Africa needs climate-smart agriculture: report
Inaction towards climate change will affect food production and increase malnutrition
Mammalian species of India stable for past 200,000 years: study
Finding has implications for survival of mammalian species in India today
Food basket is shrinking
Local fruits and veggies hold the key to food, nutritional security
12 quick facts on global refugee crisis you must know
One in every 113 people globally is either an asylum-seeker, internally displaced or a refugee
Tag Garuda: Bihar plans GPS trackers for endangered Greater Adjutant Storks
Bhagalpur’s riverine plains have led the fight to conserve Greater Adjutant Storks; Now, the birds are being tagged to study their movements
How fracking plans could affect shared water resources in southern Africa
Of all environmental impacts, the negative impact of fracking on water resources is the most serious. This is especially so in water-scarce …
Women water activists gather in Kathmandu to exchange notes
About 100 women from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe attend the first Women and Rivers Congress
Canada apologises to First Nations band after 154 years
Premier Justin Trudeau delivered an apology in the Canadian Lower House of Parliament to chiefs of the Tsilhqot’in Nation for atrocities …
Vultures mostly forage outside protected areas; conservation efforts should be focused there, urges study
New UK study tracked 26 African white-backed vultures fitted with GPS tags for four years over southern Tanzania
Monsoon progresses over Maharashtra, Bihar and Jammu & Kashmir
More than three quarters of the country have experienced monsoon showers in the last four days
351 polluted river stretches in India: A list across states
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in 2018 identified 351 polluted river stretches in India; Maharashtra has the highest number of …
Rewind 2018: Is India’s head above water?
Here’s a lowdown on how India struggled to get its act together as its groundwater levels dipped and water bodies diminished
Sun Pharma to buy troubled giant Ranbaxy
The combined entity will create India’s largest pharma company and world’s fifth-largest specialty generics company
Some villages made their own disaster plan
People say it was lessons from 1999 super cyclone and media warnings that helped save lives during cyclone Phailin
Dumping garbage in rivers is now a crime in Maharashtra
Bombay High Court orders municipalities to register cases and take action against anyone who violates the law
Two sides of the same coin: Shrinking water bodies and urban floods
Water bodies have become even more critical in current times when cities are facing the challenge of rapid, unplanned urbanisation
350,000 Andhra government staff to go on strike against Telangana decision
Call for roll back of decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh; government yet to respond to strike notice
Green tribunal bans quarrying in Sariska
Forest department found 84 stone and marble quarries operating within the tiger reserve and its buffer zone
The fortnight in brief
Himachal villages are first to claim forests rights, J&K's Russian poplars to be felled, Delhi's increasing appetite for power …
Gay sex illegal; Section 377 a valid provision, says Supreme Court
Section 377 which terms same gender sexual contact a criminal offence is often used to harass the gay community—in the process making them …
'Development in Telangana should be participatory'
Eminent economist and former Planning Commission member, C H Hanumantha Rao, speaks to M Suchitra on the aspirations of people of Telangana. Rao …