Annamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu will host India's first Centre of Excellence for Hornbill Conservation, dedicated to long-term study and conservation.

Since 2020, the environment ministry has allowed projects like highways to extract ordinary earth without needing environmental clearance. In March 2025, it introduced a new regulatory framework to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Delhi’s seven biodiversity parks, restored from degraded lands, serve as urban forests. Successful habitat restoration supports native species, while experts urge integrating these parks into city ...

Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh has a long-established leather industry with two major leather clusters, Jajmau and Unnao, that contribute significantly to the local economy. The legacy leather sector, ...

The Indus river dolphin is found only in the lower Indus river system in Pakistan and India. Since the 1870s, its habitat has shrunk by 80%, leaving around 2,000 individuals today.

A unique automated ice reservoir in Ladakh’s Igoo village stores four million litres of water, uses sensors and weather data, and boasts 80% efficiency in ice formation.

In the late nineteenth century, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) were introduced to the Andaman Islands to work in timber operations that continued until the early 2000s. On occasions working ...

The fishing cat is not your regular feline: it loves the mud and water of wetland habitats, unlike others. The mysterious species roams the wetlands of South and Southeast Asia, where it has uniquely ...

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 ...