Wrong turn

'Permaculture can feed the world'

A permaculturist who believes that hunger is more about distribution and quality of food than quantity and production, Malvikaa Solanki says …

Climate crisis in forests: Dandeli losing its distinctive grasses & hornbills to erratic weather

Rising temperature, changing rainfall pattern may have affected growth of plants essential to native ecosystem

Kharif season 2023: Crop acreage decreases in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh

The acreage of paddy, the main crop of the Kharif season, has decreased by 24 per cent compared to last year. There has been a huge decrease in …

Drought, but why: Karnataka’s water woes won't go away by throwing money on it

Across Karnataka successive monsoon failures in 2018 brought on dire straits for the farmers

9 human-animal conflicts every day in Bandipore, Nagarhole National Park

Most of these involved crop and property damage, shows data by the Wildlife Conservation Society

Political parties choose farm loan waiver for electoral gains, but at what cost?

Farmers have outstanding loan of Rs12.60 lakh crore, which translates to Rs 100,000 per cultivator

Bid for Mahadayi

Should Karnataka divert the Mahadayi's water to end the water crisis in its three districts?

Lack of energy access affecting women’s prosperity in India

A recent report shows how energy requirement of women differ in various states and in different occupations and how limiting the current scenarios are

NGT halts construction on wetland between Bengaluru lakes

The construction projects violated the Master Plan of 2015 as well as environmental guidelines

A sultan’s silken dreams

Let us, for a moment, forget about Tipu Sultan’s alleged iconoclasm and remember him for a remarkable personal achievement—laying the …

Reaping organic

Karnataka was the first state to adopt a policy on organic farming in 2004. Since then, several initiatives have helped farmers fight drought, …

Points to ponder

Right to information and transparency in eia are critical for public participation in development projects

Struggle for existence

Large-scale habitat loss and massive encroachment of the forestland have escalated the instances of wildlife-human conflict in recent times

The Dalit experts

Multimedia Publication >> Affirming Life and Diversity Rural Images and Voices on Food Sovereignty in South India 60 pages (book/report) + …

High Court stays Karnataka’s efforts to divert water from Mahadayi

Court directs state to get forest and wildlife clearances

Karnataka to set up special agency to repair damage caused by unbridled mining

It will implement afforestation, conservation and health schemes funded by mining companies

Green Revolution’s hidden toll

Diabetes, obesity, malaria, Japanese Encephalitis and more

Bihar in reverse gear

State plans to bring down its minimum wage rate to that under MGNREGA

Bengaluru lakes to get facelift

Karnataka High Court sets 2014 deadline to clean up 189 water bodies

Derailed

...Tamil Nadu's initiative to promote wind energy

Chikungunya virus assumes epidemic proportions

How the disease became an epidemic

Lease and lose

Revival plan for a disappearing tree

Tap cards for Hubli