A caracal was photographed in Madhya Pradesh’s Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary on July 1 this year. The sighting has drawn attention to the region’s dryland habitats, where caracals have historically ...

Extreme weather events, exacerbated by climate change, are threatening India’s centuries-old cultural and religious heritage sites.

India's progress in integrating climate education into the mainstream syllabus has been slow, but some educators are working ...

A research team is drilling boreholes in Mount Everest’s Western Cwm to understand why Himalayan glaciers are melting faster than expected.

China’s plans to build a 60,000 megawatt dam on its side of the Brahmaputra has renewed the Indian government’s interest in building its own mega dam, the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in ...

A recent genome study of elephants in India sheds new light on their population, divergence, and history. The study identifies five distinct genetic populations of elephants in the country, with a ...

Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh has a long-established leather industry with two major leather clusters, Jajmau and Unnao, that contribute significantly to the local economy. The legacy leather sector, ...

Pollution, urbanisation, habitat fragmentation and increasing human-animal conflict, may be leading to physiological stress in mugger crocodiles. A new study monitored the physiological responses of ...

Towering landfills are testament to poor waste segregation practices in India that have persisted for decades. But India’s mounting, untreated waste is a problem whose consequences go beyond its ...

A unique automated ice reservoir in Ladakh’s Igoo village stores four million litres of water, uses sensors and weather data, and boasts 80% efficiency in ice formation.

In the late nineteenth century, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) were introduced to the Andaman Islands to work in timber operations that continued until the early 2000s. On occasions working ...