In Himachal Pradesh’s Kibber village, a team of local women were a key part of the scientific monitoring effort to estimate the region’s snow leopard population. Forest officials say collaboration ...

A new species of fungi, Bridgeoporus kanadii, was discovered in West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, according to a ...

Submerged Worlds and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Mighty Rivers by Vaishali Shroff brings together well-researched stories of the ecology, mythology, politics, history and culture of India’s ...

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A research team is drilling boreholes in Mount Everest’s Western Cwm to measure glacier temperatures and understand why Himalayan glaciers are warming and melting faster than expected. Data from the ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Schools in India have seen increasing disruptions due to extreme weather events, over the last few years. Many Indian states witnessed long spells ...

Ongoing resistance to develop Great Nicobar Island got impetus with India’s leading political opposition party calling for the project’s clearances to be suspended. Legal proceedings challenging the ...

Popular among residents of hard rock terrains, the traditional practice of water divining is believed to locate groundwater without relying on scientific instruments or techniques. Water diviners are ...

It was like any other day in a rainy season. The people of Vellarimala hill ranges in the Western Ghats of Wayanad district of Kerala had little inkling of what was in store when they went to sleep on ...

Agrivoltaics, or harvesting crops and solar energy from the same plot of land, has been around in India for over a decade, but scalability remains a challenge. In the National Capital Region and ...

Municipal solid waste from India contributed to 10% of waste leakage to the world’s rivers in 2020, according to a new study. In future scenarios where population growth is high, but urbanisation slow ...