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People walking on a road adjacent to the MSW dump

Untreated legacy waste is polluting the sensitive wetland ecosystem of Deepor Beel

Barasha Das 24 Aug 2022
Community members of Chug CCA discuss on the issues of human-animal negative interactions. Photo by Manisha Kumari.

[Commentary] Solar fencing to combat human-animal negative interaction in Arunachal

Manisha Kumari 23 Aug 2022

Climate resilient millets boost livelihood opportunities for Odisha’s tribal women

Aishwarya Mohanty 16 Aug 2022
Authorities in Kashmir, over the years, have been advising farmers to shift to alternate crops. Photo by Umer Asif.

Dual threat of drought-like conditions and flash floods puts Kashmir Valley’s food security at risk

Zubair Amin 12 Jul 2022

[Photos] Maharashtra’s female farm workforce struggles in the shadows of floods

Sanket Jain 23 Jun 2022

Scientists unpack the influence of black carbon aerosols on rainfall in northeast India

Sahana Ghosh 23 Jun 2022

Accelerating rate of groundwater depletion in Punjab, worries farmers and experts

Vivek Gupta 14 Jun 2022

Exploring biochar as a nature-based solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

T. V. Padma 13 Jun 2022
A cultivated wheat field in the Rohtak district of Haryana. Photo by Kapil Kajal.

Heatwave takes a toll on north India’s wheat yield

Kapil Kajal 8 Jun 2022

Oil palm farmers in Arunachal Pradesh lose hope in absence of processing mills, market, road linkage

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 6 Jun 2022
M. Venkatarami Reddy, a farmer from village of Nerabilu gram panchayat falls in Yerravaripalem mandal of Tirupati district, at his 22-acre mango farm showing the fall in yield this year. Photo by G Ram Mohan.

Unprecedented rainfall and pesticide usage lead to low mango yields in Andhra Pradesh districts

G. Ram Mohan 24 May 2022

[Video] When sand mining alters a river, flooding farmlands in Spiti

Munmun Dhalaria 12 May 2022
Elephant herd crossing roads at Bandipur. Photo by Lokeshlakshmipathy/Wikimedia Commons.

Corridors with high human activities may not ease elephant connectivity: study

Rupsy Khurana 9 May 2022

[Interview] Prabhu Pingali on the pathways to minimise tradeoffs between hunger reduction and climate mitigation

Sahana Ghosh 5 May 2022
Glossy ibis flock in a flooded field. In addition to recording observed bird species, Katwal and colleagues also assessed how different agriculture practices influence the abundance of birds by season and the crop mix in the fields. Photo by K. S. Gopi Sundar.

Nepal, India need robust conservation policies for farmland birds outside protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 May 2022
A farmer showing how continuous waterlogging has turned his land barren at Imlota village of Charkhi Dadri district in Haryana. Photo by Sat Singh.

Waterlogging pushes Haryana farmers to sell agricultural land, take up odd jobs

Sat Singh 27 Apr 2022

Can carbon-positive villages pave the way for climate resilience?

Sahana Ghosh 21 Apr 2022
Image shows aquaculture farms in Sundarbans

[Commentary] Is expansion of aquaculture in the Indian Sundarbans an ecological threat or a pathway to sustainable development?

Shaberi Das, Sugata Hazra 20 Apr 2022

[Photos] Lessons from a 74-year-old farmer who switched to organic sugarcane farming

Sanket Jain 18 Mar 2022
Close-up of chickpea plant. Photo by Srujan Punna.

Scientists sequence chickpea genome which could inform crop improvement efforts

T. V. Padma 15 Mar 2022