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Red chequered road markings on a highway passing through forest area in Madhya Pradesh

Why Madhya Pradesh Is Painting Highways Red: How Chequered Roads Are Reducing Wildlife Deaths in India

Across India, animal-vehicle collisions have quietly become one of the most persistent threats to wildlife and road users. From national…...

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Read MoreWhy Madhya Pradesh Is Painting Highways Red: How Chequered Roads Are Reducing Wildlife Deaths in India
Dec 13, 20255 min read
Satellite imagery capturing the ash plume from the Hayli Gubbi volcano eruption in Ethiopia after 12,000 years, drifting across the Red Sea toward India. The high-altitude ash cloud entered Indian airspace over Gujarat and Delhi-NCR, posing risks to aviation but showing no measurable impact on surface-level air quality or Delhi’s AQI levels.

Delhi Air Pollution and Ethiopian Volcanic Eruption: Will Hayli Gubbi Ash Worsen India’s Air Quality Crisis? (2025)

On 23 November 2025, Ethiopia’s long-silent Hayli Gubbi volcano erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending an…...

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Read MoreDelhi Air Pollution and Ethiopian Volcanic Eruption: Will Hayli Gubbi Ash Worsen India’s Air Quality Crisis? (2025)
Nov 25, 202514 min read
Diagram showing ocean plastic (fishing nets) and automotive PA-66 waste being processed in a lab and transformed into high-performance civil infrastructure products, including a blue bench, gray pavement tiles, and an orange road barrier.

How IISc is Turning Ocean Plastic Waste into High-Performance Nylon (Nylon-66) for a Sustainable Future

Plastic pollution remains one of the most urgent environmental challenges of our time. Every year, over 400 million tones of…...

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Read MoreHow IISc is Turning Ocean Plastic Waste into High-Performance Nylon (Nylon-66) for a Sustainable Future
Oct 23, 20255 min read