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Professor Subimal Ghosh and his team from IIT-B have come up with a technique that can forecast extreme rainfall events at a regional scale.

Professor Sudhakar Rao and his team from IISc, Bengaluru, have designed twin-pit toilets that release treated leachate into the soil beneath the pit.

IISC’s new gas sensor monitors air pollution by quantifying gaseous pollutants like carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide & sulphur dioxide.

With no official tree census in place, Project Vruksha and Gubbi Labs are leveraging data and crowdsourcing to build tree maps of Bengaluru.

FactorDaily travelled to Pheyang village in Leh to meet Sonam Wangchuk, who is making artificial glaciers or ‘Ice Stupas’ to ward off the water crisis.

Hemp is a miracle crop that can provide for all basic needs, says Bombay Hemp Company, which is about to launch an e-store focused on hemp products.

Scientists from IISc Bangalore have hatched a three-year UAV seed-bombing plan, with a goal to turn inaccessible areas into forests.

In a study published in ‘Lancet’, researchers found that minor changes in the Indian diet, such as adding about 30gm of red meat per day, or cutting 10gm of poultry, could bring down blue water consumption enough to stave off a shortage in 2050.

I’m walking through a frenzied beehive of activity on a dry March afternoon. Around me is a blur of motion …