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Monsoon becomes active across India as Delhi and 17 states receive heavy rainfall and storm warnings from weather authorities. Gujarat faces severe flood conditions, with over 40,000 people evacuated to safer locations amid continuous heavy rainfall. Assam flood crisis worsens as death toll reaches 61, affecting more than seven lakh people across several districts. Low-pressure

The more things change, the more they stay the same. A new book India’s Forests, edited by environmental historians Arupjyoti Saikia and Mahesh Rangarajan, which showcases both the deep continuities in the social ecology of forests from ancient times to present day, as well as the disruptions over this period, exemplifies this truism. India’s Forests represents exciting new

In the Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh, where the Vindhya hills flatten out into the dry plains of Bundelkhand, two forests sit next to each other and could not be more different. One is a devsthal, a sacred grove watched over by the village community, its canopy still thick with mahua and sal. The other

Standing beside her fishpond in Paschim Satgaon village of Assam’s Nagaon district, 43-year-old farmer Swapna Marak points to her vegetable patch, pig and poultry shed. “Earlier, if one crop failed, everything failed,” she says. “Now every part of the farm supports another.” For years, like many farmers across Northeast India, Marak depended largely on commercial

In Assam, one of the worst-hit regions this season, the Brahmaputra and its tributaries are in spate, submerging vast areas and cutting off entire villages. At least 41 people have died, while nearly 653,000 have been affected. Homes, roads and agricultural land lie damaged. The worst-hit districts—Sivasagar, Charaideo, Golaghat and Jorhat—remain inundated, with nearly 939

Dholes (Cuon alpinus), also known as Asiatic wild dogs, are among the most threatened carnivores globally and are currently listed as ‘endangered’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Understanding what they eat, can offer clues that will aid in their conservation. Researchers have now developed a new technique to analyse their diet

This is the second part in a series comparing India and Brazil’s ethanol transitions. Brazil’s decades-long experience shows that producing ethanol is only half the challenge. This story examines the real test which lies in procurement, storage, transport and quality control, the systems that decide whether ethanol actually reaches the pump reliably. The first part