Why are electric scooters, mopeds and rickshaws booming?
How electric two-wheelers are taking over in India...and helping the climate
Science + Environment
In India, what wreaks more havoc than floods and heat? Lightning.
India is often at the front lines of climate change, but one of the largest natural threats gets the least attention.
India Plans to Change the Weather to Fight Back Against Deadly Smog
India’s capital, New Delhi, is preparing a new weapon in the fight against deadly air pollution: cloud seeding. The experiment, which could take place as early as next week, would introduce chemicals like silver iodide into a cloudy sky to create rain and, it’s hoped, wash away the fine particulate matter hovering over one of the world’s largest cities.
The need is desperate. Delhi has already tried traffic restriction measures, multimillion-dollar air filtration towers, and the use of fleets o
The need is desperate. Delhi has already tried traffic restriction measures, multimillion-dollar air filtration towers, and the use of fleets o
Heat Waves Are Unleashing a Deadly but Overlooked Pollutant
Indian cities, afflicted by rising temperatures and poor air quality, are becoming hot spots of ozone pollution, which has proven a difficult problem to fix.
Why are India’s lions increasingly swapping the jungle for the beach?
The last of the world’s Asiatic lions live in Gujarat state, but as the apex predators outgrow their forest reserve, they are moving to the seaside
This greenhouse innovation helps farmers in India cope with climate change
The “greenhouse-in-a-box” is part of a solution designed to help smallholder farmers cope a changing climate.
India’s 5 million stray cows are sacred—and a growing nuisance
Stray cattle—most of them abandoned males—are rampant throughout India, where they can't legally be killed.
The brothers helping heal Delhi's most-hated birds
The sight of black kites, a carnivorous raptor, circling over garbage dumps in Delhi fills most people with disgust. But not Nadeem Shehzad and Muhammad Saud. Since coming across an injured kite bird two decades ago, they've been nursing them back to health in their small home. Sushmita Pathak visited their bird clinic and reports.
Flower power: making use of India's flood of flower waste —Living Planet – DW
Audio documentary about how some Indians are giving dead flowers a new life. The segment starts at 1:30
The vegan leather made from India’s waste flowers
An Indian start-up has found an unusual use for the tonnes of flowers which clog the Ganges: turning them into vegan leather.
What the world’s largest liquid mirror telescope means for astronomy
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope, perched high in the Himalayas, has finally started making observations. If it succeeds, we could one day put a much larger liquid telescope on the moon
The Address of the Future
In India, a new way of identifying where people live is changing the lives of thousands whose homes never officially existed.
Extreme heat in India spurred by rapid climate change
As climate change exacerbates heat waves in South Asia, its poorest bear the brunt
The Rocky Road to Saving Hyderabad's Stunning Geology
As the city expands into a global IT hub, a small but dedicated group fights to protect its ancient landscape.
A 15-year-old girl invented a solar ironing cart that's winning global respect
Vinisha Umashankar was returning to her home in southern India from school a few years ago when she saw a man throwing away burnt charcoal on the side of the street.
He was an ironing vendor who pressed people's clothes for a living – and his main appliance was an old-fashioned iron box, which he filled with hot charcoal that emitted a cloud of smoke. Umashankar counted at least six such vendors in her neighborhood in the temple town of Tiruvannamalai alone. She started thinking about how this
He was an ironing vendor who pressed people's clothes for a living – and his main appliance was an old-fashioned iron box, which he filled with hot charcoal that emitted a cloud of smoke. Umashankar counted at least six such vendors in her neighborhood in the temple town of Tiruvannamalai alone. She started thinking about how this
A Botanist's Quest To Help India Grow Its Most Popular Herb
Hing is a staple of Indian cuisine, but it's always been imported. Finally, farmers in India's dry Himalayan valleys are trying to grow it.
Residents Of Indian Capital Sound Alarms About Air Pollution Amid Diwali And Pandemic
Residents Of Indian Capital Sound Alarms About Air Pollution Amid Diwali And Pandemic
New Delhi has some of the dirtiest air in the world, and smog is complicating COVID-19 cases. The upcoming sparkler-filled holiday of Diwali is expected to make air quality even worse.
India's capital has some of the dirtiest air in the world. During the coronavirus lockdown this year, skies turned blue. But with the lockdown now lifted, the smog has returned, and it's complicating COVID cases. And as NPR's I
New Delhi has some of the dirtiest air in the world, and smog is complicating COVID-19 cases. The upcoming sparkler-filled holiday of Diwali is expected to make air quality even worse.
India's capital has some of the dirtiest air in the world. During the coronavirus lockdown this year, skies turned blue. But with the lockdown now lifted, the smog has returned, and it's complicating COVID cases. And as NPR's I
Floods Put Residents And Vulnerable Wildlife At Risk In India's Assam
Floods Put Residents And Vulnerable Wildlife At Risk In India's Assam
Heavy rains lashing India's northeastern state of Assam have triggered severe flooding and landslides, killing at least 80 people. More than a million people have been moved to relief centers. Thousands of villages are underwater as authorities try to rescue people — and animals. Large swaths of a national park, home to a number of rare species, are submerged.
As much as 95% of Kaziranga National Park may be underwater, Indi
Heavy rains lashing India's northeastern state of Assam have triggered severe flooding and landslides, killing at least 80 people. More than a million people have been moved to relief centers. Thousands of villages are underwater as authorities try to rescue people — and animals. Large swaths of a national park, home to a number of rare species, are submerged.
As much as 95% of Kaziranga National Park may be underwater, Indi
COVID-19 Is Mucking Up Mumbai's Plans To Prepare For Monsoon Season
COVID-19 Is Mucking Up Mumbai's Plans To Prepare For Monsoon Season
The narrow lanes inside the slum in east Mumbai where Swati Patil lives flood every year during the monsoon season of July and August.
"Even if it rains for half an hour, we have waterlogging," says Patil, 46.
Homes remain inundated for days and many people pile all their belongings on beds floating in the water, she says. Mosquito-borne diseases like malaria dengue as well as water-borne diseases like typhoid and leptospiros
The narrow lanes inside the slum in east Mumbai where Swati Patil lives flood every year during the monsoon season of July and August.
"Even if it rains for half an hour, we have waterlogging," says Patil, 46.
Homes remain inundated for days and many people pile all their belongings on beds floating in the water, she says. Mosquito-borne diseases like malaria dengue as well as water-borne diseases like typhoid and leptospiros
Mangroves Help Fight The Effects Of Climate Change. So Why Is Mumbai Destroying Them?
"If the mangroves are saved, Mumbai will be saved."
This Week, 2,000 Children Ran A Race Through The Gray Smog Of Delhi
This Week, 2,000 Children Ran A Race Through The Gray Smog Of Delhi
For days, air quality monitoring stations across New Delhi have been flashing a dark red reading — severe — the worst of six categories. The level of tiny particulate matter in the air this week was more than nine times what's considered safe to breathe. The smog has forced the government to close schools for two days.
Health advisories issued by the Delhi government ask people to not go jogging or do any kind of outdoor exerc
For days, air quality monitoring stations across New Delhi have been flashing a dark red reading — severe — the worst of six categories. The level of tiny particulate matter in the air this week was more than nine times what's considered safe to breathe. The smog has forced the government to close schools for two days.
Health advisories issued by the Delhi government ask people to not go jogging or do any kind of outdoor exerc
In India, Sewer Cleaning Is A Deadly Job. Can Robots Help?
In India, people still climb into sewers to clean them and dozens die doing it each year. Can robots help?
