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Featured photo: Seratobikiba/Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Tribal communities in the Araku Valley of Andhra Pradesh “signed away” their rights to carbon credits through a local NGO intermediary ...

The name Sundarbans is derived from the name of Sundari tree which has adapted to the high tides in the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers delta. Photo: Maitheli Maitra/Unsplash Panchanan Dolui, ...

Algeria’s Tassili N’Ajjer plateau is Africa’s largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world’s largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited ...

For more than a century, people around the world have tried to stop “encroaching deserts” by planting “green walls” of trees, sometimes thousands of kilometres long. These efforts have failed. Tree ...

Representative image of various eggs. Photo: HTO/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0, In 2011, a team of scientists led by the paleontologist Zhe-Xi Luo discovered a well-preserved fossil from North-east ...

About 3.75 million hectares of primary tropical forests have been cleared annually in recent years, contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss, and threatening the livelihoods of indigenous ...

Representative image of a ‘Miyawaki forest’. Photo: BemanHerish/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 It was half past midnight as we peeled our eyes off our computer screens. My colleague and I leaned back ...

Building codes are not new to India, and the first iteration of the National Building Code (NBC) dates back to 1970. While the NBC had general building guidelines in place, there were none pertaining ...

The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility. Photo: Damien Jemison/LLNL CC BY SA 3.0 But in truth, generating electrical power from fusion commercially or at an industrial scale is likely ...

The current scholarly publishing system is detrimental to the pursuit of knowledge and needs a radical shift. Publishers have already anticipated new trends and have tried to protect their profits.

A view of the Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh. Photo: Arif Siddiqui/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 This article is the first of a two-part series that examines India’s plans for over two dozen mega ...