ancient pilgrim town of Joshimath were forced to flee their homes in the freezing weather of January…
(Source: PTI) African elephant numbers have dropped from about 26 million in the 1800s to 415,000 today. While this is…
Rivers are the lifeblood for millions of Indians and Bangladeshis. But a radical legal idea to save them from pollution…
Climate change is destabilising the freshwater supply on which all life depends. Multiple disasters in 2022 drove home the point…
Asian countries are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In 2022, the damage across the region from catastrophes…
Communities are being pushed into a reckoning onset by climate change — adapt their way of living to mitigate flood…
Vaping for a day and tossing it away is all the rage. Electronic cigarette sales have boomed in recent years,…
Greater conservation efforts are needed to protect Antarctic ecosystems, and the populations of up to 97 per cent of land-based…
From the foothills of the Himalayas to the islands of the Jamuna River, cultural traditions are being impacted by climate…
When life inside a rainforest is so enchanting, what would life on its roof be like? Where the crown of…
Legislation passed earlier this year fundamentally restructures how India’s forests are governed, legal experts and activists have told The Third…
In the Arctic, the freedom to travel, hunt and make day-to-day decisions is profoundly tied to cold and frozen conditions…
(Source: PTI) As countries iron out a deal to protect nature at the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal, Canada, a…
The massive carbon footprint left behind by emails has been widely discussed by the media, but most of the time…
There was significant progress on finance for climate adaptation at COP27 last month. Governments agreed to move forward on the…
(Source: PTI) Climate change is knocking on our doors and people in poorer nations are going to pay a "heavier…
Located in the low-lying islands in the Bay of Bengal, the Sundarbans straddle the border between India and Bangladesh and…
As glaciers shrink and monsoon rainfall becomes more unpredictable due to climate change, uncertainty around the viability of hydropower projects…
“Policymakers and planners think that open lands hardly contribute anything and can be used for some development pathway,” said Vivek…
When diatom hunter Karthick Balasubramanian was invited to a research expedition on the Blue Mountains of Mizoram, little did he…
Off the tourist trail and away from the resorts that crowd Munnar’s lush hills in the Western Ghats is a…
In July 1970, devastating floods swept through the Alaknanda Valley, in northern India. Sudden, intense rainfall had caused a violent…
In an ironic comment on the COP27 process in Egypt, one of this year’s most significant climate initiatives was not…
There’s a piece of gardening lore in my hometown which has been passed down for generations: never plant your tomatoes…
Oyunchimeg Dechinlhundev lives in the outskirts of Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar. She makes a living from raising chickens and geese, and…
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