Irrigation linked to reduced rainfall in northern India
India remains one of the most highly irrigated regions in the world. Although the rise in irrigation over the decades has boosted crop productivity, it has also caused the depletion…
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The Sundarbans: frontlines of climate change for tigers and people
The Indian part of the Sundarbans, the vast mangrove forest in the Bay of Bengal, consists of 102 islands, about half of them inhabited. That may not be the case…
Your Environment This Week: Future green crusaders, land use change in Jammu & Kashmir, new termites
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. To receive a weekly email with a roundup of our stories, please sign-up for our newsletter. The curious case of India’s…
India needs greater capital and energy to attain decent living standards, says study
About a third of the energy required for a decent living standard can be saved through scaling up public transport systems like bus and rail in emerging cities and pursuing…
[Book Review] “Rewilding” outlines challenges of saving wildlife and its habitat in India
It was delightful and educative to read Rewilding, India’s Experiments in Saving Nature by Bahar Dutt, a conservation biologist and an award-winning environmental journalist, who has reported on some of…
The curious case of India’s missing forest policy
How do you define a ‘forest’? What are the rules regarding inviolate forests? And when will India get its new national forest policy? Many questions loom even as India pursues…
Two new termite species discovered from the Western Ghats
Researchers have discovered two new species of soil-dwelling termites in the biologically rich and biogeographically unique Western Ghats. The identification of the two new termite species from the Western Ghats…
Memories of recent Kerala floods push students to ask for climate action
On a warm January afternoon, as the world stepped into a new decade, several hundred students in Kerala took a pledge to protect the environment. “For the sake of the…
Tribal children in a Jharkhand village learn the joy of science
A hum of voices reciting “A for aluminium” and “B for boron” float through the air in a room of eager children. As the clock strikes three in the afternoon,…
Is the proposed Pamba-Achankovil-Vaippar project an environmental disaster in making?
Effluent carrier of the Sivakasi-Virudhunagar-Toothukudi industrial belt in southern Tamil Nadu, Vaippar now looks almost like a river on a deathbed. Numerous chemical factories dot both banks of the east-flowing…
