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An all-women’s team led by Saraswathi Murthy makes chocolates at Mason & Co. in Auroville, Puducherry. Saraswathi who leads the women in the factory, was first spotted by founders Jane Mason and Fabien Bontems and trained by them in 2013. Photo courtesy Mason & Co.

The sweet taste of low-waste, sustainable chocolates

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 13 Apr 2021

Community restores grasslands in Lamkani, making the village drought-resilient

Vinaya Kurtkoti 8 Apr 2021

A new digital soil map for India could help use soil optimally

Manupriya 5 Apr 2021
Rucervus eldii eldii

Threatened sangai deer’s habitat likely to shrink due to climate change

Roopak Goswami 2 Apr 2021
Women in a rice field in India (Tamil Nadu). Achievements of global goals on health, water, sanitation and matters of gender equality and their anticipated impacts on forests remain poorly researched. Photo by Deepak Kumar/Unsplash.

Study finds some UN SDGs could damage forests, some others may be beneficial

Sahana Ghosh 31 Mar 2021

Using fossil fuel as a cash cow: A big obstacle in India’s energy transition

Kundan Pandey 31 Mar 2021

How did a once water-rich village in Goa become entirely dependent on tankers?

Supriya Vohra 30 Mar 2021

Stakeholders raise concerns on the new vehicle scrapping policy

Rohin Kumar 29 Mar 2021

[Commentary] India’s transition to green energy is an opportunity to get it right

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 26 Mar 2021
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 and Mayank Aggarwal 24 Mar 2021

India’s push for more coal to increase its methane emissions

Mayank Aggarwal 23 Mar 2021
A view of Thiruvannamalai, an ancient hill in southern India.

[Interview] Nicolas Salazar Sutil: placing trees and indigenous knowledge at the centre of future healing

Meena Menon 22 Mar 2021
Menstruators are switching to reusable cloth sanitary napkins to make menstruation comfortable.

[Explainer] What is sustainable menstruation and how can it help tackle menstrual waste?

Snigdha Nalini Oreya 19 Mar 2021

Government eases public hearing rules for legacy mining cases

Mayank Aggarwal 19 Mar 2021

[Commentary] Smart implementation of budget funds could support green, sustainable recovery

Madhu Verma and Aman Srivastava 18 Mar 2021

Avian flu in India brings forth environmental, animal and human health linkages

Sahana Ghosh 17 Mar 2021

Solar projects on water could come at a cost to the environment, alert experts

Garima Prasher 12 Mar 2021

[Video] A wagtail on shared space, birdwatching and hope

Kartik Chandramouli, Taarini Ravjit 12 Mar 2021
A snow leopard captured by a camera trap in the Western Himalaya. Photo by Rishi Kumar Sharma/NCF/HPFD

[Commentary] Estimating population of world’s snow leopards

Rishi K. Sharma 11 Mar 2021

No honey, no hives, but solitary bees have important lives

Arati Kumar-Rao 8 Mar 2021