Climate adaptation is highly understudied in India, with the term often being mentioned without capturing details or impacts. A review of hundreds of papers on adaptation, published from 2017-2023, ...

Cotton is one of India’s top agricultural exports and between 2011-12 and 2020-21, the country’s cotton exports consumed roughly 40 trillion litres of water. Top cotton-producing districts in ...

The global emergency, disaster, and recovery management sector employs over 2.2 million people, with approximately 97,800 new positions added in the last year alone. India is emerging with ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. “Mangoes grew in abundance then. We had plenty for neighbours, relatives, ourselves, and still enough for selling locally,” he recalls a time over ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. According to a report by the non-profit organisation Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group, India’s VCM market has seen phenomenal growth in ...

India’s coastline length has been revised from 7,516.60 kilometres to 11,084.50 kilometres. The increase is mainly due to a change in calculation methodology and scale. The revised coastline could ...

The National Mission on Natural Farming aims to eliminate the ill effects of chemical farming and promote sustainable farming. However, lack of market and sufficient prices are emerging as some of the ...

The Shillong Plateau in Meghalaya, acts as a barrier to the humid air masses of the summer monsoon from the Bay of Bengal, and forces the wind to ascend on its southern windward side causing high ...

India’s first open-access native plant germination database, developed by ERA-India, shares methods for growing over 465 native species. Resilient and better adapted to local conditions, native plants ...

The urban heat island effect is intensifying in suburban Bengaluru, amidst rapid unplanned growth. A modest return to greener cityscapes could counteract some of the warming driven by dense, ...

Protected areas only cover about 5.02 percent of India’s total area. Consequently, a large percentage of India’s wildlife live outside protected boundaries. This gives rise to situations spanning ...