Batagur kachuga turtles have been translocated and released in the Ganga river and tagged with sonic devices to monitor them.

Rejuvenation of Jakkur Lake has attracted attention from media & citizens. The role of the fishing community is crucial to Jakkur's success.

Twenty years after the 2004 tsunami, coastal zones and mangroves in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are still changing – while some sites were uplifted, others subsided.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for Pune’s River Rejuvenation Project in March, announcing the commencement of the ambitious project that aims to redesign and reengineer ...

Ambikapur, a city in Chhattisgarh, created its own decentralised waste management plan that not only minimises waste that reaches a landfill site, but also generates revenue for the local municipal ...

The 1980 Forest (Conservation) Act, supplemented by the apex court's definition of forests, aimed to curb unchecked forest diversion. Subsequently, the Forest Rights Act empowered forest dwellers, but ...

Issues of access and benefit-sharing from digital sequence information on genetic sources (DSI) will be a critical point of negotiations at the UN Biodiversity Conference or COP15 in Montreal, Canada.

The government of India is pursuing a massive development project involving a container terminal, airport, township, and a power plant on the Great Nicobar Island in the strategically important ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Geological Survey of India (GSI) conducted an inferred level exploration in Jammu & Kashmir recently, where a lithium deposit was identified ...

The pressing issue of soil degradation in India needs immediate attention. Otherwise, it will have devastating impacts on agriculture and the environment.

State governments and organisations are increasingly experimenting with parametric insurance to cope with losses from natural disasters.

The Save Silent Valley movement gained momentum as an altruistic people's campaign, involving students, scientists, and citizens.