Environment
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Climate change and neglect put butterflies on the brink of extinction in South Asia
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Why India’s tallest leader would have led the struggle against the Narmada Project
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In Ecuador, Indigenous groups’ use of ‘legal rights’ to save protected forest is inspiring others
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Tourist influx for ‘firefly festivals’, climate change threatens survival of delicate insect species
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India ranked 176 out of 180 in 2024 Global Nature Conservation Index
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How the invasive water hyacinth is helping build livelihoods – with an ecological bonus
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Andaman Islands and its mangroves still reeling from effects of 2004 tsunami
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The outsize legacy of Kaziranga’s mahouts and their elephants
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In Nigeria’s desert state, afforestation initiative blooms with community support
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Pollution, human-wildlife conflict might cause high stress among mugger crocodiles, finds study
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Borewell costs, increasing demand keep the faith in unproven ‘water diviners’
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Exempt exploratory drilling from clearance, consider it ‘forest activity’, says government panel
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14 years after the dilution of the Gadgil report, devastation continues in the Western Ghats
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How automated ice stupas could become a lifeline in remote parts of Leh
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Sardar Sarovar dam water level altered, displaced residents left with ruined homes, no compensation
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Heatwaves are killing India’s fruit bats, crucial to pollination and seed dispersal
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After climate change and neglect, ethnic violence further strains Manipur’s Loktak Lake
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Climate change driven shrimp farming in the Sundarbans is disrupting ecology, livelihoods
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Oil exploration off the coast of Kanniyakumari could harm ecologically-rich Wadge Bank
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Greater Adjutant stork population improves, but many fall prey to poison in food and water
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33,000 trees to be felled for proposed Kanwar pilgrimage route: Uttar Pradesh government tells NGT
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Bird species on the decline as Maharashtra grasslands shrink
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Disposal is a challenge as coconut husks pile up across Indian cities amid high summer demand
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Dangerous waters: Indian fishers in search of better catch are venturing into deep sea – and peril
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As wetlands of Assam’s Majuli island go dry, ecology thrown out of balance
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In the Nilgiris, hybrids in different shades of brown indicate intermingling of langur species
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Bird watching in the Sundarbans: Crouching tigers, chasing kingfishers
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Hotels likely to return to Nepal’s national parks
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Nepal’s environment ministry working on plan to allow ropeway and cable cars in protected areas
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Mountain biking, with tigers: Nepal proposal sparks alarm
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Global warming can affect the ability of forests to suck carbon from atmosphere, shows study
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In Kashmir’s mountainous meadows, increasing lightning strikes kill livestock, put shepherds at risk
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Land use, forest cover and migration: Study analyses the effects of the Konkan Railways
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String of disasters in Himalayas should prompt urgent reconsideration of big infrastructure projects
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In arid Rajasthan, how community efforts are rejuvenating life-sustaining khadeens
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More than 50% worldwide snakebite deaths are in India – what is the antidote?
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Adivasis fear loss of land and livelihood as a Rajasthan sanctuary gets upgraded to a tiger reserve
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Exotic and invasive fish thrive in water hyacinth in Nepal’s water bodies
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Soil degradation in India could spell disaster for food security and livelihoods
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Rising temperature, changing rainfall pattern take a toll on coffee plantations in Kodagu
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Nepal’s vulture population is slowly recovering but challenges remain
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COP28: UAE minister, oil baron as president, funding woes – what to expect from the climate summit
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In Sundarbans, poison fishing continues despite Bangladesh court order
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Supreme Court’s environment monitoring committee now under Centre
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Little evidence that carbon offsets reduce deforestation, emissions
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Amendment to forest conservation act leaves 28% of India’s forest cover vulnerable
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Pakistan’s unending political crisis has sidelined climate challenges the country faces
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For the first time in 35 years, two women among nominees to head key UN climate change panel
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Sinking boats, ‘spying’ and hanging out with humans: Why are whales behaving strangely?
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How much should we worry about the harm pets are doing to the environment?
