One of the world’s major biodiversity hotspots, the Western Ghats of India is becoming increasingly dry. Many studies in the past five-six years have...

Even 40 years after India’s only commission on floods was constituted, the situation has not improved. There is no national-level flood control...

Floods are regular in India. But there is something peculiar about them this year. They not only came early but have stayed longer. And worryingly,...

Ever since India’s first bio-toilet was installed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) at its Defence Institute of High...

Though the sun marks the difference between a habitable world and a barren wasteland, we are only beginning to understand the various dynamics of our...

The Ministry of Environment and Forests’ new Biomedical Waste Management Rules 2016 “will change the way the country used to manage biomedical waste”...

The UK government recently gave permission to Kathy Niakan, a researcher at the Francis Crick Institute, London, to use a controversial gene editing...

Maharashtra is planning to use treated sewage water for cooling steam in its coal-based thermal power stations. The idea will be implemented for the...

Till the 1960s, the Himalayas would witness rain for seven days in a row every July. The Saat Jaad season was a highly revered geographical...