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 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 ...

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 ...