How tiny pests traverse long distance to attack mustard crops

Researchers from the Kolkata-based Bose Institute have retraced the aerial path these marauders of mustard take

Haze may be contributing to warming in South Asia: study

The warming, in turn, could be the reason behind the reduction in the monsoon in the past few decades

Haryana’s Rors brought Western flavour to the Indus Valley

New genetic study claims that the Rors came to the Indus Valley when it was flourishing during the Bronze Age and inducted West Eurasian genetic …

By 2050, 115 million may face food insecurity due to reduced water level in Ganga

In the summers of 2015 and 2017, domestic water supply in the northern Indian plains was severely affected because of low water level in Ganga

India’s very own Dust Bowl

Rising temperatures, changing weather patterns, depleting groundwater, unsustainable agriculture and deforestation are turning large parts of …

Mapping climate change in India

India is the 13th most vulnerable country to climate change. Since more than 60 per cent of its agriculture is rainfed and it hosts 33 per cent …

The plot thickens

Winter haze caused by thermal plants, not biomass burning

Scientists in Bihar identify bacteria that can naturally treat arsenic in groundwater

The two types of bacteria identified break down a toxic form of arsenic to a less hazardous form

Brickbats for farmlands

Kilns reduce soil nutrition, stunt vegetation

Niti Aayog releases reports on biomass management, clean fuel and clean transport

Union Government’s policy think-tank intends to bring down pollution contribution from major sectors

Aerial threat to Ganga basin

Significant ozone depletion

Expressway on sliding sand

Monsoon earlyburly

Bitter harvest: farmers kill selves

Freak weather destroys crops across India

Power corrupts

Coal-based power plants caus haze over Indo-Gangetic plains

Myth of power

Nourisher of an ancient civilization, the Ganga could be gasping for its survival. Every few kilometres the water of its tributaries will be …