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India’s growing demand for palm oil is linked to large scale deforestation for oil palm agriculture in Indonesia and Malaysia.

As India eyes domestic palm oil growth environmental concerns take a backseat

Kundan Pandey, Mayank Aggarwal 24 Mar 2021

Attappady residents fear more restrictions with eco-sensitive areas and zones

Nimisha S. Pradeep 17 Mar 2021

Why trout farmers in Himachal Pradesh are exiting the business

Sidharth Singh 10 Mar 2021
Agriculture in the Western Ghats. Photo by Jenny Mackness/Flickr.

Cropland takes up 6% of global protected areas: study

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Mar 2021

Land use changes are driving Himalayan forest bird loss

T. V. Padma 1 Mar 2021

Grassland burning, clearing imperils birds of Brahmaputra’s river islands

Chandrani Sinha 22 Feb 2021
Lashar in Lachen valley, Sikkim. Photo by Tenzing Ingty.

Livestock grazing in eastern Himalayan pastures enhances biodiversity and productivity: Study

Neha Jain 19 Feb 2021

Septuagenarian ensures Kole’s wetland status remains intact through farming

Manjula Nair 17 Feb 2021

Flash droughts set to increase in India, finds study

Deepa Padmanabhan 16 Feb 2021

[Commentary] Is the Budget’s infrastructure push green?

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 5 Feb 2021
Azadpur Mandi

GrAMs: Market access scheme for farmers still weighed down after three years

Kundan Pandey 28 Jan 2021
Baya weaver with nest male and female birds. Photo by Fareedz/Wikimedia Commons.

Precarious lives of the wild inside home gardens in northeast India

Rini Barman, Sahana Ghosh 25 Jan 2021

[Book review] Indian environmental history for young adults

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 19 Jan 2021
Large herds of nilgai can cause considerable damage to crops. Photo by Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi.

[Commentary] Antelopes in my backyard

Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi 19 Jan 2021

Climate adaptive and saline water-resistant Pokkali rice could be the variety of the future

K.A. Shaji 15 Jan 2021

Editor’s review of 2020: Virus, controversies, wildlife, transitions and wetlands

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 29 Dec 2020
Angami Naga tribe innovated the Alder coppicing system by retaining and pollarding nitrogen fixing Alder trees that facilitates fallow regrowth in Khonoma village, Nagaland. Photo by Joli R. Borah.

Building up carbon sinks in northeast India’s shifting cultivation landscape

Sahana Ghosh 25 Dec 2020

Goa’s iron ore mining stuck at a crossroad

Supriya Vohra 22 Dec 2020

[Commentary] Conflicts – historical perspectives and present day dilemma

Mathen Rajeev Mathew 15 Dec 2020

Bauxite mining threatens India’s lone wolf sanctuary and an interstate river

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 9 Dec 2020