The Friday after; India comes out calling for climate action

Children and adults protest demanding better policies against climate change from government

Saving coral reefs like these can save other ecosystems

Limiting greenhouse gas emissions, rebuilding fish stocks and improving quality of water can help protect reefs

Footpaths for pedestrians: Will these hurdles be cleared?

The Supreme Court recently ordered that all footpaths in Delhi be made free of any kind of encroachment. Here are a few ways residents have made it impossible for pedestrians to walk on them

Water levels recede in Kolhapur, troubles don’t

Damaged houses, no source of clean water are what residents of this flood-battered Kolhapur village came back to

Yamuna swells: More than 23,000 people evacuated in Delhi

These pictures taken on August 21, 2019 show how people living in low-lying areas of the Capital struggled as water entered their homes

World Photography Day: Every photo tells a story

A collection of frames, each of which has a tale from the nature to tell

Sealing the dragon's lair

Indonesia decides to close its Komodo island, home to the world's largest lizards, to tourists in order to conserve the animals

Simply put: Decoding Budget 2019

Gujarat’s rain-fed Fofal river dries up

This has sent villagers in Saurashtra region into a tizzy owing to the acute agrarian crisis

Mining maims the mighty Aravallis

Illegal mining and real estate projects batter the 2.5 billion years old mountain range in just 40 years

Photo essay: The Missing Zangti

The Himalayan region is highly sensitive towards changes in global climate, and more than half of glaciers in Satluj Basin are set to vanish by 2050

Odisha village still reels under wrath of Cyclone Fani

Around 2 lakh people depend on the Chilika Lake for their livelihood, which is also home to 261 species of fish, 28 species of prawns and 34 species of crabs

Story of a cloth and why it’s important for menstruation

While several people believe that when it comes to menstrual hygiene, women in urban India are much better off than their village counterparts, it doesn't seem to be entirely true

Saving a Caribbean Polly

Jon Paul Rodríguez, a Venezuelan naturalist, has been awarded the Whitley Fund for Nature’s gold award for his 30-year-long odyssey to save the Yellow-Shouldered Parrot

The myth of a clean Kumbh

The NGT flagged poor solid waste management during the Kumbh Mela on the Ganga, which both the Centre and UP claimed to be 'swachh' or clean. But is it the reality?

The Fani havoc across Odisha

With the speed of 175 kilometres per hour (kmph), cylone Fani made landfall in Odisha’s Puri district at 8.30 am on May 3, 2019

Brought back to life

Associate professor of anatomy at Mumbai Veterinary College, Santosh Gaikwad, is often called by forest departments, national parks and zoos across India to help preserve rare and exotic birds and animals. He also preserves pets for bereaved owners who refuse to part with them

World Earth Day: Why the planet is worth saving

On World Earth Day, six stunning photos from NASA show the beauty of our unique planet and warns us of the threat from imminent climate change

Eleven sites and extensions get UNESCO Global Geopark Label

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on April 18, 2019 — the World Heritage Day — conferred the Global Geopark Label on eight new sites across the world. With the latest additions, the total number of Global UNESCO Geopark sites stands at 147 across 41 countries. Below are some of them.

Temple and open defecation: Shifting narratives of sacred and profane

How did people of Karnataka’s Berambadi village strategically redefine the nature of open defecation spaces?

In a galaxy far, far away... the story of black holes in pics

Here is a primer on black holes, about which Albert Einstein had predicted and which we can now observe in real terms

India's marine meadows

Tape seagrass, which has the longest leaves among its kind found in Indian waters, is a major carbon sink. A recent study has some useful insights on its flowering and fruiting