In Arunachal Pradesh, endangered dholes are attacking mithuns, sacred bovines vital to tribal livelihoods, leading to retaliatory killings. Since the beginning of 2025, more than 50 mithuns have been ...

Your Environment This Week: Dung beetles, City dwelling urban jackals and Frogs in fields ...

The Western Himalayas are home to 53 bat species, accounting for 40% of total bat diversity in India, according to the revised bat inventory.

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 ...

Cotton is one of India’s top agricultural exports and between 2011-12 and 2020-21, the country’s cotton exports consumed roughly 40 trillion litres of water. Top cotton-producing districts in ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Schools in India have seen increasing disruptions due to extreme weather events, over the last few years. Many Indian states witnessed long spells ...

A new graphic novel, ‘Food & Farming’, explores multiple issues in India’s food and agriculture systems and how they affect various stakeholders. In this interview, the authors of the book talk about ...

The Indus river dolphin is found only in the lower Indus river system in Pakistan and India. Since the 1870s, its habitat has shrunk by 80%, with an estimated 2,000 individuals remaining today. In ...

It was like any other day in a rainy season. The people of Vellarimala hill ranges in the Western Ghats of Wayanad district of Kerala had little inkling of what was in store when they went to sleep on ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In April 2024, the members of Bengaluru’s Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) decided to record a woodland near Manyata Tech Park in the city’s ...