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 new study reveals that rising nest temperatures are skewing the sex ratio of gharial hatchlings, tipping the balance more toward females. With fewer males to sustain future breeding, the already ...

A snow leopard population and distribution assessment has found almost 500 of the elusive big cats in trans-Himalayan Ladakh, making up 68% of India’s snow leopard population. The findings show that ...

The activism around Kerala’s Silent Valley was a grassroots movement to protect the pristine forests from being submerged by a proposed hydroelectric dam, highlighting the conflict between ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Schools in India have seen increasing disruptions due to extreme weather events, over the last few years. Many Indian states witnessed long spells ...

Ongoing resistance to develop Great Nicobar Island got impetus with India’s leading political opposition party calling for the project’s clearances to be suspended. Legal proceedings challenging the ...

It was like any other day in a rainy season. The people of Vellarimala hill ranges in the Western Ghats of Wayanad district of Kerala had little inkling of what was in store when they went to sleep on ...

Rapid urbanisation, population growth, and unplanned development have led to land use and land cover changes in Ladakh, adding stress on groundwater resources in the region, says a new study.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Over two decades, between 2000 and 2019, India faced the third most number of natural disaster events in the world. Future prospects are grim – ...

Studies find that a warming planet will change the nature of insect-crop interactions, making some regions more conducive for pest attacks, thereby impeding agricultural productivity and diminishing ...

Marine heat waves are events where ocean temperatures rise to extreme levels and hold steady for at least five days. These heat waves, that occur over the ocean, are likely to extend to 220-250 days a ...