If you liked this story, share it with other people. For many countries, including India, increasing tree cover has become a core part of climate mitigation plans to improve biodiversity and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. “A construction worker in Ahmedabad who labours through 45-degree heat loses income, risks injury, returns to a poorly ventilated home that doesn’t ...

Humid heat is rising fast along India’s coasts, pushing human tolerance limits, a new study shows. Fishers say their workdays are shrinking, as heat turns labour into endurance. Warming seas are ...

Researchers extracted tree cores from old deodar trees in Lahaul, Himachal Pradesh, to reconstruct 396 years of rainfall history of the spring season. They found that the spring of 2022 was the driest ...

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 ...

Initiated in the early 1970s, the Mandal dam remains unfinished, displacing hundreds of families without full compensation. Despite fresh clearances and reduced reservoir levels, locals say jobs, land ...

While India has incorporated environmental learning formally in the educational system, progress in integrating climate education into the mainstream syllabus has been slow. Academicians and climate ...

A new study highlights that while trees outside forests provide wide-ranging benefits, their long-term impacts on human well-being are poorly understood. Along with being a source for commodities such ...

Farmers in Burj village, a few hundred meters from the India-Pakistan border, have farmlands straddling both countries and face constant challenges due to the proximity of conflict. The farmers ...

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 ...

In Odisha’s Kendrapara district, efforts to conserve the Bhitarkanika mangrove ecosystem have led to the demolition of illegal shrimp enclosures, highlighting a growing tension between shrimp farming ...

Chandrapur district in Maharashtra is at the epicenter of human-tiger conflicts, with fatalities from tiger attacks on the rise. A combination of factors, including climate change impacts, plays a ...