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

Africa needs climate-smart agriculture: report

Inaction towards climate change will affect food production and increase malnutrition

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

Mammalian species of India stable for past 200,000 years: study

Finding has implications for survival of mammalian species in India today

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 …

Food basket is shrinking

Local fruits and veggies hold the key to food, nutritional security

'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 …