Seeking a second home for Manipur’s dancing deer
Is time running out for the 260-odd endangered sangai deer which have their only home Manipur? The sangai or the Indian Eld’s deer (Rucervus eldii eldii) resides as an isolated single…
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Environment ministry expert committee defers EC decision on Dahej power plant
An expert panel of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has deferred recommending an extension of the environment clearance (EC) given to an upcoming 2,640 MW imported…
Keeping the faith in conservation
Can science and faith cooperate for conservation biology? The prevailing and dominant notion is that science and faith are two distinct units that do not and cannot have a common…
Decline in forest fires in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve indicates management effectiveness
Since the development of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in the Western Ghats in 1986 — the first such reserve to have been established in India — active measures have been…
Darjeeling Himalayas gets a people-centric early warning system for landslides
In landslide-prone Giddapahar, a small hamlet nestled in the Darjeeling Himalayas known for its fragrant black tea, Bikash Thapa has become his community’s very own rain man. Aided by his…
CWC report on Kerala floods: Dams not to be blamed
Dams are often blamed for worsening the impact of floods. But this time, when Kerala witnessed one of the worst floods in its history, dams are not in the line…
Microbe-based monitoring to conserve Sundarbans
They may be microscopic in size, but bacterioplankton steer major carbon cycling and food webs in aquatic ecosystems. Bacterioplankton are the bacterial component of plankton that live in water bodies,…
A lost desi cotton heritage
In a region where Bt cotton rules the roost, Kamal Kishore Dhiran, a farmer in Balodi, 50 km from Yavatmal (in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra) is an outlier. He has…
Can environment education save our planet?
What started off as a holiday in the Andamans for educators Supriya Singh and Katarina Roncevic, has turned into a two-country project to train teachers, students and parents on global…
A drying Ganga could stall food security and prevent achieving SDGs
Millions of people residing in the lower reaches of the Ganga basin in India may face food shortage in the next three decades, if the iconic river continues to lose…
