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The team at Delícias Quilombolas, a family-run food stall that drew some of the longest queues in the COP30 Blue Zone in Belém. Image by Manish Chandra Mishra.

Local Brazilian producers shape the menu at COP30

Manish Chandra Mishra 19 Nov 2025
The People’s Summit brought together more than 1,100 civil society organisations and highlighted themes such as food sovereignty, environmental justice and just transition. Image by André Ferreira/Mighty Earth.

Belém’s streets turn red, black and green as people march for climate justice

Manish Chandra Mishra 18 Nov 2025
Tubers on display at the Nilgiris Earth Festival. Image by Anokha Venugopal/Keystone Foundation.

Tubers and tribals face the climate test

Jeyanthi R. 13 Aug 2025
Women of the Bishnoi community have been associated with environment protection since as far back as 1604, when two women gave their lives to protect trees. Image by Harsh Vardhan.

How the Bishnoi made environmental protection central to their identity [Book Review]

Vandana K. 6 Aug 2025
A farmer shows a sample of his Khapli harvest. Image by special arrangement.

An old grain for bold gain

Hiren Kumar Bose 24 Jul 2025

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

Saurabh Purohit, Y.D. Imran Khan 7 Jul 2025

New regulations define access-benefit sharing from biological resources

Simrin Sirur 12 Jun 2025
Fishermen at work in Keni village in Ankola, Uttara Kannada, Karnataka. Image by Vaishnavi Suresh.

New port project sparks protests

Vaishnavi Suresh 1 May 2025
improved cooking stove in a Lepcha house

Bridging tradition and conservation with improved cooking stoves in Lepcha homes [Commentary]

Abishek Pradhan 3 Mar 2025

Climate change-induced pest outbreak in sugarcane fields impact quality of jaggery

Vishal Kumar Jain 28 Jan 2025
traditional khoti fishing west bengal

Policy gaps are failing traditional fishing communities

Kundan Pandey 23 Jan 2025
Women preparing mahua laddu. Image by Mukesh Mahato.

[Commentary] Mahua and its products need GI recognition

Abhijit Dey, Akriti 26 Sep 2024
Banner image: Common morel. Image by Joost J Bakker via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Wild edible plants enhance food security and climate resilience in Kashmir, finds study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Aug 2024

GI tags protect Indian tradition amid impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss

Priyanka Shankar 6 Jun 2024
Becquartina bicolor sitting on a leaf in Balpakram National Park in South Garo Hills in Meghalaya. This was the first individual of the species sighted by Sarkar in 2017. The cicada’s wings were damaged when it was caught by a bat. Image by Vivek Sarkar.

Researchers describe a new cicada species, bicolor butterfly, from Meghalaya

Vandana K. 16 May 2024

Tapping traditional watermills for sustainable energy solutions

Barasha Das 29 Feb 2024

Channapatna’s traditional artisans toy with modernity 

Arathi Menon 18 Jan 2024
Prayer flags in Lo Manthang, Nepal.

Nepal’s traditional healers push for recognition and licensing of their age-old practices

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 3 Jan 2024

[Book Review] From footnotes to the forefront: a note of gratitude to invaluable field assistants

RSC Jayaraj, Shagufta Ahmed 14 Dec 2023

Ruza, a traditional water harvesting system for the water-scarce mountains

Barasha Das 11 Aug 2023