Inhalable microplastics are a subset of airborne microplastics. While airborne microplastics are typically less than 5 mm in ...

On August 5, Dharali, a village in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, was hit by a flash flood in the Himalayan stream Kheer Gad, leaving at least 68 people missing and one dead. Rapid construction over the ...

Rapid urbanisation, encroachment, and poor governance have led to the degradation of Bengaluru’s lakes, once important for water storage and flood control. 85% of the 183 remaining lakes are severely ...

China’s plans to build a 60,000 megawatt dam on its side of the Brahmaputra has renewed the Indian government’s interest in building its own mega dam, the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in ...

The activism around Kerala’s Silent Valley was a grassroots movement to protect the pristine forests from being submerged by a proposed hydroelectric dam, highlighting the conflict between ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), an organisation dedicated to developing technologies for exploring and harnessing ocean ...

It was like any other day in a rainy season. The people of Vellarimala hill ranges in the Western Ghats of Wayanad district of Kerala had little inkling of what was in store when they went to sleep on ...

Rapid urbanisation, population growth, and unplanned development have led to land use and land cover changes in Ladakh, adding stress on groundwater resources in the region, says a new study.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In April 2024, the members of Bengaluru’s Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) decided to record a woodland near Manyata Tech Park in the city’s ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Over two decades, between 2000 and 2019, India faced the third most number of natural disaster events in the world. Future prospects are grim – ...

Marine heat waves are events where ocean temperatures rise to extreme levels and hold steady for at least five days. These heat waves, that occur over the ocean, are likely to extend to 220-250 days a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. This story is Part 2 of a three-part series about the advances in agricultural technology in India. It discusses the commonly used agricultural ...