Connected Environments News

In a highly connected world, any action on the environment in any part of the world is almost never in isolation. In the Connected Environments series, we go beyond borders and explore the impact of India's consumption needs and demands for natural resources on the environment in other countries.

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

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

Research and resources are two pillars of India’s draft Arctic policy

Ancient tree rings shed light on Brahmaputra’s flood risk

[Commentary] The changing priority of ecosystem services research in the Hindu Kush Himalayas

Joe Biden’s presidency offers a return to climate change dialogue between India and the U.S.

Palm oil muscles in on coconut farmers in southeast Asia

[Photos] Navigating a world built on palm oil in southern Papua

Unique primate habitat in Indonesia under threat from palm oil plantations

Fly ash in India: A free movement of toxicity to Bangladesh

Worsening floods in Indonesia’s Sumatra Island linked to oil palm plantations

Palm oil production impacts livelihood and gender roles in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

[Commentary] The palm oil value chain and India’s links with global deforestation

Gharials swimming across India-Nepal border an opportunity for enhanced co-operation

Hope for healthy yak rides on Druk, the yak bull from Bhutan raised in Sikkim

Climate change favours locust swarms, India increasingly at risk

Erosion, an important cause of mangrove loss in the Sundarbans

Gap in sampling hampers India’s ecological monitoring in Antarctica

Orangutans go into starvation mode with forest fires in Indonesia, study finds

Sikkim braces for climate extremes

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