$57 billion. That's how much extreme heat costs women informal workers every year

India, June 26 -- Extreme heat is costing women informal workers an estimated $57 billion in lost earnings each year outside Europe and the US. Without urgent climate and urban policy interventions, ... Read More

Only 42 in 120 years: Why Venezuela's doublet earthquake stands out

India, June 26 -- Two major earthquakes struck northern Venezuela on 24 June 2026 just 39 seconds apart, in what seismologists call a doublet earthquake. The first quake, measuring magnitude 7.2, hit... Read More

Higher Body Mass Index (BMI) linked to 19 types of cancer, finds study

India, June 26 -- A large international study has strengthened the evidence that excess body weight can raise the risk of several types of cancer. Researchers reviewed decades of peer-reviewed literat... Read More

Conflict in the backyard: In Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris, forest corridors run through homes, estates and roads

India, June 26 -- In Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris, fatal tiger and elephant attacks have exposed how homes, tea estates, roads and wildlife corridors now overlap. The death of 51-year-old Nagiyammal near Mu... Read More

From right holders to beneficiaries: New handbook raises questions over India's changing welfare model

India, June 26 -- Azim Premji University's new handbook examines how India's welfare model is shifting from rights-based entitlements towards cash transfers, digital delivery and the language of "bene... Read More

In Delhi, the Yamuna gets polluted. In Bundelkhand, it is robbed of sand

India, June 26 -- The Yamuna, the Ganga's longest tributary, is largely polluted due to its course through the national capital. But many kilometres downstream, in one of India's most drought-prone re... Read More

At 3,000 ft, a tiny waterhole is helping elephants survive summer in a Chhattisgarh tiger reserve

India, June 25 -- A camera trap in Chhattisgarh's Udanti-Sitanadi Tiger Reserve has recorded elephants and calves using a small mountain Jhiriya waterhole at about 3,000ft. The reserve has developed ... Read More

Mangrove forests showing remarkable recovery worldwide, study finds

India, June 25 -- Global mangrove forests, long considered among the world's most threatened ecosystems, are showing an unexpected and encouraging recovery, according to a new study led by researchers... Read More

Conflict in the backyard: In Maharashtra's sugarcane belt, farmers wear spiked collars as leopard attacks rise

India, June 25 -- In Maharashtra's Junnar region, farmers in Pimperkhed have begun wearing metal-spiked dog collars while working in sugarcane fields after a series of leopard attacks. Three people w... Read More

What exactly happened at the NEEPCO colony in Arunachal? Investigations on as flash flood claims one life, with four disappearances

India, June 25 -- On June 24, the Poosa area of Arunachal Pradesh's Keyi Panyor district woke up to horror. A huge gush of water washed away houses of the NEEPCO (North Eastern Electric Power Corporat... Read More

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