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[Explainer] What is the Sixth Schedule? Why is Ladakh demanding to be brought under it?

Kundan Pandey 17 May 2024

Ruza, a traditional water harvesting system for the water-scarce mountains

Barasha Das 11 Aug 2023

[Commentary] What does the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act mean for northeast India?

Pia Sethi 9 Aug 2023
Conducting fieldwork in Fakim Community Reserve with a local resident Alemba. Photo from Joli Rumi Borah.

[Interview] Conservation scientist Joli Rumi Borah on integrating traditional knowledge in research

Sahana Ghosh 13 Apr 2023

Nagaland’s first bird count event spells hope for bird and wildlife documentation in the state

Lutsuhlu Swuro 10 Jan 2023
Image shows a twig with two leaves with greenery in the background against an open sky

Reconstructing 90-year-long rainfall history in northeast India using tea garden records

Sahana Ghosh 7 Sep 2022

[Commentary] Responding to ecological imbalance: Tokugha’s journey in conservation

Chitra Sangtani 28 Jan 2022

Two young women in Nagaland are leading a crusade against e-waste

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 14 Jun 2021
Indian grassroots conservationist Nuklu Phom is one of the six Whitley Award winners, 2021. Photo from Nuklu Phom.

Indian “Green Oscar” winner Nuklu Phom envisions a Biodiversity Peace Corridor

Sahana Ghosh 24 May 2021

The rolling ashes from Dzukou hills write back

Rini Barman 19 Feb 2021
Aerial views of Brahmaputra river. Photo by Ashwin Kumar/Wikimedia commons.

Ancient tree rings shed light on Brahmaputra’s flood risk

Sahana Ghosh 14 Jan 2021
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
Gwasinlo Thong, chairperson of the reserve committee in front of the Nsonji Lake, Sendenyu Community Biodiversity Reserve. Photo from Sendenyu Community Biodiversity and Wildlife Reserve.

A community in Nagaland strives to sustain wildlife protection amid fresh challenges

Sahana Ghosh 27 Oct 2020

Why do indigenous communities persist with practising shifting cultivation?

Aimee Gabay 22 Jun 2020

Conservation biologists navigate the new normal

Sahana Ghosh 29 Apr 2020
A participant at Green Hub's video fellowship

[Video] Youth of northeast India use films to tell stories about their environment and communities

Pooja Gupta 18 Jul 2019

Lack of alternative livelihood linked to Nagaland tribe’s affinity to shifting cultivation

Sahana Ghosh 1 Jul 2019

As fall armyworm invades northeast India, scientists scratch the surface of a tree-killing beetle

Sahana Ghosh 27 May 2019

Assam most vulnerable to climate change in Indian Himalayan region: study

Mayank Aggarwal 21 Dec 2018

Satellite-tagged Amur falcon killed in Manipur

Sahana Ghosh 15 Nov 2018