The concept is pivoted on 3Cs — core, corridor and carnivore
Ethos of a sinking space: Fishers in Sundarbans surmount tiger attacks, bureaucracy to earn livelihoods
Tropical forests losing capacity to cycle carbon and water, finds new tracking system
What would the ancient Greeks think of an Olympics with no fans?
Introducing Gross Environment Product in Uttarakhand: A jargon or reality?
The Uttarakhand government should introduce a well-defined concept of ecosystem services; planting a new term raises doubts on its ...
Tokyo’s gamble with its Olympic architecture needs to be appreciated: Part 2
This second of a two-part series examines the environmental benefits of reusing of old buildings as the games venues ...
Tokyo’s gamble with its Olympic architecture needs to be appreciated
This first of a two-part series examines the use of timber in designing the games village and venues rather ...
Remembering Danish Siddiqui
The Pulitzer-winning journalist has left behind a legacy to thousands of emerging photographers, a legacy to question
Expedite climate action, focus on protected areas: What Bhupendra Yadav should map out
The new environment minister has inherited governance challenges from his predecessor as the country experiences institutional inefficiency
Save Sattal: Tomorrow will be too late; we must start change today
Sattal has been engulfed by raging fires. It grieves the dying springs that once cascaded down to form powerful rivers ...
Nature-based solutions: Convenient ignorance of the inconvenient truth
Solutions based on going back to nature do exist, but to make a tangible impact on climate change, they ...
Devil’s Advocate: Are solar electricity and electric vehicles really ‘clean’
A behind-the-scenes look helps one know that human as well as economic costs need to be paid upfront to ...
Uttarakhand lets in: Migrants bring city, drop sustainability
Scarcity, conservation, equitable and fair use of limited resources does not apply to them.
World Environment Day: We can tackle climate change through ecosystem restoration
We need to invest in research on ecosystems; we need governance that is multi-disciplinary and multi-agency and we need to protect ...
World Environment Day 2021: Why we need to restore contaminated land
Even after 21 years of waste management legislation, a majority of urban local bodies do not have an engineered landfill for ...
World Environment Day : How trees can purify wastewater and provide economic benefits
The pollutants in wastewater act as nutrients for the trees and plants and also help yield higher fuel wood ...
World Environment Day: It is time to act
Our natural resources are enough to cater to the needs of the entire human population. But even a minor ...
Pre-summer rains: How the charm of Chandigarh endures
Every year, the ‘City Beautiful’ located between the Siwaliks and the Indus Plain, plays host to a game between ...
The end of meat and GMOs or the end of us : Part 2
The second in a three-part series series on effects of GMOs and the meat industry on our environment
A tiger reserve declared this year can rejuvenate Vaigai, India’s heritage river
The Srivilliputhur-Megamalai Tiger Reserve will provide protection to Megamalai, the Vaigai’s primary catchment, in turn helping water levels to ...
The end of meat and GMOs or the end of us: Part 1
The first in a three-part series series on effects of GMOs and the meat industry on our environment
Let the Van Gujjars remain nomadic
The attitudes of the forest department towards the Van Gujjars’ nomadism must change in order to view it as a matter ...
Sunderlal Bahuguna, the green leader of India, will be etched in our memory
Gandhian Bahuguna predicted future generation would realise the adverse impact of Tehri dam; now we realise what he meant
Sunderlal Bahuguna: The oxygen for the global green fraternity
Anecdotes from the environmental activist's visit to Kolkata a decade back
Planting trees to protect tiger habitat in Maharashtra
A safe forest corridor was critical for the facilitation of tiger dispersal between Kanha and Pench Tiger Reserves, the ...