The wonder tree kait

Is neglected due to slipshod policies, says BHASKAR RAY

Health is skin deep

Peel of fruits and vegetables is more nutritious than the food

A multi-pronged attack

The people of southern Zimbabwe have found a variety of ways and means to upgrade the quality of the environment in their part of the world

Rank display

Flowers are unquestionably la mode in India

Sands of life

Beyond the Thar's austere barrenes, a battle of survival rages - between the region's treasure-trove of floral diversity and marauders like humans,…

More than intoxicating

Yet government policy has forced many people to give up mahua -- their nutritious staple food

The cactus and its uses

Cacti are prickly, and pleasing. Extremely ungainly, they flourish in arid conditions where no plant will survive. Succulent inside, their thick …

Tang Pangs

The juice runs out of Nagpur's orange orchards

The Cherry Blossoms of Japan

Green is the all pervading colour of nature. Beatiful and breathtaking. But not can stir the soul and the mind as the dazziling white of sakura, …

BOW BEFORE THE ORCHIDS

A look into what could be the world's most- elevated plant family

Checking in Quietly

Bad regulation equals contaminated imports

BOW BEFORE THE ORCHIDS

A look into what could be the world's most- elevated plant family

The lotus effect

Water doesn't stick to lotus leaves. Nature has given the plant a self-cleaning mechanism. Crack the science of it, and you have the formula for …

Common science

A website helps people observe and understand nature while gathering scientific data

Bitten by the betel

Paan is the delicacy among all communities in India. Its cultivation and propagation will serve to strengthen not just the various rituals …

Kerala Knowledge Inc

Kerala shows the way by going for a decentralised method to protect its unique biodiversity

Will planting Causarina give protection against another tsunami?

Unholy deeds in the woods

Human greed is putting an end to the traditional sacred groves in Kerala

Toda traditions in peril

Can this tribal community in the Nilgiris survive the concrete trappings of civilisation? Tarun Chhabra on the eco-friendly Todas

In the red

Left at the mercy of brokers who dictate the market terms, many cultivators of Gloriosa superba have consumed the plant's poisonous tubers to …

Indian scientists return with rare plant samples from Arctic

Adrift and Isolated

A proposed blanket ban on scientific prawn culture in Chilika lake is a total let-down for the fiskerfolk

Colouring plants

Mythila painting is an innovative media that contain powerful messages of conservation

Drying wetlands

Ladakh's high altitude wetlands are under severe stress from the livestock population as well as tourist influx

Paradise under fire

The beautiful Valley of Flowers, known for its flower diversity and fecundity, is caught in a strange controversy over ban on grazing