No consensus

The UN Forum on Forest's fourth meet ended half a day ahead of schedule, raising doubts on the convention's ability to frame an agenda. Clifford …

Rajasthan's kunds get undesirable makeover

Desert healer

Ruhi Kandhari travels to a cold desert in Himachal Pradesh to see how a former bureaucrat is greening it

Mangoes lost 150 years ago

A Karnataka farmer conserves mangoes lost 150 years ago

Roadside remedy

A common plant growing in the wild in Garhwal, basingu is traded both as a medicinal herb and vegetable

‘Tribal philosophy can’t be ignored beyond a point’

At a time when climate change is emerging as a reality, indigenous people are eager to give-up their low-carbon lifestyle and join the bandwagon …

Caught in the web

Of poverty, life in India has improved little over the past decade, reports the planning commission's National Human Development Report 2001

The wealth of tradition

Vietnam has taken a keen interest in tradional medicine since its independence in 1954. In the war against colonial France and later the …

Flushing down its traditions

A good society knows how to clean its rubbish. But instead of setting an example for the world through its traditional handling of human excreta,…

A way out of drought

Despite the government sinking crores, plight of the drought-affected people remains unchanged

Liquid asset

What exactly is this US patent on the cow urine-antibiotic combination?

Another world is possible

Optimism is a great friend but a bad guide. The Asian Social Forum meeting in Hyderabad, India, deliberately avoided this truism while …

No dropping anchor

Mired in misery, Chilika's fisherfolk continue to doggedly fight for their rights

20 hectares of millet

Prickly, delicious

Stars dont foretell any more

Sahyadris have been documenting the changing climate for 40 years

Foodwise

Farmers in Maharashtra revive 120 varieties of local crops

सेहत और स्वाद की घंटियां

कई बीमारियों के उपचार के साथ-साथ जमरूल शरीर की प्रतिरोधक क्षमता भी बढ़ाता है। भारत समेत कई देशों में इसे सौभाग्य का प्रतीक माना ...

Many Indian women denied mobile phones to keep them 'pure'

A study finds a 33 per cent gender gap in access to mobile phones in India that is inhibiting women’s earnings

Small sweet success

Farmers in the Western Ghats warm up to wonder fruit kokum after local organisations create a market for it

Why India's local health traditions need to be formalised

Traditional healers need to be brought into the public health systems as they function in a resource-strained ecology

Leafy saga

Of the 106 species of leafy vegetables consumed in southern Odisha, 78 are wild species—each with a distinct taste and medicinal property

Go foraging for edible plants

One person's weed can be another person's green

Go Gokul gone

For all the noise around cow protection, NDA's cow mission, the very first it announced on assuming power, has nearly died

Kindred spirit

Stephen R Bown retells the expeditions of a fearless explorer Knud Rasmussen, which provide us a benchmark to measure changes in Inuit culture. …