Priyanka Shankar

“There is the blazing sun above and scorched earth beneath us,” laments 28-year-old Yelamma while sitting under a tree outside her tarpaulin and tin hut in Hyderabad, Telangana. Telangana has been experiencing a steady rise in temperature, from 38 degrees Celsius in February 2024 to 44 degrees Celsius in earlier in April. Yelamma lives in […]

‘When all the money the politicians promise reaches our bank accounts, that’s when I will believe them,’ she says.

In Vadhavan village, located in the Dahanu taluka of Maharashtra, the inter-tidal zone stretches over five square kilometres, interspersed with rocks and small pools dense with green marine algae or ulva and patches of soft maroon and bluish corals. Mangroves too form a border along the beach. In 2022, researchers identified 98.3 acres of mangroves […]

Technologies to cool, sort and preserve produce could go a long way in cutting down on wastage.

An MP from party allied with Prime Minister Modi’s BJP in Karnataka State is at the centre of sexual abuse allegations.

Udaiveer Singh has been running a tender coconut stall in Nangal, a city in Punjab, for six years now. He buys 1,200 coconut pieces every six days from an agent in Jalandhar, who, in turn, gets his supplies from Karnataka. “Initially, people would consume tender coconut water only during summers. So, I sold fruit juice […]

In September 2023, Rajesh Krishnan, farmer and CEO of the Thirunelly Agri Producer Company Ltd. in Wayanad, Kerala, noticed something strange in the region’s paddy crops. The crops began displaying onion-like shoots, leaving Krishnan and the other members of the FPO (farmer producer organisation) flummoxed by the unknown occurrence. “By the time we realised that […]

A comprehensive study has documented roosting colonies of the Indian flying fox, a bat species, and the characteristics of roost trees in Kurukshetra district of Haryana. As these large bats are highly selective about where they roost, understanding their roost site selection is the first step towards their long-term conservation. Fruit bats are vital for […]

In a breakthrough in saltwater crocodile conservation in Bangladesh, the country has started using a satellite tagging system to monitor the species' movements, habits, and life span in the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh. This is perhaps the first time this has been done in Asia.

On a summer afternoon in 2017, field entomologist Vivek Sarkar and his field assistant Tushar Sangma, struggled to manoeuvre their motorbike on a dirt track as the mud squelched beneath the tires. They were in the Balpakram National Park in South Garo Hills, Meghalaya, to study cicadas, as a part of Sarkar’s Ph.D. fieldwork at […]