When heatwaves disrupt our children’s education, it is time to demand climate action. I am writing this as a climate…
Every day, Bidya* spends three to four hours getting water from the thulo dhara, or big spring, three kilometres from…
Source: PTI As India became the world’s most populous country, experts said women should not be blamed for the country’s…
Source: PTI The Supreme Court on Thursday said it may be redefining the evolving notion of marriage as the next…
Source: PTI The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has suspended the environmental clearance (EC) given to Jindal Steel Works’ or JSW Utkal’s (its…
Content warning: This article discusses sensitive topics such as suicide that some readers may find distressing. Early one Sunday morning,…
Source: PTI Heatwaves in India are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change, with over 90 percent of…
Source: PTI Population anxieties have seeped into many Indians, with about 63 per cent of those surveyed identifying various economic…
More than 7% of all mountain forests have been destroyed during the past two decades, according to a new study published…
Tone Mickrow, a member of the indigenous Idu Mishmi community, lives a few hours’ drive from Etalin – the proposed…
Source: PTI On the receding shorelines of low-lying Vypin Island off Kerala's coast, T. P. Murukesan fixed his eyes on…
The very notion of a man and a woman is not an absolute based on genitals, the Supreme Court said…
One of the world’s largest work guarantee programmes, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme (MGNREGS), also offers climate co-benefits.…
In a study of 19th-century ideas of poverty, the German historian Beate Althammer observes a strange dichotomy. On the one…
Source: PTI NGO Association for Democratic Reforms has moved the Supreme Court against Arun Goel’s appointment as Election Commissioner claiming…
The three assailants who killed gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf posed as journalists, carrying video cameras, mike and…
Source: PTI Ahead of his appearance before the CBI, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday alleged that the BJP…
Source: PTI A top political leader of the Central Tibetan Administration in India said the Tibetan people were hurt by…
Source: PTI The amount of litigation in India is unimaginable and it will take a long time to complete the…
When the earthquake and resulting tsunami hit Fukushima, Japan in 2011, it killed thousands and caused severe damage to a…
Heating of space and water in buildings accounts for about 44% of all energy consumed globally, according to the International…
The Congress accused the BJP-led Centre on Friday of attacking and weakening the Constitution and paying only lip service to…
In India’s forests, grasslands and shrublands, one may, with some luck, come across tigers, leopards, elephants, various deer species and…
(Source: AP) Climate change is making droughts faster and more furious, especially a specific fast-developing heat-driven kind that catch farmers…
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