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Forest man of India' Jadav Payeng in his Molai Kathoni forest. Photo by Anudip Gogoi.

Planted forests can tackle flood and erosion impacts along the Brahmaputra

Nabarun Guha 29 Nov 2021
Members of a women-led group, most involved in farming, in front of solar panels powering irrigation in Jharkhand. Photo by Srikant Chaudhary/Mongabay.

Small steps are making energy sector more inclusive for women

Sahana Ghosh 23 Nov 2021

Two decades of a city lake conservation shows results but work remains

Shuchita Jha 19 Nov 2021

Integrated farming systems emerge as possible climate adaptation solution

T. V. Padma 12 Nov 2021
Jhum field of millet cultivation. NESFAS.

An indigenous community in Meghalaya offers lessons in climate resilience

Sahana Ghosh 4 Nov 2021

Goa’s pilot seaweed farm explores viability of this climate-smart algae

Cordelia B. Francis 28 Oct 2021
Ox-eye daisy in the Kashmir Himalayas in India. Photo by Anzar A. Khuroo

Snug in Kashmir’s meadows, ox-eye daisy worries scientists

Sahana Ghosh 27 Sep 2021
Theophilus Khojol gets ready to harvest pineapples in his agroforestry land in Assam. Photo by Animekh Hazarika.

Sweet pineapples and a variety of trees nurture each other in this patchwork plantation

Sahana Ghosh 23 Sep 2021

Keeping alive a mangrove conservationist’s legacy to protect Kerala coast

K.A. Shaji 21 Sep 2021

Most famines in south India under British rule due to minor rainfall fluctuations, rather than extreme events

Sahana Ghosh 15 Sep 2021

Kerala’s homegardens are a natural solution for climate change mitigation

Arathi Menon 27 Aug 2021

To escape floodwaters, Kaziranga’s large herbivores risk moving through human-dominated spaces: study

Sahana Ghosh 27 Aug 2021
Teak plantations in Kerala. Photo by Anand.osuri/Wikimedia Commons.

Compensatory afforestation unlikely to make up for the loss of carbon stocks

Supriya Vohra 23 Aug 2021

Blue whale songs recorded off Lakshadweep coast

Sahana Ghosh 20 Aug 2021

Coral transplantation helps, but not the only solution

Supriya Vohra 18 Aug 2021
Girls at Science Park in Kolkata. Photo by Biswarup Ganguly/Wikimedia Commons.

Soils from city parks are important hotspots of microbial diversity: study

Sahana Ghosh 17 Aug 2021

IPCC report warns India likely to see more extreme weather events

Mayank Aggarwal, Sahana Ghosh 11 Aug 2021
Two storied dru toilet in Himachal Pradesh. Photo by Rakshak Kumar Acharya.

Microbial boost to Himalayan dry toilets can help mainstream organic farming

Sahana Ghosh 11 Aug 2021
'Flood-hit villages relocating after flood in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. Photo by Madhav

Limitations in Bihar’s flood relief likely due to budget constraints

Pushyamitra 4 Aug 2021
An invasive alien plant species (Mikania micrantha) growing along the roads to Thalassery, Kerala. Roads often function as corridors of long-distance spread and establishment of IAPS. Photo by A. K. Banerjee

[Commentary] We know the problem of alien invasive species, but are we doing enough to solve it?

Achyut Kumar Banerjee 4 Aug 2021