If you liked this story, share it with other people. In 1994, a U.S. company and the United States Department of Agriculture secured a European patent for a method of using neem extracts to control ...

India is positioning itself as a global investment hub for artificial intelligence and data centres, with the latest gigawatt-scale investment in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Environmental concerns ...

A new study shows that groundwater, not glaciers, is the lifeline of the Ganga river. Groundwater discharge increases the Ganga river’s volume by about 120% in the Gangetic Plains compared to its ...

Recurring floods in Manipur, including the recent one in September, have inundated villages, farms and houses. While climate change may have a role to play in increasing the intensity of rainfall, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cotton is one of India’s top agricultural exports and between 2011-12 and 2020-21, the country’s cotton exports consumed roughly 40 trillion litres of water. Top cotton-producing districts in ...

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 ...

Three monitoring committees have been set up to oversee that the Great Nicobar development project complies with the conditions of the Environment Clearance granted to it. Wildlife institutes in ...

Solar geoengineering is a controversial technology with the potential to block some of the sun’s radiation and cool the planet. Solar geoengineering, is still a “fringe” topic among the Indian ...

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 ...