The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in its country profile for India notes that though the country's landmass covers only 2.4% of the world's land area, it packs…
The 1960s were the years of severe food grain shortage in India. The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, inquired if technical solutions were available anywhere in the world to increase…
In 1819, the British collector of Coimbatore, John Sullivan, was attracted by the Nilgiris mountains that he saw in his jurisdiction. Sullivan even built a home for his family, in…
Said to be the three pillars of Indian democracy -- the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary, have maintained a calibrated balance since the Independence. However, the economic reforms initiated…
In the Garhwal Himalayas, women hugged trees as part of the Chipko movement to protect them from being cut down. Environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna staged long fasts along the Bhagirathi river…
In 1991, India initiated economic reforms to combat a severe financial crisis and it was a milestone year for economic growth in the country. The then government opened up markets…
It was a time like what we had never faced earlier in our lifetimes. Today we are back living as if the COVID-19 pandemic never happened. Lost in between is…
The international climate change negotiations are built on a wrong economic construct, according to eminent environmental economist Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University…
Last week I was in a group travelling in the Himalayas. Starting from the plains of Punjab, we travelled by road to an altitude of above 11,000 feet, to Chitkul,…
Eminent agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan breathed his last on September 28. He had celebrated his 98th birthday on August 7. Swaminathan had been keeping indifferent health for the past few…
When I joined The Hindu Business Line newspaper as a young reporter in 1993, I was given environment as my beat of choice. We, the lowest in the food chain,…
For any government the first budget and the last one before the elections are important milestones. While the first one gives the initial indication as to how the government plans…
After two years of fear, illness, deaths and economic loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022 was a year that brought rays of sunshine. When India, like the rest of…
Opening the courier packet, I was disappointed with how slim the latest book from Amitav Ghosh, The Living Mountain: A Fable of our Times, was. At 35 pages, it was…
This summer it will be thirty years since the Rio Earth Summit. Unlike the earlier decadal anniversaries, this year the United Nations is not celebrating an event to mark the…
On the face of it, the Union Budget for 2022-23 presented by India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1, may seem an environment-friendly one. For the first time in…
The year 2021 was one of swinging national sentiment in India. The year started with a misplaced optimism that India had overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, even while many other countries…
On Monday, the Indian government referred the Biological Diversity Act Amendment Bill (2021) to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC). The Bill was developed to amend certain provisions of the Biological…
There are heavy rains in the south Indian city of Chennai and the metropolis has flooded, bringing back memories of the of December 2015 floods. Mongabay-India talked with Jayshree Vencatesan,…
The wait for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is almost over, with the report scheduled to be released on August 9. The…