Researchers have documented India’s first evidence of a plastic-rock formation called ‘plastistone’, from Maharashtra’s ...

India imports 60% of its LPG, most of which comes from imports come via the Strait of Hormuz. The closure of the Strait during the recent West Asia conflict caused a shortage of LPG and people turned ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In the winter between November 2025 and February 2026, Gangtok faced a crisis it could not ignore. After September 2025, rainfall almost completely ...

The Sangtam Naga community has passed a resolution banning pangolin hunting to address wildlife trafficking along the India-Myanmar border. Nagaland is a critical wildlife corridor for the illegal ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. “A construction worker in Ahmedabad who labours through 45-degree heat loses income, risks injury, returns to a poorly ventilated home that doesn’t ...

Humid heat is rising fast along India’s coasts, pushing human tolerance limits, a new study shows. Fishers say their workdays are shrinking, as heat turns labour into endurance. Warming seas are ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Dipti Dheeraj Bhandari, a fisherwoman from Mumbai’s Charkop village, has been worried for weeks. In mid-December 2025, the Bombay High Court ...

A new study has found that after the 2016 ban on river sand mining in Kerala, stone quarries have expanded near protected areas in the Western Ghats to extract stone for M-sand production. The ...

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 ...

Initiated in the early 1970s, the Mandal dam remains unfinished, displacing hundreds of families without full compensation. Despite fresh clearances and reduced reservoir levels, locals say jobs, land ...

Nagaland is the first state in India to insure its entire geography against heavy rainfall. The scheme was revised to include a more accurate threshold based on localised meteorological data, and ...

Farmers in Andhra Pradesh shifted from monocropping to crop diversification, with micro-irrigation reducing water use. Despite this, cash crops dominate due to market pressures and flawed government ...