At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Galgotias University proudly unveiled “Orion” — a ‘homegrown’ AI breakthrough that turned out to be a ready-made robot you could simply buy online. Which raises a bigger question: if innovation can be downloaded, is research now just rebranding? And what does that mean for students trusting such institutions with their futures? Because tomorrow’s problem-solvers on environment need real labs, real learning,and real ideas — not shiny claims on borrowed machines.
Stories of Chipko, water warriors, indigenous movements, and scientists who shaped India’s unique environmentalism.
From shy forest dwellers to confident neighbours, Indian peafowl are learning to live alongside people
Explore how climate change is impacting India's biodiversity, agriculture, and daily lives—mirroring a global crisis that demands urgent action.
How do people get to work in India? People use all kinds of ways: walking, cycling, riding scooters and mopeds, driving cars and jeeps, taking autos, buses, taxis, metros, trains, and even tempos! Some people even work from home. The way people travel differs a lot between cities and villages. Here’s a surprise from The State of India in Figures 2025, released by the Centre for Science and Environment: More people walk to work in cities than in villages! In cities, 2.6 crore people walk to work, while in villages, it’s 1.8 crore.
धरती का हर मुद्दा जलवायु परिवर्तन से जुड़ा ********************************** बॉन कान्फ्रेंस 2017 की बात है। एलायंस आॅफ स्मॉल आईलैंड स्टेट्स (एओसिस) से जुड़े एक देश के बड़े नेता फूट-फूटकर रो रहे थे। एओसिस मतलब छोटे समुद्र द्वीपीय देशों का समूह। आसानी से समझने के लिए मा…
Food is happiness (and vice versa). We may never need an excuse to sink our teeth into a lip-smacking delicacy, but what food do we eat when we want to celebrate? What festivals do we celebrate as an excuse to savour the season’s first delights? What is the connection between the food we eat, the festivals we have, and our environment? In this day and age of food that is fast and largely unhealthy, do our festivals play a role in bringing to our plates food that is good? Let’s get a taste of it all, as we step into this festival season...
Understanding why we celebrate harvest festivals, what are their diversities, and how they connect us with our environment.
35 Indian cities have recently been listed among the 50 most polluted cities in the world. What's worse, 16 of these cities received nearly Rs 1,000 crore over the past eight years to tackle air pollution. This disturbing finding has placed India’s National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) under intense scrutiny. NCAP is the costliest air pollution control programme ever taken up in India, and one of the biggest globally. But it appears to be non-existent in 19 of the Indian cities that are part of the ‘most polluted’ top 50 list.
