Macro-photographer and naturalist Santosh Roy documents 40 families of moths in Vithura taluk, in the Agasthyamalai hill range.

Annamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu will host India's first Centre of Excellence for Hornbill Conservation, dedicated to long-term study and conservation.

Aside from destroying a hydropower project and killing 55 people, the October 2023 glacial lake outburst flood in Sikkim also left significant changes in water depth, quality, and floodplain structure ...

Schools in India have seen increasing disruptions due to extreme weather events, over the last few years. Many Indian states witnessed long spells of heat waves in 2024, and as a result extended ...

Agrivoltaics in India faces scalability challenges despite a decade of trials, but innovations in space management and integrated farming systems offer promising solutions.

Towering landfills are testament to poor waste segregation practices in India that have persisted for decades. But India’s mounting, untreated waste is a problem whose consequences go beyond its ...

In the late nineteenth century, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) were introduced to the Andaman Islands to work in timber operations that continued until the early 2000s. On occasions working ...

State governments and organisations are increasingly experimenting with parametric insurance to cope with losses from natural disasters.

Kashmir, the second-largest saffron-producing region, has seen a 68% drop in saffron output. Indoor farming offers water savings and climate control, but yields remain lower. Farmers are optimistic ...

Assam’s Majuli island is dotted with an elaborate network of wetlands of varying sizes and characteristics, a marker of the island’s geological past. A large number of people have historically ...

Delhi-based NGO Call for Justice, conducted a study on the implementation of Forest Rights Act (FRA) across five states, and found varying gaps in implementation.

The Supreme Court directed India’s environment ministry to revert to an older definition of forests whose protections were more “broad and all-encompassing.” It is unclear whether states followed the ...