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For the first time in years, environmental concerns have been displaced by geo-economic confrontation as the top short-term risk

Science & Technology

India is facing up to its innovation lag

Latha Jishnu

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There are signs now that India is acknowledging the superior strides made by China in a frontier technology like AI

Introduced in 1998, bamboo rafting on the Periyar lake helped turn a forest-produce smuggling corridor into a patrolling zone

Wildlife & Biodiversity

Conserve or perish

K A Shaji

10 hours ago

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Periyar Tiger Reserve has rewritten Indian conservation by turning poachers into protectors and conflict into coexistence

Wildlife & Biodiversity

Conserve or perish

K A Shaji

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Water

Great drying

Akshit Sangomla

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Climate Change

Unexplored potential

Jayanta Basu

10 hours ago

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Economy

Competing concerns

Shagun

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Used cooking oil, co-fired at existing oil refineries to create sustainable aviation fuel, is abundantly available in India but not channelled properly

Energy

From fryer to flight

Puja Das

10 hours ago

2 min read

Energy

India-US trade deal: Tariffs cut to 18%, $500 billion purchases floated as energy, solar sectors watch closely

Puja Das

11 hours ago

4 min read

New tweaks in financial commission includes open forest & rewards for expanding forest cover

Forests

16th Finance Commission overhauls forest formula, rewards open forests, growth

Himanshu Nitnaware

11 hours ago

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Energy

Energy efficiency must anchor India’s decarbonisation push as demand surges: Experts

Puja Das

12 hours ago

3 min read

Water

What lies beneath

Sushmita Sengupta

13 hours ago

3 min read

Wildlife & Biodiversity

New study provides framework for addressing racism, discrimination and marginalisation in global conservation

Cyril Zenda

14 hours ago

6 min read

Economy

Poll-bound Bengal gets a few infra projects, but less investment compared to pre-budget expectations

Jayanta Basu

14 hours ago

5 min read

Wildlife & Biodiversity

IPBES 12: Global biodiversity meeting begins at Manchester

Shimali Chauhan

15 hours ago

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Climate Change

Preventable deaths in a warming world: How politics shapes who lives & who dies

Aaron Thierry

15 hours ago

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Africa

Africa-made climate models required for better forecasts, early warning and attribution

Akshit Sangomla

29 Jan 2026

4 min read

Africa

Africa at the heart of global food crisis, with Nigeria the epicentre

Kiran Pandey

23 Jan 2026

4 min read

Environment

The defence of borders must coexist with that of biospheres

Sagari Gupta

13 Jan 2026

4 min read

Energy

The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states and electro-states — here’s what to watch for in 2026

Jennifer Morgan

07 Jan 2026

5 min read

Climate Change

El Niño missing, blame fossil fuel for deadlier climate extremes in 2025: WWA

Puja Das

30 Dec 2025

3 min read

Africa

‘Solving one crisis by deepening another’: Critics question Tanzania’s decision to tax imported vehicles and fund its HIV response

Kizito Makoye

24 Dec 2025

6 min read

Forests

Increasing demand for minerals used in renewables could further worsen mining-related deforestation in future: Study

Susan Chacko

23 Dec 2025

3 min read

Environment

A world remade by rivalry

Sunita Narain

22 Jan 2026

4 min read

Water

Sewage before supply

Sunita Narain

12 Jan 2026

3 min read

Editorial

Fit solar into electricity

Sunita Narain

26 Nov 2025

4 min read

Editorial

“Just between you and me”

Sunita Narain

19 Nov 2025

6 min read

Editorial

End the annual charades

Sunita Narain

11 Nov 2025

3 min read

Editorial

To do or not to do

Sunita Narain

22 Oct 2025

3 min read

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India is facing up to its innovation lag

Conserve or perish

Conserve or perish

Great drying

Unexplored potential

Competing concerns

From fryer to flight

India-US trade deal: Tariffs cut to 18%, $500 billion purchases floated as energy, solar sectors watch closely

16th Finance Commission overhauls forest formula, rewards open forests, growth

Energy efficiency must anchor India’s decarbonisation push as demand surges: Experts

What lies beneath

New study provides framework for addressing racism, discrimination and marginalisation in global conservation

Poll-bound Bengal gets a few infra projects, but less investment compared to pre-budget expectations

IPBES 12: Global biodiversity meeting begins at Manchester

World

Preventable deaths in a warming world: How politics shapes who lives & who dies

Africa-made climate models required for better forecasts, early warning and attribution

Africa at the heart of global food crisis, with Nigeria the epicentre

The defence of borders must coexist with that of biospheres

The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states and electro-states — here’s what to watch for in 2026

El Niño missing, blame fossil fuel for deadlier climate extremes in 2025: WWA

‘Solving one crisis by deepening another’: Critics question Tanzania’s decision to tax imported vehicles and fund its HIV response

Increasing demand for minerals used in renewables could further worsen mining-related deforestation in future: Study

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A world remade by rivalry

Sewage before supply

Fit solar into electricity

“Just between you and me”

End the annual charades

To do or not to do