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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

Byrnihat, an industrial town on the Assam-Meghalaya border, has been declared the most polluted metropolitan area in the world by the 2024 IQAir World Air Quality Report. Byrnihat recorded an annual ...

An invasive eucalyptus weevil, Gonipterus platensis has been identified in the Nilgiri Plateau, marking its first verified presence in the region. The initial observation was made via the iNaturalist ...

Among the various restoration efforts in the Western Himalayas, government-run afforestation initiatives led the way in Himachal Pradesh, while Uttarakhand had a lot more collaborative initiatives, ...

Increasing livestock populations in Kashmir’s alpine and sub-alpine areas are restricting the movement and feeding of the Kashmir markhor. This could potentially push the wild goat into suboptimal ...

A new book by Ashok Swain, Professor and Head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, draws links between climate change and conflict. Framing climate change as a ...

Karnataka forest department moots a soft release centre in Bhadra tiger reserve as a humane and sustainable solution to human-elephant conflict in the state. The location has been chosen for its ...