West Bengal’s traditional practice of fishing at a khoti is being challenged with dwindling fish stock, mechanised fishing and financial instability. The 2017 National Marine Policy envisions ...

Water flooded a rat-hole mine in the Dima Hasao district of Assam, earlier this month, trapping several miners inside. The abandoned coal mine was illegally operated without safety protocols. Attempts ...

The clouded leopard’s range spans the Himalayas in Nepal, Bhutan, and India, extending across south China and down to Peninsular Malaysia. However, its population is declining rapidly in mainland Asia ...

Carbon farmers reported receiving almost no monetary benefits from carbon projects in Haryana and Madhya Pradesh, according to a new study. Marginalised farmers from Scheduled Caste and Scheduled ...

When 41-year-old Rinchin Jomba’s recipe for momo, a type of steamed dumpling, won the Millet Recipe Contest organised by the agriculture centre Krishi Vigyan Kendra in 2023, her joy transcended the ...

The villages of Loliem and Poingunim in south Goa petitioned the union environment ministry, demanding they be included in the upcoming Eco Sensitive Areas notification. A proposed Film City on a ...

2024 was the hottest year on record, producing intense, long-lasting heat waves. Climate-intensified extreme events in 2024 included heat domes that formed over Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Assam is imperilled by several threats. Railway lines that already fragment the forest and claim the lives of elephants and other wildlife through collisions are now ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. “Disasters do not stop at geographical boundaries. What happens upstream, affects downstream and vice versa. That is why we need regional ...

Taxonomist Jini Jacob received the Ocean Census Awards 2024 for her work documenting over 60 novel nematode species. Nematodes or roundworms make up a majority of the marine meiofauna — minute ...

A Turtle Excluder Device, made in India, receives approval from the U.S. raising hopes that the five-year ban on wild-caught shrimp be lifted soon. Designed to suit Indian conditions and in line with ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Canacona, Goa’s southernmost taluka, a district sub-division, has seen a tourism boom post the nineties, thanks to a congested North Goa. The ...