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

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 ...

Vaishali Shroff’s Submerged Worlds and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Mighty Rivers is a deeply moving exploration of India’s rivers. Well-researched and readable stories take you through their ...

Flowers speak a universal language. They symbolise love, celebration, special moments, and sometimes even grief. That is why fresh flowers are a popular gift or decoration item for occasions. The ...

A lot of the credit for providing the baseline data on the distribution of birds in India goes to the British ornithologists and naturalists such as A.O. Hume, T.C. Jerdon, Edward Blyth, Brian Hodgson ...

Pole-and-line fishing is a traditional fishing method recognised as an important sustainable fishing practice. Unlike destructive fishing practices such as trawling, pole-and-line fishing is ...

Environmental reporting in Indian languages is improving climate change reportage in the country. By communicating the message to different communities in their own language, journalists are creating ...

There is a growing interest for children’s literature on the environment and climate, that aims to tackle complex subjects while infusing them with hope and humour. While the genre is not new in India ...

A mithun farmer from Arunachal Pradesh’s Siang district, collaborated with the National Research Centre on Mithun (NRCM) to make churpi from mithun milk, for the first time. The mithun, a ...

India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change notified a new set of regulations on how the benefits arising from the access and use of biological resources should be shared, altering ...

A century ago, when terms like “climate goals” and “net zero” were unheard of, the railway tracks of Bombay (now Mumbai), witnessed a technological turning point and a precursor to today’s clean ...

Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli, widely revered as Aranya Rishi (sage of the forest), died at his home in Solapur on the evening of June 18, 2025. He was 93. Born on November 5, 1932, in Solapur, ...