Highlights from the issue

Sunita Narain's Desk: Pollution control needs action

Graded Response was an emergency action; not a substitute for action to reduce air pollution. Today it has become an excuse not to act

Cover story: Intimate takeover

By all indications, rainfall in India is no longer being driven primarily by the monsoon winds, but by low-pressure systems that persist for longer. More of these systems are intensifying into depressions and, in some cases, cyclonic
storms, bringing heavier and more destructive bursts of rain

Special report: Haunted trails

Decades after industrial dumping began, chromium continues to poison water, soil and lives across Uttar Pradesh villages

Appraisal: Disrupted rhythms 

How climate change has adversely affected the pastoral-nomadic way of life across the Himalayas

Special report: Writing on the wall

Efforts to make Gadchiroli a hub of mining and steel industry could have serious environmental and health costs

Special report: Here’s the catch

Warming seas, changing freshwater flows and rising costs leave fishers struggling

Special report: Solar enters the farm

Renewable energy is helping farmers irrigate fields and women’s groups process more produce in rural Odisha

First take: Food warfare

Food is not just a victim of wars and conflicts. As ongoing crises show, it is being used as a weapon

Interview: ‘State of one planetary boundary critical in India, South Asia’

Climate scientist Levke Caesar on the latest “Planetary Health Check” report and the state of the world's nine planetary boundaries

Opinion: Beyond the doctor’s visit

Why where a woman lives still shapes the quality of maternal care in India

Food: Out of the wild

Scientists in Himachal Pradesh develop ways to cultivate and easily harvest a forest delicacy

Patently Absurd: India’s innovation quagmire 

While government goads the reluctant corporate sector to hike R&D investments, its own flagship scheme to boost innovation is faltering

Civil Lines: Escape from pandemic’s grip

The world is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic’s health burden, but it may not be an easy escape