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Bee colonies are being installed alongside buckwheat fields in Ladakh, where scientists are testing how the crop can support beekeeping and provide farmers with an additional income. Image by Faizan Ahmed.

Buckwheat draws renewed interest for its health benefits and resilience

Hirra Azmat 29 Jan 2026
A village head gazes into a dry well near sugarcane fields damaged by a drought in Beed district, Maharashtra. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

What India risks by dismantling its rural safety net [Commentary]

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 28 Jan 2026
A farmer at work. India needs a hybrid approach that combines top-down policy direction with bottom-up feedback mechanisms. Image via Public Domain.

Reimagining agricultural governance in the climate change era [Commentary]

Pradyot Ranjan Jena, Nikitha Ashok 26 Jan 2026
Farmers display their pearl millet crop. Representative image by ICRISAT via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Diversifying beyond rice to cut losses and improve alternative cereal yields

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 1 Dec 2025

The Green Credits Programme needs to move beyond its tree-centric approach [Commentary]

Gautam Aredath 23 Oct 2025
An artisan weaves a hand-tufted carpet in Bhadohi. Image by Aslam Mahboob.

U.S. tariffs set to threaten India’s traditional craft revival

Shweta Thakur Nanda 26 Sep 2025
Mithuns in Roing in Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh. Image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

Conflicted over attacks on mithuns, experts gun for hunting ban

Kasturi Das 9 Sep 2025

Green credit rules tweaked to favour canopy cover, remove trade provision

Simrin Sirur 4 Sep 2025
An aerial view of fishing activities at Thangassery, Kollam, Kerala. The fisheries sector employs more than 2.5 crore fisherfolk and fish farmers in India. Image by Arunvrparavur via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

What is blue economy? [Explainer]

Phalguni Ranjan 8 Apr 2025

Miners trapped as a rat-hole coal mine floods

Nabarun Guha 20 Jan 2025

When heat rises, incomes fall for the informal workforce

T. V. Padma 3 Jan 2025
One of two locomotives ordered by the Indian Iron & Steel Company in 1923. India's high carbon emissions and export reliance on the EU for steel and iron leave it highly exposed to CBAM's impact. Image by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums via flickr.

Indian steel exports could take a beating as EU fences its carbon borders

Kundan Pandey 26 Dec 2024

Editor’s Review 2024: The year when greenbacks failed green talks

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 18 Dec 2024

Green credit scheme rolls out with oil and coal leading the way

Simrin Sirur 17 Dec 2024

How flood protection structures heighten flood vulnerability

Simrin Sirur 29 Nov 2024

Loss and damage funding languishes as costs of climate disasters multiply

Soumya Sarkar 22 Nov 2024

Delivering a trillion dollars in climate finance is doable, experts say

Simrin Sirur 22 Nov 2024

[Commentary] Conserving old ways in a new world

Arathi Menon 2 Oct 2024
An electric scooter manufacturing unit in India. With rapid growth, urbanisation, and environmental challenges such as air and water pollution, India’s green technology market is attracting major international interest. Image by Gnoeee via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Amid the global green goods boom, India is yet to jump on the bandwagon

Kundan Pandey 20 Sep 2024

[Book review] Chronicle of an ‘ecocide’ foretold

T. R. Shankar Raman 19 Aug 2024