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India's progress in integrating climate education into the mainstream syllabus has been slow, but some educators are working ...
In ‘Our Potpourri Planet’ by Ranjit Lal, climate challenges are connected with the author's own experiences in the natural world.
A research team is drilling boreholes in Mount Everest’s Western Cwm to understand why Himalayan glaciers are melting faster than expected.
The Save Silent Valley movement gained momentum as an altruistic people's campaign, involving students, scientists, and citizens.
The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) recently conducted an exploratory deep-sea mining trial in the Andaman Sea.
Despite government promotion, nano urea faces challenges, including higher labour costs and reduced effectiveness. Reliance on urea harms the environment and economy, necessitating reforms.
Agrivoltaics in India faces scalability challenges despite a decade of trials, but innovations in space management and integrated farming systems offer promising solutions.
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 ...
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.
India’s biodiversity hotspots are being increasingly fragmented by roads, dams, plantations, and urbanisation, which disrupt the complex interdependent relationships among species. This fragmentation ...
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 ...