India’s vast plastic empire sits in drains after the first rain, clings to riverbanks, travels with food deliveries, and returns as microplastic in soil and ...

Why tilling and mulching are dividing tobacco farmers and companies, and is there a sustainable middle ground? For farmers cultivating Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco, soil ...

India’s construction boom in the last decade has completely changed the way our cities look. Enthusiastic social media often film our cities and compare our ...

India’s leather industry is under growing pressure to reduce its dependence on chromium tanning. India is not alone. A 2021 study showed that nearly 85–90 ...

If there is one clear lesson for India from the latest crisis around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, it is this: a country cannot ...

Indian news outlets often show our farmers throwing food on the highway or selling their produce in a distress sale. Truckloads of onions or tomatoes ...

The Ghazipur landfill in Delhi now rises nearly as high as a seventeen-storey building. Trucks continue to unload waste at its base every day, even ...

For forty years, India has tried to clean the Ganga the way it builds highways, by funding big projects, awarding contracts, and measuring progress in ...