India’s construction boom is driving rapid growth in the brick sector, making traditional brick kilns a significant contributor to carbon emissions due to coal-intensive firing processes. In Kanpur, ...

A new study finds that India’s major cities are sinking due to excessive groundwater extraction and soil compaction, putting people and buildings at risk. Experts warn that land subsidence, when ...

The railways have planned to double an existing single railway line from Hospet in Karnataka to Vasco da Gama port in Goa, opening it up for coal transport. A portion of the upcoming line will run ...

On August 5, Dharali, a village in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, was hit by a flash flood in the Himalayan stream Kheer Gad, leaving at least 68 people missing and one dead. Rapid construction over the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Cherrapunji, also known as Sohra, is located in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya. A region with records of the highest rainfall, it is ...

Initiated in the early 1970s, the Mandal dam remains unfinished, displacing hundreds of families without full compensation. Despite fresh clearances and reduced reservoir levels, locals say jobs, land ...

China’s plans to build a 60,000 megawatt dam on its side of the Brahmaputra has renewed the Indian government’s interest in building its own mega dam, the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in ...

The activism around Kerala’s Silent Valley was a grassroots movement to protect the pristine forests from being submerged by a proposed hydroelectric dam, highlighting the conflict between ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In the last few years, there has been a notable decline in the nesting sites of the white-bellied sea eagle in Kerala, raising the need for urgent ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. An investigation by a state government body alleges key documents were forged to secure clearances for mining in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand forest ...

Chandrapur district in Maharashtra is at the epicenter of human-tiger conflicts, with fatalities from tiger attacks on the rise. A combination of factors, including climate change impacts, plays a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), an organisation dedicated to developing technologies for exploring and harnessing ocean ...