As temperatures rose in June this year, Jaman Singh Saini, a 69-year-old farmer from Badangarh village in Jhunjhunu district of…
When water levels rose in a tributary of the Koshi river during the 2019 monsoon, villagers of Launiya in Nepal’s…
As scorching heat grips large swaths of the Earth, a lot of people are trying to put the extreme temperatures…
In recent years, Odanthurai, a village in Tamil Nadu, gained recognition as a self-reliant model village and has been appreciated…
The Kuno National Park (KNP) has become the centre of attention across the world ever since the world's maiden 'cheetah…
About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s…
Each July, comics fans, professionals and scholars descend on San Diego, California, for Comic-Con International – a celebration of the…
When parts of Delhi were inundated with floodwaters several meters high in early July, several reports said that the river…
In another shocking incident involving caste faultlines in Madhya Pradesh, a Dalit man in the Chhatarpur district of the state…
India’s revised surrogacy law has been praised for outlawing commercial surrogacy, but it has also been criticised for restricting who…
I went to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, in June 2023 to visit an old friend and to better understand…
New research shows that India’s tiger conservation policy has not only helped in preserving and increasing tiger populations, but it…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has expressed unwavering confidence that the I.N.D.I.A. (Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance) will defeat…
The world faces a disaster emergency, yet nowhere is the threat more immediate than in Asia and the Pacific, which…
Women’s football and its players have been marginalised, ostracised, discredited and silenced for decades. More recently however, the momentum, performance…
Sitting near her thatched hut, Achikkannu reaches for a set of dried palmyra (Borassus flabellifer) leaves kept on a fence,…
The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup kicked off on Thursday night, the first football world cup hosted by Australia and…
Women's bodies have been objects of patriarchal control for millennia. Objectifying, ridiculing and demeaning women on account of their bodily…
Fifty years after the launch of Project Tiger in India, the country hosts 75% of the world’s wild tigers, with…
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on the incident of women being paraded naked in Manipur, the Congress said this…
The amendment to the Forest Conservation Act passed through the committee phase last week. It is likely to be tabled…
Close to 2,000 public bicycle-sharing (PBS) systems are operational around the world, providing flexible mobility as users can pick up…
The planet is baking. Southern Europe is sweltering through a record heatwave with temperatures tipped to surpass the European record…
Taking a dig at the BJP-led NDA, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said that the recent meeting of…
When 1000 kilometres of mangrove tidal wetland vegetation, along the shoreline of Australia’s remote Gulf of Carpentaria, died en masse…
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