environment
Farming for Healing

What does it take to create and maintain an organic medicinal farm, in the face of rampant development?

Sending the Climate Change message through the Ramayana

Sita and Rama are metaphors for Prakruti (nature) and Purusha (mankind)

Insect-eating bird population drops in heavily extracted Himalayan oak forests

Encourage local communities to capitalise on the increased bird tourism in Uttarakhand by setting up homestays ...

Gandhi, Tagore, Modernity

Both were the earliest harbingers of the planetary ecological crisis, the latter warning of its imminence in multiple literary genres

Bengaluru’s well diggers have shown how traditional water bodies can be revived: Water activitst Vishwanath Srikantaiah

"We must build the governance and institutional capabilities for an integrated urban water management system. The rest will follow."

Pepper helps Rabhas to live with tuskers

"The thorns of lemon discourage them and of course they do not eat pepper (unlike banana and jackfruit)”

How mangrove nurseries are changing the lives of Odisha women & the forest around them

Mangrove forests act as natural bio-shields against the tidal surges of severe storms and protect the life and property of coastal communities

World Biodiversity Day: Why language should not be forgotten

“Tribal languages are a treasure trove of knowledge about a region’s flora, fauna and medicinal plants,"

India’s growing solar power programme could leave behind a trail of waste

A few materials used in the solar panel, like polymers, lead and cadmium compounds, are potentially environmentally hazardous.