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Himalayan salamander conservationist wins award for grassroots protection of the amphibian

Arathi Menon 30 Apr 2026

Indian skimmer conservationist wins award for community conservation model

Aditi Tandon 30 Apr 2026
Sonam Wangchuk addresses a gathering at a protest demanding statehood and other democratic rights for Ladakh in New Delhi on February 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Protests for Indigenous land rights turn deadly

Simrin Sirur 2 Oct 2025
Geeta Kini, a jamun cultivator, holds an umbrella to protect the produce from heavy rainfall. She says that previously, at least 50 women would sell jamuns by the roads. This year, there were very few of them, owing to a huge loss of jamuns, according to her. Image by Rushikesh More.

Stories no longer lost in translation

Saumitra Shinde 13 May 2025
Kallur Balan: The Man Who Planted a Forest

[Obituary] Kallur Balan: The man who planted a forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Feb 2025

[Interview] Ramachandra Guha on the pioneers of Indian environmentalism

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 28 Nov 2024
Joyeeta Gupta speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Photo by World Economic Forum - Jakob Polacsek/ Flickr.

[Interview] Joyeeta Gupta: The Indian voice for environmental justice at global platforms

Arathi Menon 27 Jul 2023
Barasingha stags in Kanha National Park. Photo by Kandukuru Nagarjun/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Commentary] India’s wildlife conservation journey has had great strides and many hurdles

Usha Rai 28 Sep 2022

[Obituary] Sunderlal Bahuguna: End of an era for Indian environmentalism

Hridayesh Joshi 27 May 2021

World Wetlands Day: Celebrating the champions who protect our wetlands

Aditi Tandon 29 Jan 2021

[Book review] Indian environmental history for young adults

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 19 Jan 2021

[Obituary] Poet Sugathakumari: She gave voice to the Silent Valley

K.A. Shaji 4 Jan 2021

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

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 29 Dec 2020

[Video] In conversation with Rahul Ram: Exploring the confluence of music and environment

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 16 Oct 2020

[Interview] Green economics is robust enough for policy makers to assess impact of their decisions: Pavan Sukhdev

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 4 Feb 2020

A dose of eco-optimism: Stories of hope and inspiration in 2019

Aditi Tandon 31 Dec 2019

[Obituary] India loses its pioneering environment journalist

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 19 Mar 2019

Mumbai sighting of Olive Ridley hatchlings may not be as rare as imagined

Darryl D'Monte 26 Mar 2018

Silent Valley: A controversy that focused global attention on a rainforest 40 years ago

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 1 Feb 2018