When rooftop solar subsidies were introduced across several Indian states, adoption did not rise gradually with awareness ...

Rainfall is increasingly erratic in the Barak Valley of Assam, disrupting agriculture. Supporting institutions are understaffed and under-resourced, causing a gap between climate science and farming ...

Humid heat is rising fast along India’s coasts, pushing human tolerance limits, a new study shows. Fishers say their workdays are shrinking, as heat turns labour into endurance. Warming seas are ...

Frequent power outages in Meghalaya’s hills, driven by extreme weather, terrain, and a fragile hydropower system, have long disrupted healthcare services. Soon after COVID-19, solar-powered ...

On August 5, Dharali, a village in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, was hit by a flash flood in the Himalayan stream Kheer Gad, leaving at least 68 people missing and one dead. Rapid construction over the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farmers in Andhra Pradesh shifted from monocropping to crop diversification, with micro-irrigation reducing water use. Despite this, cash crops dominate due to market pressures and flawed government ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. India, the world’s largest user of groundwater, consumes 87% of it for irrigation and 11% for domestic use. However, this vital resource is ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. An investigation by a state government body alleges key documents were forged to secure clearances for mining in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand forest ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), an organisation dedicated to developing technologies for exploring and harnessing ocean ...

Urban expansion and land use changes in the Himalayas and the Western Ghats, are driving significant forest loss. A recent study by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) found a massive ...