New research from 141 Indian cities reveals that seasonal climate and geography lead to contrasting regional signatures of ...

The social, economic and cultural importance of the khejri tree in the Thar desert has earned it the title of Kalpavriksha or the tree of life. On the sand dunes where little life thrives, the tree ...

Changing hunting practices in Nagaland, driven by fading traditional ethics and cross-border wildlife trade, are putting wildlife at risk. A recent camera trap study in the Noklak and Peren districts ...

On August 5, Dharali, a village in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, was hit by a flash flood in the Himalayan stream Kheer Gad, leaving at least 68 people missing and one dead. Rapid construction over the ...

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 ...

In Assam, misinformation about the Russell’s viper has led to panic and hostility towards the snake, with at least three reported incidents of snake killing, including similar-looking snakes of other ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Tree transplantation is the process of uprooting and relocating a fully grown, mature tree from its original location to a new one. It is often ...

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 ...

An automated ice reservoir is built in Igoo village in Ladakh. Fitted with sensors, valves, a control panel and an automatic weather station, the ice reservoir holds four million litres of water and ...

India’s biodiversity hotspots are being increasingly fragmented by roads, dams, plantations, and urbanisation, which disrupt the complex interdependent relationships among species. This fragmentation ...

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 ...

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 – ...