Batagur kachuga turtles have been translocated and released in the Ganga river and tagged with sonic devices to monitor them.

The Indigenous Sherpa communities living in Nepal’s Himalayas find themselves at the forefront of climate change, say the authors of a recent book about the legendary mountaineers. Mountaineering has ...

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

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 ...

Biodiversity has been defined as one of nine planetary boundaries that help regulate the planet’s operating system. But humanity is crossing those boundaries, threatening life on Earth. The planetary ...

According to a new research paper, there are associated health benefits to adding more nature in cities, but where you add it matters. More green spaces in densely populated areas save the most human ...

The passage of the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act will have huge implications for the northeast of India where large expanses of forests are not notified as forests in any Act. The northeastern ...

The poor condition of lakes in Bengaluru and subsequent revival efforts have been under scrutiny and public discourse for several years now. Jakkur Lake in north Bengaluru has received many accolades ...

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 ...

Cricket has deep roots in Kashmir. The region’s rich history of bat manufacturing, dating back to the 19th century, contributes significantly to the local economy and culture. The Kashmiri cricket bat ...

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 ...

In a bid to make India’s financial system resilient to climate-related risks, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is mulling over possible regulations. As a start, the central bank has come up with a ...