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

A new study shows that human disturbance and water stress reduce evergreen tree richness but favour deciduous species, in low-elevation northern Western Ghats forests. Restoration efforts guided by ...

Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and ...

Muppandal in Tamil Nadu is home to India’s largest operational onshore wind farm in terms of installed capacity. Over three decades, there are visible social impacts on the people living in the ...

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 ...

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 – ...

Solar parks need 7,000–20,000 litres of water per megawatt (MW) per wash. Many solar installations in India are located in arid and semi-arid areas bringing significant risk to the local ecosystem and ...

Artisanal fishers of Ariyankundu in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, allege that the shrimp farms behind their village have polluted their groundwater, encroached their commons and that some farms don’t abide ...

As the controversial Vadhavan port project in Maharashtra awaits the union cabinet nod, fishing communities and marine researchers say that the project would have impacts on the biodiversity and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The World Environment Day on June 5 marks the formal launch of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), a decade where ...

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 ...

Dharnai village in Bihar came into limelight in 2014 when the village got a solar mini-grid and was projected as the state’s “first solar village”. However, after three years due to lack of ...