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Trumpeting, rumbling, vibrations and more: How elephants communicate
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Overfishing could spell the end of yellowfin tuna stock in the Indian Ocean in less than a decade
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In a rapidly warming world, India should focus on effectively managing forest fires
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Hydroelectricity power lines across Nepal turn death trap for birds
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Last-known female Yangtze softshell turtle, which represented Vietnam’s ‘turtle god’, found dead
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Centre stops sharing information on environmental impact of projects on its Parivesh website
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How environmental activism played a part in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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Crumbling Joshimath and the collapse of a way of life: The personal anguish of a child of the hills
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Millets held the promise of a climate resilient solution, but crops in Uttarakhand are failing
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‘Planned destruction of Adivasi culture and lives’: Experts raise alarm over Great Nicobar project
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Burial or cremation: Which is the more eco-friendly funeral choice?
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Despite geo-tagging trees in a census, why is Mumbai losing them to unauthorised felling?
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The Koli fishing community has lessons on climate resilience for Mumbai and the rest of the world
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Beer and milk production is being threatened by droughts worldwide. And this is just the beginning
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Faced with government failure, citizens are increasingly resorting to climate litigation
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In photos: Life along the gushing waters of a rare free-flowing river in the Himalayas
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In times of climate change and water pollution, Kashmir’s ‘sacred’ springs could provide solutions
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In West Bengal, ambitious efforts to plant mangroves yield limited results
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The new plan to develop the National Capital Region is a blow to the conservation of the Aravalis
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A traveller reflects on the Brahmaputra river’s changing mood along its course
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What’s in India’s new energy bill? Carbon credit market and green energy for residential buildings
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How tourism has taken a toll on the livelihoods of fisherfolk in a town in coastal West Bengal
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Poor and unscientific plans are destroying the ecologically rich wetlands of Kashmir
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In Haryana, packs of stray dogs are attacking blackbucks and other wildlife
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On the cliffs of the Himalayas in Nepal, a honey-hunting community grapples with change
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Explainer: Why planting trees is not a cure-all for climate change
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Why massive tree plantation drives are a disaster for desert ecosystems
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In Rajasthan, villagers are planting trees on weddings and funerals to help restore degraded land
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Like canaries in the coal mine, birds can tell us a lot about Earth’s health
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A map of rainfall-driven soil erosion in India may help in conservation and restoration
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In Uttar Pradesh, a bird sanctuary’s survival is threatened by the expansion of a university
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Blamed by locals for forest fires, Chirpine trees are acutally keeping the Himalayas green
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In a West Bengal village, locals have revived a barren hillock through reforestation
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Will India’s neutrino observatory hurt the environment? Tamil Nadu and the Centre can’t agree
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India wants to spend Rs 19,300 crore on rejuvenating Yamuna and 12 other rivers through plantations
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Uttar Pradesh’s use of Gambusia fish to check dengue may do more harm in the long run
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How India’s depleting groundwater levels are changing the shape of the land above
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How many lakes does Bengaluru really have? A crowdsourcing initiative is finding out
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Grassroots solution: In the Sundarbans, scientists are trying a new way to spur mangrove growth
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‘Desecration of the Himalayas’: Chairperson of SC-appointed panel for Char Dham road project quits
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Is India’s forest cover growing? Yes, but if you count coffee estates and clumps of trees in cities
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In Asia, lack of good-quality and genetically diverse seeds may limit reforestation plans
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To unlock the full potential of its mangroves, India needs to first plug gaps in research
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In Arunachal Pradesh, local communities have joined hands with forest officials to conserve orchids
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Kerala’s Marayoor sandalwood forests are under the threat of declassification and spike disease
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In Punjab, sacred forests are shrinking due to encroachments and invasive species
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In Brahmaputra’s floodplains, planted forests can help in tackling soil erosion
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In Bangladesh, the shrimp industry is driving a freshwater crisis
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Europe is driving tree loss across the world even as its own forest cover is increasing
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In Jharkhand’s Rajmahal hills, stone mining is threatening an Adivasi group and rare fossils