Soil is a dominant theme in the displays at this year’s Durga Puja celebrations in West Bengal, according to a “green puja” ...

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IN THE 1990s, when Maoist violence was on the rise in Chhattisgarh (then part of Madhya Pradesh), Anup Ranjan Pandey was ...

Soil is the next gold — this is as down-to-earth as it can be. This stepped-on material, which we take for granted, holds the key to so much we need to change in our world — from increased ...

Global deforestation dropped 15% in 2025, the sharpest decline since 2018-2020, but the world remains off track to halt ...

When they decide to leave their homes, they are, in effect, signing their own death certificates. Such is their desperation ...

Large parts of northern India are likely to experience intense rainfall, thunderstorms, hailstorms and gusty winds on ...

Traditional seed banks do more than provide insurance against doomsday scenarios. They preserve the genetic diversity of ...

For Mehak (name changed), 28, a resident of Srinagar’s Bagh-e-Mehtab, the absence of a regular water supply has turned a ...

Solid waste dumping in Upper Lake, BhopalBhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) was directed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ...

Zimbabwe plans to set up a $500 million cash and grain reserve to counter the effects of a likely El Niño-induced drought on ...

Hexavalent chromium contamination in Nashik's groundwater has reached 1,000 times the permissible limit, leading to 109 ...