Mumbai: Contrary to perception that Mumbai’s coastal environment shields it from the worst of air pollution, a new study has indicated...

Despite having no control over supply-chain waste, Indian households discard 67% of their food. Poor planning, cultural habits, and...

Mumbai: While the current heat wave has led to a sudden rise in maximum temperature at most of the hill stations across Maharashtra,...

Heat wave raises temperatures across all hill stations in the state. Mumbai:  The hill stations in Maharashtra are no  longer  “cool”...

Chaitra, the first month of the Hindu calendar, falls between March and April. It marks the arrival of spring in India. The season brings...

In the mid-1960s, long before climate change was a topic that could fill out a political manifesto or launch a thousand think pieces,...

Every discarded meal wastes more than just food—it wastes water, energy, and land. Hello readers, In my last article, I introduced the...

Wasting food is not just about hunger and starving people — it is about wasted water, energy, and effort. Hello readers, People love food...

Water scarcity is no longer just an environmental challenge but a geopolitical fault line demanding urgent cooperation.

The Aravalli mountain range, stretching over 700 kilometres across northwestern India, has long stood as a natural bulwark against the...

The Mahayuti government’s grand expressway vision faces the twin spectres of farmer unrest and electoral peril.

Hello readers, The part of Thane city where I live has a beautiful, much wider, well constructed road that runs straight about one...

Hello readers, In my last article, I had given a brief introduction of earthworms and their ability to eject highly nutriotious excreta...

“Worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, perforating and loosening the soil, rendering it pervious to rains and fibers of the...

Once a veritable pensioner’s paradise, Pune has regressed into a decaying metropolis gasping under the weight of its own progress. It is...

In my last week’s article, I had given a brief account of some of the activities of NGO Paryavaran Dakshata Mandal and about the green...

Dear Readers, hopefully you have now prepared yourself to segregate your household waste into ‘wet’ or ‘biodegradable’ and ‘dry’ or...

From my last week’s article, you must have understood what to expect while your compost is on the way to maturity or already matured. So...

In my last week’s article, I had mentioned that fully ‘matured’ biocompost in your compost bin becomes a well-developed natural ecosystem...

Last week we tried to understand what kind of biodegradable waste ….oh..wait a minute! Shouldn’t we call it as a ‘raw material’ rather...