Villagers in Bengal tap into palm sap to boost livelihoods
Sukhdeb Mandy is a sap tapper at Aambera village in Bankura district of West Bengal. The 28-year-old collects sap from date palm trees during the winter season. During the rest…
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[Interview] Green economics is robust enough for policy makers to assess impact of their decisions: Pavan Sukhdev
On January 27, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement announced the two winners for 2020. Gretchen C. Daily and Pavan Sukhdev were selected for their work on the global impact…
Vanishing landscape of ‘smart city’ Dehradun
Once a picturesque town in the foothills of the Himalayas, Dehradun, the capital city of Uttarakhand, is now crumbling under rising population, rapid infrastructure development at the cost of ecologically…
Metal scraps get a new lease of life in art
It was a cold and lazy Sunday afternoon. But inside sculptor Gopal Namjoshi’s studio in Medawas, a small village in Gurugram, work was going on in full swing. Standing atop…
Your Environment This Week: Faith and healing in sacred groves, cheetah reintroduction
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. Water food cultivators in Madhya…
Faith and healing in the sacred groves of Madhya Pradesh
At least twice, the staid kalam tree (Mitragyna parvifolia), standing tall on a mound surrounded by farms in a nondescript village in the hilly areas of western Madhya Pradesh has…
India considers bringing back the cheetah, even as lions and other species wait for conservation attention
Nearly seventy years after it went extinct in India, the cheetah is set to make a comeback. Reversing its own earlier stand, the Supreme Court of India, which in 2013…
[Commentary] Budget 2020 is an opportunity for navigating Indian fisheries sector out of the blues
The fisheries sector, within the primary (agricultural) sector of the Indian economy, is a future source of growth. But it is yet to receive adequate policy attention with a futuristic…
No-mining zones to protect river ecosystems from sand mining
Unsustainable sand mining practices are rampant in India. Despite a set of guidelines in 2016 to curb the practice, illegal and unsustainable sand mining has continued to be common, spurring…
Green cover of many Indian states rises but carbon stock declines
In December 2019, the Indian government released its biennial state of forest report highlighting how the country’s forest and tree cover is rising. But a fact that got lost amidst…
