Journalism in India has evolved remarkably in the last two decades and this has placed increasing demands on news organizations to do more with less in a rapidly evolving news environment. This has thrown up an entirely different lot of challenges and we are only just beginning to understand what this means for in-depth science and environmental reporting. Especially so in the new media world where a parallel shift to online news consumption has forced news organizations to reassign specialty science reporters to a general assignment or eliminate the science desk completely. These dramatic shifts in the news industry have had a severe impact on science reporting and audiences` consumption of science. Lack of in-depth reporting on science and environment has left a complete lacuna at a critical juncture where the globe is dealing with fast advancements in science on the one hand and climate change on the environment front. This whole week and the last, when Delhi-NCR was grappling with the pollution and smog situation, very few journalists went deeply into the problem. I saw scant reports on this issue in print and practically nothing well-researched on 24-hour television channels.