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[Explainer] What is the Sixth Schedule? Why is Ladakh demanding to be brought under it?

Kundan Pandey 17 May 2024

FAO estimates $12.7 trillion worth hidden costs in the journey of food from farm to table

Kundan Pandey 29 Nov 2023

India needs legal framework for closing mines and power plants

Kundan Pandey 25 Oct 2022
Image shows a village meeting in Maharashtra, India

[Commentary] Tracing Panchayati Raj’s role in deepening democracy and decolonising governance over 30 years

C. R. Bijoy 25 May 2022
Trees uprooted by Cyclone Hudhud in a residential area of Visakhapatnam. Photo by Indian Navy.

Plan adaptation and mitigation to factor in growing risk of compound extremes, study suggests

Sahana Ghosh 21 Mar 2022

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

Sanket Jain 18 Mar 2022
Specimen found at Mishmi Hills. Photo by Minom Pertin.

Butterfly records at the forefront of Arunachal’s biodiversity sightings

Ranju Dodum 14 Dec 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
Jhum field of millet cultivation. NESFAS.

An indigenous community in Meghalaya offers lessons in climate resilience

Sahana Ghosh 4 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
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

Incentivising landowners around Pench to engage in agroforestry for conservation

Priyanka Shankar 2 Aug 2021
Prabha Tirkey Chacko in her field. Photo by Gurvinder Singh.

Dragon fruit farming takes wing in north Bengal

Gurvinder Singh 7 Jun 2021

Shrimp farming gets a push in Uttar Pradesh as India looks to boost exports in fisheries sector

Sneha Mahale 7 Jun 2021
A group of woman going to market to sell forest produces.

PESA: The wait for reforms on the ground continues even after 25 years

Kundan Pandey 4 Mar 2021
The Sandynallah valley where the team did its sampling. Photo by Sarath Kavil.

The Todas may have moved up the Nilgiris 3500 years ago: study

Sahana Ghosh 4 Nov 2020

A budding botanist’s quest for plant-indigenous community relations

Sahana Ghosh 1 Oct 2020

Children sketch human-elephant conflict and coexistence in Odisha

Sahana Ghosh 10 Aug 2020

Mapping human-elephant conflict hotspots from compensation records

Sahana Ghosh 21 Jul 2020

[Commentary] Biting the bullet: Elephant-human associations in perspective

Aritra Kshettry 7 Jul 2020