Environment and Her News

From environment heroes to women-centric solutions for environmental problems, our stories in this series explore how the environment impacts women uniquely. What are these challenges and are women equipped to handle them?

Geeta Kini, a jamun cultivator, holds an umbrella to protect the produce from heavy rainfall. She says that previously, at least 50 women would sell jamuns by the roads. This year, there were very few of them, owing to a huge loss of jamuns, according to her. Image by Rushikesh More.

Stories no longer lost in translation

Saumitra Shinde 13 May 2025

Women need governmental support to deal with climate change in the Himalayas

Mayank Aggarwal 5 Mar 2019

Trinity-saioo-meghalaya

A school mistress spearheads a turmeric farming movement in Meghalaya

Sahana Ghosh 4 Mar 2019

Stories that highlighted the intrinsic link between women and biodiversity in 2018

Sahana Ghosh 31 Dec 2018

Tiger widows of Sundarbans: Navigating ecology, beliefs and mental health

Sahana Ghosh 28 Dec 2018

Sundarbans women lead the way in making dairy farms organic

Sahana Ghosh 5 Dec 2018

Meghalaya’s black holes: Unregulated rat-hole coal mines ravage environment

Sahana Ghosh 29 Nov 2018

Women forest guides pave new paths in Chhattisgarh

Raghuraj J. Singh Garcha 25 Sep 2018

Waiting to heal: Five years since the Uttarakhand floods, the scars are still fresh

Mayank Aggarwal, Video by Kartik Chandramouli 4 Jul 2018

[Commentary] Why are women neglected as conservers of biodiversity?

Anjana Vencatesan 21 Jun 2018

The women in Assam who live alongside rhinos

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 30 Nov 2017

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The eucalyptus weevil Gonipterus platensis, photographed in the Nilgiris, is thought to be native to Tasmania. However, it has been found as an invasive in other countries, particularly where Eucalyptus trees are grown. Image by Sankararaman via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).