Featured photo: Seratobikiba/Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Tribal communities in the Araku Valley of Andhra Pradesh “signed away” their rights to carbon credits through a local NGO intermediary ...

Sea ice around the Antarctic has shrunk and is responding to the atmosphere differently. The challenge is to work out why. Throughout 2023, the area of ocean around Antarctica covered by sea ice was ...

Algeria’s Tassili N’Ajjer plateau is Africa’s largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world’s largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited ...

In October 2022, India’s Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with other ministries and departments, announced that it would host a four-day conference called “Akash For Life” at a ...

Building codes are not new to India, and the first iteration of the National Building Code (NBC) dates back to 1970. While the NBC had general building guidelines in place, there were none pertaining ...

A North Atlantic right whale calf was found dead on the beach. Photo: FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Hundreds of dead whales have washed up on the Atlantic coast of ...

The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is warming at almost double the global average rate: 0.32°C per decade versus 0.16°C. Photo: Tang Zhaoming/Alamy A recent study on the state of a glacier on the ...

The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility. Photo: Damien Jemison/LLNL CC BY SA 3.0 But in truth, generating electrical power from fusion commercially or at an industrial scale is likely ...

Thermal power plants have resisted implementing new emissions standards by repeatedly seeking extensions to the compliance deadline – and the environment ministry has allowed these extensions. Data ...

Quantum entanglement is still a subject of physics research but also a component of commercial technologies and plays a starring role in the quantum information processing industry. The 2022 Nobel ...

Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire. The work of the three individuals who have won the Nobel Prize for physics this year won’t just make you go “wow”. They might just leave you ...

In three recent cases, the Madras and the Uttarakhand high courts invoked parens patriae to confer rights on natural elements like rivers and glaciers. Parens patriae conceives of nature as a ...