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A field of Jeera Phool, a variety of black rice. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla.

Tribal farmers trace tradition to survive climate variabilities

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 11 Dec 2025

India’s forest communities hold the climate solutions we overlook [Commentary]

Saurabh Purohit, Y.D. Imran Khan 7 Jul 2025
The marshes of Tso Kar in the Changthang Plateau of Ladakh. The implementation of access and benefit sharing in remote regions is already compromised by the topography and scarcity of resources, and further at risk by the ABS regime. Image by Esha Joshi.

Access and benefit sharing regulations impinge on the rights of local communities [Commentary]

Esha Joshi, Neema P. Broome 16 Jun 2025

New regulations define access-benefit sharing from biological resources

Simrin Sirur 12 Jun 2025
Controlled burning in Dibang Valley district, Arunachal Pradesh

Wildfires and the forgotten science of community forest management [Commentary]

Ranjan Kumar Ghosh, Pranab R. Choudhury 25 Feb 2025
Nagaland activist Seno Tsuhah

[Interview] How a Nagaland activist is reviving traditional practices to combat climate change

Angana Chakrabarti 10 Feb 2025

Rooted in tradition, nature-based architecture bridges generations

Barasha Das 1 Nov 2024

[Commentary] Conserving old ways in a new world

Arathi Menon 2 Oct 2024

Uniting traditional wisdom with modern science, barefoot ecologists record climate impacts

Gowthami Subramaniam 14 Aug 2024

Trust, cost go greater depths to sustain unscientific water divining practice

Simrin Sirur 12 Aug 2024

Uncertainty looms over weather weary weavers

Arathi Menon 3 Jul 2024

Farmers pin hopes on new agricultural calendar to weather climate variabilities

Arathi Menon 10 Jun 2024

Dwindling forest commons leave Koraput tribal communities with little to celebrate

Simrin Sirur 22 May 2024

Indigenous knowledge of Jharkhand’s forest greens need preserving

Kushagra Rajendra, Vineeta Parmar 10 Apr 2024

Millet tradition loses flavour among Madhya Pradesh’s tribals

Shuchita Jha 11 Mar 2024