Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 24, 2022)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal 

Homegrown experts offered for "sale" abroad

Chakriya Vikas Pranali, a rural organisation, has a unique approach to ecological regeneration based on informed agricultural practices. This …

Increased funding for bamboo project

China's stupendous success in exploiting bamboo for economic gains appears to have prompted India to follow suit. The heightened interest in this …

High demand for Indian bamboo in Kenya, Ethiopia

Home remedies

Indigenous is the byword in the water harvesting techniques followed in India's northeast. In Meghalaya, an intricate network of bamboo pipes is …

Nutritious 'weeds'

In Wayanad, Kerala, wild plants hold the key to the survival of the poorest, say n anil kumar and m k ratheesh narayanan

Bamboo shoots: Rich in nutrition as well as flavour

Young, edible shoots are rich in vitamins and amino acids

Bamboo cultivation on India’s private lands can supply the incense stick industry

The incense stick industry can cut down on imports from East Asia if farmers grow bamboo locally

The hidden valley

Our photographer Vikas Choudhary captures the breathtaking landscape of Apatani valley nestled in the midst of wooded hills in Lower Subansiri …

Bamboo for biomass

Bamboo could be a potential source of green gasoline

Can the Northeast become a trade hub?

Or, will they be mere transit points?

Between fungi

United, these survive, save and survive

A voluntary organisation is transforming the lifestyles of villagers by involving women in collective work. The men are also following suit, but …

For a change

When reforms ricochet

The biggest threat to Vietnam's bio-diversity comes from deforestation. In the past 25 years, the total area of natural forests has declined at …

Backyard mess

Wastepaper is abundantly available in India. Yet the Indian paper industry depends heavily on imports. MONALI ZEYA HAZRA finds out why

So long, An An: World’s oldest male giant panda dies in Hong Kong

Why India needs to revise its forest cover targets

Tree plantations by the State forest departments are driven by national policies and forest cover targets; here is why they should be revised

(Tooth) brush up with truth: Electric is the worst, bamboo not great either

Climate change potential of electric toothbrush was 11 times greater than the bamboo toothbrush, the study found

It is legal, yet harvesting bamboo out of reach for these communities

Though bamboo can now be legally harvested, local communities are protesting as they face administrative hurdles

Sanitary napkins with bamboo pulp score over regular pads

A century-old bamboo is a 'new' species, say scientists

Although tribes in Arunachal Pradesh have used Stapletonia rigoense for almost a century, scientists have only recently discovered and …

Another Maharashtra village demands community forest rights

Tribal village Pachgaon to follow Mendha Lekha; to hold bamboo sale as protest to gain community forest rights

Rodents destroy crops in Mizoram

In the tax bracket again

The Orissa government has slapped a forest development tax on three minor forest produce items -- tendu leaf, timber and bamboo. Seen as a …