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 ...

A new climate study predicts a 43% rise in the intensity of extreme rainfall events, alongside a 2.5-fold increase in the heat wave days in India. Titled Weathering the Storm, the study by the ...

India’s cities are growing rapidly, but outdated and fragmented data is a big hurdle in tracking risks, identifying gaps, or managing growth effectively. India must look beyond GDP and focus on ...

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

India is now the world’s largest plastic polluter, with a lot of its waste entering marine environments due to a lack of proper management systems. Microplastics are accumulating in crucial marine ...

A new report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) finds that the Asian continent is warming twice as fast as the global average, highlighting the uneven impacts and consequences of global ...

For centuries, plants and animals have been translocated from their native lands and introduced elsewhere by humans — sometimes for ornamentation, sometimes to change the nature of unfamiliar ...

Studies find that tin and cement roofs significantly increase indoor heat stress in rural households, posing serious health risks. Structural solutions such as better ventilation, tiled or insulated ...

Nagaland is the first state in India to insure its entire geography against heavy rainfall. The scheme was revised to include a more accurate threshold based on localised meteorological data, and ...

Dark diversity — species absent from a study site ecologically suitable to it and present in surrounding areas — gives a good estimate of global loss of biodiversity due to human activities, reports ...

On his six-acre farm in Jhansi in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Sanjeev Kumar, a 42-year-old farmer beams with quiet pride as he points to the glinting blue solar panels powering his ...