The world is at a crossroads. Just like in 1990. That year, countries agreed to phase out the use of gases like chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that...

Outbreaks of viral fever occur with seasonal regularity during monsoon in India. For the past few years, dengue and chikungunya viruses have been the...

Changes in rainfall patterns, long spell of warmer temperatures and rise in the humidity level have allowed mosquito vectors to thrive at locations...

Rural electrification in India has suffered not from a lack of effort, but for want of well-planned efforts in the right direction. No wonder a basic...

Residents of Manki village, barely 10 kilometers from “diamond city” Panna in Madhya Pradesh, saw a bulb switch on for the first time in March this...

What coal has done to community forests in Meghalaya, oil palm seems to be doing in Mizoram. Since 2005, the Mizoram government has been implementing...

By taking away forest lands for industries and plantation forestry, instead of preserving natural species that provide livelihood to these people, the...

In 2013, a multi-day cloudburst in Uttarakhand caused devastating floods, killing more than 5,000 people. A year later, Kashmir suffered disastrous...

For more than five months, residents of Jabarra village have been foraging the forests for minor forest produce (MFP). The forest in Chhattisgarh’s...

Baobab trees in eastern Zimbabwe are dying due to a mysterious disease, creating a food security crisis in the drought-stricken country, international...

On July 7, 2016, the Centre announced the commencement of the much-delayed Namami Gange project across all five basin states of the River Ganga....

The State of World’s Children report of 2016 paints a disappointing picture of the state of children’s education in the world saying that the number...