Hilly woes

Darjeeling's Tiger Hill whines under ecological pressure

More than a cuppa

Joint forest management makes Darjeeling's Makaibari estate an environmental treasure

Biocultivars

Tea in trouble

Trade mark for tea

Another step forward for the Darjeeling tea logo scheme

A day with Shibu Karmakar

Nitin Shethi learns more than he had reckoned, from local wisdom

Burdensome load

Laid-off tea workers fall back on forests in West Bengal

An organic cup of tea

The right mix of quality and profits

Tea time tales

Darjeeling tea estates turn bio-organic as Germany threatens to boycott tea containing pesticide traces

Mile-a-minute solution

Fungus to weed out the plague of India's tea plantations

Pandas set free

Unwanted guest

Furore over the transfer of a snow leopard from the City Forest National Park in Srinagar to Darjeeling

Turning over a tea leaf

Production of organic tea in Darjeeling is increasing as consumers in the West refuse to import tea with pesticide residues

24/7 water supply

Three villages in West Bengal's Darjeeling district also export organic tea

Mark of distinction

Genetic marker for authenticating Darjeeling tea

Plucking out problems

Tea estates in Darjeeling are embracing innovative techniques to combat the impacts of climate change

Not brewing right

Tea in the Darjeeling hills is losing its flavour

Teesta dams: A recipe for disaster?

The Gujarat 2001 earthquake drove home the point that cities built on river alluvium and sand are likely to suffer maximum damage from an …

Scientists study flavour and aroma of Darjeeling tea

Why Bengal tea workers feel let down by political parties

Low wages, hazardous work conditions and ‘hollow promises’ have left workers disillusioned

Tea pesticide flavoured

Darjeeling's famous brew, laced with pesticides, poses a threat to public health

Two leaves and a bud, a tale of certain exotics

Sayantan Bera chronicles the simmering discontent in the picturesque tea gardens of Assam, Darjeeling

Scared to leap

Amphibians in India are besieged by numerous threats

Toxicitea tangle

Safeguards have been erected to weed out the supplies of tea laden with high pesticide residue levels. But when governments use these benchmarks …

View from the top

Planners must stop looking down at hill-stations