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Scientists at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have reported two roadkill incidents of the rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus) at the National Chambal Sanctuary in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh. The two records are the first documented occurrence of the small carnivore in southern Uttar Pradesh, according to the research paper published in the Journal of Threatened […]

From cloud seeding to carbon capture, there are several technologies and interventions increasingly being promoted as silver bullet solutions to environmental challenges. Through evidence-based reporting, we look beyond the headlines to assess the scientific evidence, practical challenges and the scale of the potential impact of some of these solutions.This article was originally published on Mongabay

Barun Kumar Yadav from Jharkhand works in Bhilai city in the neighbouring state of Chhattisgarh as a carpenter. At the end of June he went to his village Pathalgada in Chatra district for the sowing season. This is when farmers sow paddy in Jharkhand. Rainfall is extremely crucial for this season. Yadav waited for weeks,

In the sandy fields of Jamal, a village in the Sirsa district of Haryana, water for irrigation does not arrive through a single source. It is mixed, stored, lifted, diluted, timed, subsidised and improvised. Jamal’s landscape first appears dry and exposed: mustard and wheat fields stretch across a semi-arid plain, field channels cutting through farms,

WordPress 7.1 beta is now available for testing, and we have been running it on our test sites for the past week. The official release is scheduled for August 19, 2026, timed with WordCamp US. While WordPress 7.0 rebuilt the admin and introduced the AI Client, 7.1 turns to the editor. For the first time,

Who amongst us is fortunate enough to get a fighting chance against a killer disease by timely access to the latest therapies, and who is left to die for lack of access to life-saving medicines? The question raises ethical concerns since the obvious answer is that only the well-to-do are the lucky ones. Affordability is

Climate change is affecting cities more and more. This creates major challenges, but it also gives fast-growing cities, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, the chance to adapt to global warming in new and better ways. Cities rely on roads, pipes and flood barriers to work well when a climate disaster strikes. This is physical infrastructure. But

California is once again confronting a rapidly escalating wildfire season fuelled by extreme heat, drying vegetation, drought and strong winds. As of July 24, the state has recorded more than 3,800 wildfires so far this year, burning approximately 79,000 hectares. The largest active blaze, in Lassen County, had grown to more than 28,000 hectares. The immediate

With the onset of the southwest monsoon in Himachal Pradesh, incidents of floods, cloudbursts and landslides have intensified. On July 24, a vehicle going from Kullu to Pangi was hit by rocks falling from a hill on the Sansari-Kilad-Thirot-Tandi road near Kadhu Nala in the Udaipur subdivision of Lahaul-Spiti district. In the accident, 13 people