If you liked this story, share it with other people. India’s development story, like much of the world, continues to be told through a single number: Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Every quarter, GDP ...

While India has expanded legal protections for sharks and rays, key breeding, nursery, and feeding habitats remain vulnerable. A new study has identified 11 Important Shark and Ray Areas in the Indian ...

In a letter to the Union Tribal Affairs Minister, tribal chiefs of Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar have demanded withdrawal of a 2022 certificate that claimed forest rights had been recognised and ...

Bengaluru’s record-breaking plantation drive has renewed debate over whether mass tree planting is the most effective way to restore urban ecosystems. The Miyawaki method can rapidly create dense ...

More than 15 years on, implementation of Forest Right Act is lagging, new report finds ...

The Sangtam Naga community has passed a resolution banning pangolin hunting to address wildlife trafficking along the India-Myanmar border. Nagaland is a critical wildlife corridor for the illegal ...

Tribal chiefs say they were asked to sign certificates surrendering their land to back the ₹81,000-crore Great Nicobar development. The Nicobarese say they were relocated from their ancestral land on ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Dipti Dheeraj Bhandari, a fisherwoman from Mumbai’s Charkop village, has been worried for weeks. In mid-December 2025, the Bombay High Court ...

A new study uses species distribution modelling to map high-risk areas of human-elephant interactions in Wayanad, Kerala. The model uses an ensemble of ten machine-learning algorithms to analyse human ...

Initiated in the early 1970s, the Mandal dam remains unfinished, displacing hundreds of families without full compensation. Despite fresh clearances and reduced reservoir levels, locals say jobs, land ...

Nagaland is the first state in India to insure its entire geography against heavy rainfall. The scheme was revised to include a more accurate threshold based on localised meteorological data, and ...

Submerged Worlds and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Mighty Rivers by Vaishali Shroff brings together well-researched stories of the ecology, mythology, politics, history and culture of India’s ...