`Growing food is like printing your own money'

Ron Finley grows food and for this he has been branded as a guerilla gardener, a renegede, an ecolutionist. It all began four years ago, when Ron,…

Zoo sans garden

City scan

How happy are people living in cities?

Mumbai's open spaces in limbo

Market rules UK's land-use planning

Lawnful of pollution

Each time you mow your lawn you are making smogs worse

Top of the world

It's a voyage of discovery as biologists travel to the unexplored stretches of the rainforest canopy, learning more about this "green ocean"

Architect M N Sharma on why Chandigarh's beauty is becoming history

Le Corbusier Foundation, Paris, plans to put Chandigarh in UNESCO's modern heritage list. M N Sharma, the first architect to work with Le …

Kolkata reconnects with its riverfront

Greening for good?

Global warming increases vegetation cover in the Northern Hemisphere

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Neglect robs Saurashtra park of greenery

A wilderness park nurtured carefully by a former maharaja of Bhavnagar looks decrepit today, with its resources plundered and its wildlife dwindling.

Divided we stand

Wildlife conservationists and social ecologists are sharply divided despite common goals

Proactive planning

It's not about fighting the problem later, it's about pre-empting the problem. Measures against air pollution and plastics are all about taking …

Making a beginning

Community management of natural resources is still in the nascent stage

Three avenues, one goal

The focus is on development of hydropower, industries and food production: how sustainably can the targets be achieved?

Getting it all wrong

Grow food anywhere

With innovative use of space, people in cities are reclaiming their right to safe food

Anti-haven road

Pune citizens keep watchful eye on their city

Concerned residents of the city have formed groups to ensure the municipal authorities take care to keep the city clean, green and functioning.

Villagers one up on government in greening project

The balding hills of Jadhera panchayat in Himachal Pradesh are regaining their vegetation, thanks to an unusual village chief

Charaka and Sushruta reborn

Bangalore University's new BioPark has medicinal gardens that incorporate the near-forgotten science of India's ancient medical treatises

Private project in public park

Residents of Vadodara protest construction of a multimedia laser fountain in a heritage park

High Altitude Dilemma

It is an intriguing view from the high mountains of Bhutan. To the east lies Nepal, grappling large-scale environmental degradation. To the north …