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

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 ...

Green jobs are evolving beyond technical roles and fieldwork; people with skills or experience in fields such as engineering, finance, architecture, communications, law and others can find positions ...

A research team is drilling boreholes in Mount Everest’s Western Cwm to measure glacier temperatures and understand why Himalayan glaciers are warming and melting faster than expected. Data from the ...

Dam for a dam On December 25, 2024, Xinhua, the official state news agency of China said the Chinese government had approved plans to build a 60,000 megawatt dam in Medog county, which, when built, ...

Muthalapozhy fishing harbour near the Vizhinjam International Seaport in Kerala has garnered attention for the repeated accidents and death of fishers at the harbour. Sand accumulation under the water ...

It is just a few weeks since the devastating landslide of Wayanad of July 30 and the news is already disappearing from media platforms. It is in the nature of news cycles that new developments replace ...

Like the famous novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by the Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, the slim and punchy little book, The Great Nicobar Betrayal, augurs a coming ...

A new study capturing how coal mining transforms land use over time demonstrates the challenges in restoring this land upon mine closure – an important aspect of a just transition as India plans to ...

Community members monitoring ecology in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve integrate traditional knowledge with modern scientific methods to monitor climate impacts on their forests, rivers, and farms.

On July 30, 2024, a massive landslide struck the Vellarimala hill ranges in Wayanad district, Kerala, causing fatalities and widespread destruction. Heavy rainfall triggered the landslide.

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 ...