Waste-to-energy takes different forms across India, depending on the available waste and community needs. A vegetable market in Hyderabad lights its own streetlights with rotten vegetables. In Prayagraj, a multi-feedstock bio-CNG plant converts different types of organic waste into clean fuel and compost. An educational institution in Gandhinagar cooks for more than 500 people a day without depending on LPG cylinders. A gaushala in Gwalior turns cow dung into compressed biogas.

Wealthy individuals are more likely to invest in solutions that protect only themselves from climate change, increasing wealth inequality and leaving poorer individuals vulnerable to climate risks, finds a new study involving Corvinus University of Budapest.

Moth bean, one of the most important pulse crops of the hot arid regions of western Rajasthan, is cultivated over nearly 10 lakh hectares. However, its productivity remains low at around 350 kg per hectare, primarily due to low, erratic and uncertain rainfall of 150–250 mm, prolonged dry spells of 20–30 days and limited availability of soil moisture. Under such challenging conditions, the ability of a variety to withstand moisture stress, maintain growth and continue reproductive development is critical for sustaining crop production.

For decades, rural sanitation remained a persistent development concern nationwide. Sanitation coverage stood at 39 per cent when the Swachh Bharat Mission began in 2014. By 2019, rural India had achieved 100 per cent sanitation coverage.

A devastating flash flood and mudslide struck the Nepal-Tibet border on 26 August after a high-altitude glacier section collapsed. Part of a glacier broke away near 5,200 metres, generating an ice-rock avalanche that struck the Lhende River, the Bhotekoshi, in Nepal, roughly 20 kilometres northeast of the Rasuwagadhi-Gyirong border crossing. Debris temporarily dammed the river before releasing a powerful surge of water, mud and rock downstream.

India’s farms have sustained agricultural growth, but long-term productivity depends on healthy soils and resilient ecosystems. Regenerative agriculture offers a pathway to restore soil vitality, improve biodiversity, and strengthen resilience against climate stresses.

Fossil leaves recovered from a coalfield in the North East state of Assam have revealed that the Kevda plant, well known for the fragrant kewra essence, used in sweets, traditional medicine and also in temples, has survived in the Indian subcontinent for at least 24 million years and is a living survivor from India's ancient tropical forests.

June has come and gone. The calendar has turned another page, but the fields remain parched.

When did we stop fixing things? When did a loose wire become a death sentence? When did a cracked screen mean goodbye, not repair?

The sky has changed its colour. Blue has given way to a bruised purple. Smoke hangs like a curse over the Persian Gulf. War has paused, but its shadow has not. The guns may fall silent, but the air does not.