Featured photo: Seratobikiba/Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Tribal communities in the Araku Valley of Andhra Pradesh “signed away” their rights to carbon credits through a local NGO intermediary ...

Sea ice around the Antarctic has shrunk and is responding to the atmosphere differently. The challenge is to work out why. Throughout 2023, the area of ocean around Antarctica covered by sea ice was ...

As for improving air quality and quality of life during winter in north India, reassessing agricultural practices, irrigation, handling of crop residue and prevention of open fires could be a win-win.

But, a new report on India’s forensic science system finds that there are large vacancies in government forensic labs, funding delays and underutilisation of budgets, and need for more space and ...

A fire in Maui. Representative image. Photo: Kahunapule Michael Johnson/Flickr CC BY SA 2.0 One of the worst natural disasters in Hawaii’s history has killed at least 67 people and wiped out the ...

In October 2022, India’s Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with other ministries and departments, announced that it would host a four-day conference called “Akash For Life” at a ...

Representative image of a ‘Miyawaki forest’. Photo: BemanHerish/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 It was half past midnight as we peeled our eyes off our computer screens. My colleague and I leaned back ...

A male blue-eyed yellow bush frog vocalising. Photo: Seshadri.K.S/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Frogs use vocal acoustics to communicate a myriad of information. Males use advertisement calls to ...

Embodied emissions are released during the material sourcing, construction, and demolition stages of the building life cycle. They are unaccounted for in the existing versions of building codes.

On December 13, the US Department of Energy announced that the National Ignition Facility had reached a “milestone”: the achievement of “ignition” in nuclear fusion earlier in the month. While the ...

The following article is an extended excerpt from ‘Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free’, a report prepared by researchers with the Basic Research Community for Physics (BRCP). It was ...

This article is the first of a two-part series that examines India’s plans for over two dozen mega hydroelectric (hydel) power projects in the Himalayan and Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspots, ...