Ten state pollution control boards across the Indo-Gangetic Plain, which faces severe air pollution, have a surplus of funds each…
Environmentalists rightly urge us to consider the long-term effects of our actions. Plastic bags, they point out, can take hundreds…
Walking on the shores of Elliot’s beach in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, with an 18-member-group of children is naturalist, educator and…
In his hugely ambitious new book The Earth Transformed: An Untold History, historian Peter Frankopan tries to tell the story…
Calling for strategies to tackle residual emissions, scientists said they would need to be balanced by carbon dioxide removal techniques…
Source: PTI Tucked away in a quiet stretch of the Konkan coast is a little known nesting site for Olive…
Source: PTI A review of 37 heat action plans in India shows most of them do not explicitly carry out…
For many Muslims breaking fast in mosques around the world this Ramadan, something will be missing: plastics. The communal experience…
Source: PTI Voluntary organisations fighting for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy have expressed displeasure over the Supreme…
Researchers have tried for decades to find a relevant legal status for people forced to flee their homes as a…
Salim Patel is a 43-year old cotton farmer based in Tralsa, a village in Vagra taluka of Gujarat’s Bharuch district.…
In the vast saffron-growing land of Pampore, a national highway (NH44) cuts through the middle. Ishfaq Ahmad, a saffron grower,…
Four oil and gas pipelines being laid through protected forests in Assam could be “disastrous” for wildlife, environmentalists have told…
Food loss and waste are major problems around the world. When food is tossed aside or allowed to spoil, it…
Governments around the world are introducing single-use plastic product bans to alleviate pollution. Zimbabwe banned plastic packaging and bottles as…
(Source: PTI) Joshimath is a town on the edge. It’s the very precipice for thousands of people, despairing as the…
It has become clear that meaningful progress on climate change is not going to be achieved by one person or…
Reflected in key goals and targets, ecological connectivity will be decisive, as countries move to implement the freshly minted Kunming-Montreal…
Infrastructure development continued on a grand scale and at a rapid pace in South Asia and the Himalayas in 2022,…
Vaping for a day and tossing it away is all the rage. Electronic cigarette sales have boomed in recent years,…
More than one-third of all people in the world live in cities, towns and villages on coasts. They rely on…
(Source: PTI) Climate change is knocking on our doors and people in poorer nations are going to pay a "heavier…
As fragmentation of forests, commercial plantations and uncertain weather conditions threaten the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve on the Western Ghats highlands…
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…
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