New construction and demolition waste rules now require producers to take responsibility for their waste, pay penalties for violations, and report activities for monitoring through a central online ...

Green jobs are evolving beyond technical roles and fieldwork; people with skills or experience in fields such as engineering, finance, architecture, communications, law and others can find positions ...

Residents of Keni, a coastal village in Karnataka, are resisting the construction of a new port on their shoreline. As the government pushes ahead with the project, residents remain deeply concerned ...

Apart from mechanical and chemical control methods to tackle invasive plant species, scientists also employ classical biocontrol agents such as fungi. Key to the success of a classical biocontrol ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. During a field visit for a research project, we met two brothers in Narmadapuram district, Madhya Pradesh. They are from Amritsar, Punjab. Their ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. But the one ring does not exist in the reality of India’s eroding wetlands, and instead of orcs, humans are responsible for much of the destruction ...

Successful mangrove restoration requires balancing ecological goals with social and economic realities, as exemplified by the community-led efforts of Tridibnagar. Large-scale projects often fail due ...

Industrial plants participating in an air pollution emissions trading scheme reduced particulate emissions by 20-30%. Apart from reducing emissions, the air pollution market also resulted in fewer ...

A research team is drilling boreholes in Mount Everest’s Western Cwm to measure glacier temperatures and understand why Himalayan glaciers are warming and melting faster than expected. Data from the ...

Last month, a caracal was recorded by a camera trap for the first time in Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan. The forest department plans to increase the number of camera traps in the location, ...

The International Maritime Organization has approved a framework requiring ships to pay for carbon emissions, starting 2028. The framework sets emission reduction targets benchmarked against 2008 ...

Rapid urbanisation, encroachment, and poor governance have led to the degradation of Bengaluru’s lakes, once important for water storage and flood control. 85% of the 183 remaining lakes are severely ...