It is now an established strongman’s world, in which each country must work out its own economic future, its alliances and its own road to prosperity
The deaths from contaminated water in Indore expose the short-sightedness of India’s current water-supply model. Tackling the problem will require tighter regulation, better data and a sewage-first approach
With countries like Iran seeing unprecedented, prolonged drought and water resources depleting faster than they are replenished, the world enters an era of water bankruptcy
The world must accept the new water normal if there is hope for mitigation, says Kaveh Madani, director, United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health and author, “Global Water Bankruptcy Report”
The Indian subcontinent does not behave as one coherent hydro-climate unit, says Kaustubh Thirumalai, associate professor, department of geosciences, University of Arizona, US
Periyar Tiger Reserve has rewritten Indian conservation by turning poachers into protectors and conflict into coexistence
What are the repercussions of the EU-Mercosur pact that have made European farmers protest against the free trade agreement?
An amendment to India’s nodal forest conservation law opens up forests across India to commercial exploitation by the paper industry
Can tourism help communities in the Sundarbans cope with climate-induced loss and damage?
Sustainable fuel made from used cooking oil can play a pivotal role in helping India achieve its aviation emission reduction goals. Measures to collect this oil must be revamped
For the first time in years, environmental concerns have been displaced by
geo-economic confrontation as the top short-term risk
There are signs now that India is acknowledging the superior strides
made by China in a frontier technology like AI