South India’s tea sector is struggling with declining prices, rising production costs, and climate-related yield drops, leaving tea growers in the lurch. As a buffer against the volatile tea market, ...

In recent times, the makhana, often promoted as a superfood high in protein, has seen a significant surge in popularity. Although the nuts are now gaining popularity globally, in India, this superfood ...

China’s plans to build a 60,000 megawatt dam on its side of the Brahmaputra has renewed the Indian government’s interest in building its own mega dam, the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in ...

The International Maritime Organization has approved a framework requiring ships to pay for carbon emissions, starting 2028. The framework sets emission reduction targets benchmarked against 2008 ...

Tiny fabric scraps, escape waste management systems and often end up in landfills, where they take decades to decompose and release harmful greenhouse gases. Indian fashion designers are now gathering ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Rising global temperatures could result in more frequent and intense heat waves which in turn could adversely affect humans and animals due to ...

In coffee agroforests that use a diversity of native tree species for shade, seeds that are normally cleared by farmers can be collected instead, new research proposes. The numbers of restoration and ...

Rajasthan is one of India’s top users of groundwater for irrigation, mainly because of water-intensive crops like wheat, even though there have been efforts to switch to drought-resistant ones. Higher ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Indian cities face rising heat risks due to rapid urbanisation, loss of green cover, and unplanned development. Urban heat disproportionately ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. On March 30, the Kerala Urban Policy Commission submitted the state’s first-ever comprehensive urban policy, focusing on urban planning, climate ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. B.T. Venkatesh, a senior advocate and executive at the Association for Protection of Civil Rights, who is representing the fishers in court, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Indian grey wolves play a crucial role as apex predators in India’s ecosystems, yet their survival is increasingly at risk due to habitat loss and ...