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Stories of hope and efforts around environment protection and wildlife conservation from around India.

Manisha Oraon, co-founder of The Open Field, interacts with women at her restaurant. Besides serving local cuisine, her team is documenting Jharkhand’s tribal food traditions. Image courtesy of Manisha Oraon

Tribal entrepreneurs bring indigenous cuisine to the urban mainstream

Kundan Pandey 12 Mar 2025

It takes a village – and an inspired leader – to protect Kutch’s unique inland mangroves

Azera Parveen Rahman 30 Sep 2020

Nilgiris district collector says, environment before development

Arathi Menon 23 Sep 2020

Sundarbans endangered as per IUCN’s Red List of Ecosystems framework, cautious optimism advised

Sahana Ghosh 17 Sep 2020

Bat call library for the western Himalayas takes wing

Sahana Ghosh 14 Sep 2020

Splintered habitats may imperil egg-carrying butterflies

Sahana Ghosh 9 Sep 2020

Reverse migration cheers up agricultural sector in villages

Shweta Thakur Nanda 31 Aug 2020

How Rhizophora mangroves on Car Nicobar islands fought back a rapid sea-level rise in 2004 tsunami

Sahana Ghosh 27 Aug 2020

The coastline juxtaposed to Noliasahi village.

India’s first two ‘Tsunami Ready’ villages

Manish Kumar 26 Aug 2020

[Commentary] Why the plane could, yet the country can’t, run on biofuel?

Monika Mandal 5 Aug 2020

Deep below the surface, boreholes offer clues to past warming in the Western Ghats

Sahana Ghosh 5 Aug 2020

[Commentary] Making communities central to conservation

Sandeep Menon 23 Jul 2020

Rare Gunther’s toad sighting highlights farms as biodiversity hotspots

Arathi Menon 13 Jul 2020

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

Sahana Ghosh 1 Jul 2020

Bridging the gender gap through groundwater monitoring in a Rajasthan village

Sahana Ghosh 29 Jun 2020

Ecosystems-based adaptation keeps water running in Bhojdari even in dry months

Vinaya Kurtkoti 29 Jun 2020

How carbon cycles in Pichavaram mangroves

Sahana Ghosh 24 Jun 2020

Community conservation strengthens biodiversity in Similipal Tiger Reserve

Pragati Prava 19 Jun 2020

[Commentary] India’s Biological Diversity Act finally shows progress due to NGT

Mridhu Tandon 9 Jun 2020

From east to west, cyclones on Indian coasts are a reminder to put climate agenda ahead

Sahana Ghosh 4 Jun 2020

Nanotechnology applications can boost agricultural output in emergencies

Sahana Ghosh 18 May 2020

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