Batagur kachuga turtles have been translocated and released in the Ganga river and tagged with sonic devices to monitor them.

Vaishali Shroff’s Submerged Worlds and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Mighty Rivers is a deeply moving exploration of India’s rivers. Well-researched and readable stories take you through their ...

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 ...

China’s plans to build a 60,000 megawatt dam on its side of the Brahmaputra has renewed the Indian government’s interest in building its own mega dam, the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in ...

Community members monitoring ecology in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve integrate traditional knowledge with modern scientific methods to monitor climate impacts on their forests, rivers, and farms.

Towering landfills are testament to poor waste segregation practices in India that have persisted for decades. But India’s mounting, untreated waste is a problem whose consequences go beyond its ...

What can animal sound tell us about their behaviour? Listen to episode 2 of Wild Frequencies to learn how researchers use bioacoustics.

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.

State governments and organisations are increasingly experimenting with parametric insurance to cope with losses from natural disasters.

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 ...

As the controversial Vadhavan port project in Maharashtra awaits the union cabinet nod, fishing communities and marine researchers say that the project would have impacts on the biodiversity and ...

Livestock farmers are increasingly adopting small-scale hydroponic fodder units to overcome the shortage of green fodder, but the expansion of the technique has its challenges.