On August 5, a flash flood in river Kheer Gad flowing through Dharali, Uttarakhand, left 68 missing and one dead. Rescue ...

Arathi Menon is a senior staff writer. She is based in Mysore, Karnataka.

Nabarun Guha is a freelance journalist based in Assam. While he majorly writes on environmental issues, he also covers beats like politics, sports and culture.

Rejuvenation of Jakkur Lake has attracted attention from media & citizens. The role of the fishing community is crucial to Jakkur's success.

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

India's environment ministry released the methodology for generating green credits from tree planting. Experts raised concerns about the environmental soundness of the scheme and possible regulatory ...

The Sixth Schedule safeguards tribal interests via autonomous governance in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Mizoram. Ladakh, with 97% tribal population, protests for Sixth Schedule inclusion for ...

While a slew of start-ups have come up in India in recent years for upcycling and refurbishing damaged shoes, footwear recycling is still at a nascent stage.

Over a 1000 women in Vellore district built recharge wells and check dams to recharge groundwater which, in turn, revived Naganadhi river.

Muppandal wind farm, home to India's largest operational onshore wind farm in terms of installed capacity has led to a huge social impact in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu.

With the vulture, it was the tragedy of the commons. Once, these large, ungainly birds were ubiquitous – seen in both cities and countryside, perched on trees and electric poles, cliffs and housetops.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for Pune’s River Rejuvenation Project in March, announcing the commencement of the ambitious project that aims to redesign and reengineer ...