Farmers and other citizens across Kerala are buying the traditional Onam feast from restaurants instead of preparing at home, after massive crop losses this year. Production of agricultural items ...

Glacier velocity in the Zanskar Himalayas dropped 16% between 1992 and 2023, with the slowdown accompanied by accelerated ice thinning. Glaciers at lower elevations lost speed faster than those higher ...

Ambikapur, a city in Chhattisgarh, created its own decentralised waste management plan that not only minimises waste that reaches a landfill site, but also generates revenue for the local municipal ...

Over the past 12 years, the residents of Badakot have converted degraded land into a 25-acre mangrove forest that protects their village from eroding away. Bijay Kumar Kabi led the community to ...

Farmers in Andhra Pradesh shifted from monocropping to crop diversification, with micro-irrigation reducing water use. Despite this, cash crops dominate due to market pressures and flawed government ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Over two decades, between 2000 and 2019, India faced the third most number of natural disaster events in the world. Future prospects are grim – ...

As the controversial Vadhavan port project in Maharashtra awaits the union cabinet nod, fishing communities and marine researchers say that the project would have impacts on the biodiversity and ...

The activism around Kerala’s Silent Valley was a grassroots movement to protect the pristine forests from being submerged by a proposed hydroelectric dam, highlighting the conflict between ...

Since mines were shut in Kolar Gold Fields in 2001, the town has received neither electricity nor water regularly. There are barely any toilets and people can be seen defecating in the open. Hillocks ...

The Gujarat Solar Park, India’s first utility-scale solar park, sets an example of how renewable energy development, if not done right, can lead to more environmental harm than good. 10 years after ...

Initiated in the early 1970s, the Mandal dam remains unfinished, displacing hundreds of families without full compensation. Despite fresh clearances and reduced reservoir levels, locals say jobs, land ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In April 2024, the members of Bengaluru’s Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) decided to record a woodland near Manyata Tech Park in the city’s ...