As trees disappear and concrete expands, India's urban heat crisis is costing billions—but Tier 2 cities still have time to ...

We looked at studies that analysed data from nine cities spanning up to five decades. The images reveal three patterns: extreme sprawl that replaced natural landscapes with concrete, the paradox of ...

Gautam Menon, professor at Ashoka University, and his team modeled a potential H5N1 spillover in a poultry district. Their ...

Priyanka Thirumurthy is an award-winning multimedia journalist with a focus on the impact of climate change and excessive ...

“ [M]ore than 90% birth or death events are getting registered”, according to a March 2025 circular by the Registrar General of India. This means, about 2.8 million births—more than the population of ...

From protests against air pollution in the national capital region to protests to save the trees in Nashik’s Tapovan, and ...

Chasing Methane: Emission Spikes is IndiaSpend’s latest effort to bridge this data gap. The dashboard, developed in collaboration with Respirer Living Sciences, aims to track and identify high ...

New Delhi: Jalaluddin Kazi*, 38, lives with bipolar disorder and often has seizures. A resident of North Dumdum near Kolkata, he drove a rented electric rickshaw to support his wife and two children, ...

Many urban local bodies (ULBs) in India collect residential and commercial waste door-to-door, and transfer it directly to Material Recovery Facilities, a solution to the problem of ever-mounting ...

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) provide large employment opportunities at lower capital cost than large industries, but this sector is plagued by low levels of registration. As per the ...

"They should not have gone that day," said frail Usha Devi, Preeti and Poonam's mother. "They were worried about losing their jobs if they did not go." Since the tragedy, her husband Mahipal and ...

Ernakulam and Bengaluru: Kartik Naik is in his 40s, and works as a mason’s helper in the Nettoor area, in Kerala’s Ernakulam, where mostly Odia male migrant labourers reside. As polling for his ...