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 ...

Algeria’s Tassili N’Ajjer plateau is Africa’s largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world’s largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited ...

Vehicles in New Delhi. Representative image. Photo: lingaraj/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 The following excerpt from Jyoti Pande Lavakare’s Breathing Here Is Injurious To Your Health (November 2020) is ...

For more than a century, people around the world have tried to stop “encroaching deserts” by planting “green walls” of trees, sometimes thousands of kilometres long. These efforts have failed. Tree ...

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 ...

Globally, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are beginning to receive the required attention. Once regarded as a “silent killer” of the rich, they have slowly started surpassing communicable diseases as ...

Chandigarh: India’s energy requirements are spiking. Electricity consumption has more than doubled since the year 2000. And this trend is only likely to continue. India’s latest National Electricity ...

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 ...

An ape that lived 21 million years ago was used to a habitat that was both grassy and wooded. Photo: Corbin Rainbolt Human evolution is tightly connected to the environment and landscape of Africa, ...

Building codes are not new to India, and the first iteration of the National Building Code (NBC) dates back to 1970. While the NBC had general building guidelines in place, there were none pertaining ...

Male birth control pills aren’t available yet, but there are already accusations that men won’t want to take them, or can’t be relied upon to take them responsibly. “Let’s say this new non-hormonal ...

The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility. Photo: Damien Jemison/LLNL CC BY SA 3.0 But in truth, generating electrical power from fusion commercially or at an industrial scale is likely ...