Uranium in water can cause chronic kidney diseases, but India doesn’t monitor it

This is when severely high levels of Uranium are present in groundwater that people consume, says a study

How to make camel milk profitable for small herders

Forming a cooperative to streamline production and market products can benefit small-scale herders who are losing income

Rs 1.56 lakh crore of solar development approved in Rajasthan

State government gave approval for investment proposals belonging to four major power firms

Opinion: Cold submission

The Plachimada case can set a precedent for compensation claims for pollution victims. Is that the only reason the Union government is trying to …

Costs threaten future of green army

Putting retired Indian army personnel to work on reforestation was a unique and effective idea. But the decade-old scheme has been soured by a …

Healthy move, say environmentalists,hegemony, complain states

The Rajasthan and Haryana governments feel threatened by the Centre's move to stop industrial, mining and quarrying activity in the Aravalli …

Ready to die

WILLING TO SACRIFICE· duration: 25 minutes· directed by B V P Rao produced by Yamini Films

Small is more

A small water harvesting structure can produce amazing economic crossover effects. The same may not be true for large canals

Puppet power

Gyani Baba (wise saint, literarily), a seven feet-tall puppet with handle moustache, is up for a big task in Rajasthan's Ajmer district. He is …

Birds and bees of a tiger park

Book>> Biodiversity of Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan by V Singh and A K Shrivastava Scientific Publishers Jodhpur

Waters of life

Tarun Bharat Sangh of Alwar is well-known for its work on reviving traditions of waterharvesting. But few know about the economic advantages of …

Rajasthan drafts its own wildlife tourism guidelines

Allows tourism in core tiger habitats and areas in reserves from where villages were uprooted

A dharna here, a court victory there: How Rajasthan villages try to keep their land from solar firms

Encroachment of pastureland was possible because government doesn't recognise them as village commons, say locals

Step towards transparency: Rajasthan pollution control board shares emissions data online

Many states yet to disclose CEMS data on their websites despite SC mandate in 2017

Déjà vu in Sambhar: Over 49 crows die in 3 days, samples sent to Bhopal

Over 18,000 birds had died of avian botulism in 2019 in and around Sambhar lake

How MGNREGA water conservation project turned a Rajasthan district into an Oasis

The greenery in Dungarpur district is a stark contrast to the desert state

Monsoon withdrawal from parts of northwest India has started: IMD

The withdrawal is 28 days late this time, compared to 40 days last year

Desertification in India: A livestock keeper says how his stock has plummeted

‘I dream of gardens in the desert sand, I wake in vain’

Swine flu impacts tourism in Rajasthan, Maharashtra

Revenue loss projected at over Rs 5,000 crore by industry body

Royal rendezvous at Udaipur

With help from worms

Shekhawati farmers in Rajasthan go organic

Heat on in solar thermal power project

Mosquitoes storm the desert

A cerebral malaria epidemic in Rajasthan has its source in the Indira Gandhi Canal

Exit villagers

Twice ousted