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Environmental experts opine that the Central Government’s decisions regarding speedy clearances of forest lands display a great interest in ease of business at the cost of the environment. Photo by Vinayaraj/ Wikimedia Commons.

Environment ministry pursues ‘ease of business’, one office order at a time

Mayank Aggarwal 9 Feb 2022
Fragmentation of forests in Southern India due to plantations. The latest government forest report classifies plantations as forests

[Commentary] Green language of the Union Budget may result in net loss for the environment

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 4 Feb 2022

Artificial nests for barn owls help farmers befriend these natural rodent killers

Kasturi Das 7 Jan 2022

Reviving 400-year-old Mughal era water structures to combat climate change in MP’s Burhanpur

Manish Chandra Mishra 23 Dec 2021
Solar energy-powered water pump in a field. Photo by Prashanth Vishwanathan for IWMI/ Flickr.

Addressing challenges in food systems with climate-smart agriculture

Priyanka Shankar, Sahana Ghosh 22 Dec 2021

In Arunachal’s Sessa Orchid Sanctuary communities collaborate with forest officials to conserve orchids

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy Saharia 22 Dec 2021
Sumitra shows the value-added beeswax-products. Photo by Arathi Menon.

Aadhimalai, winner of UN Equator Prize from Nilgiris, offers a lesson in indigenous economics

Arathi Menon 20 Dec 2021

Forests of faith face encroachments and invasive species in Punjab

Jaskaran Singh, Sahana Ghosh 17 Dec 2021
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
Jhum field of millet cultivation. NESFAS.

An indigenous community in Meghalaya offers lessons in climate resilience

Sahana Ghosh 4 Nov 2021

Films that offer a space for discussion on complex environmental issues

Priyanka Shankar 3 Nov 2021
Remnant forests in large tea monocultures in Darjeeling, Eastern Himalayas. Photo by Annesha Chowdhury.

Tea plantations support biodiversity when managed agroecologically

Roopak Goswami 1 Nov 2021
Road construction in progress in tea plantations in Annamalai hills, southern Western Ghats. Photo by P. Jeganathan/Wikimedia Commons.

Lower species richness in deforested landscapes tied to high Kyasanur forest disease risk: study

Sahana Ghosh 10 Sep 2021
A plantation of Eucalyptus sp. in a protected area in Kerala, India. Photo by Anand Osuri/Wikimedia Commons.

Soil in Kerala’s monoculture plantations less healthy, productive than natural forests: study

Arathi Menon 2 Sep 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

All three tiger reserves of Chhattisgarh now in Maoist territory

Alok Prakash Putul 17 Aug 2021

IPCC report warns India likely to see more extreme weather events

Mayank Aggarwal, Sahana Ghosh 11 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

Incentivising landowners around Pench to engage in agroforestry for conservation

Priyanka Shankar 2 Aug 2021

[Commentary] Nature-based solutions hold the key to transform our cities into resilient spaces

Suchismita Mukhopadhyay, Saurav Chowdhury 30 Jul 2021