Save and Grow: a guide to sustainable cereal production

The technique focuses on conservation agriculture, maintaining soil health, selecting crops with higher yield potential and greater resistance to …

A Nationalised Nightmare

One of the main reasons given for nationalising the coalmines of India was to protect workers from accidents. What followed was large-scale …

Climate-smart agriculture: an answer to climate change

Sustainably increasing agricultural production, adapting to climate change and reducing emissions are the main points of climate-smart …

Paradise in peril

Galpagos, an archipelago straddling the equator 1,000 km west of Ecuador, is probably the world's best-known biodiversity zone. But alien species …

Where are the tapovans?

Both India and China are ancient civilisations possessing characteristic indigenous knowledge of conservation of natural ecosystems. The Chinese …

Spreading message

What now ?

Desperate measures are the call of the day. Common people need to have a greater say

The failure

Nationalisation of coalmines has failed badly

Making hell-holes

What slaughter mining and power plants have done to the people and the environment

Satellite Maps Forests

Jhum farming destroys forest cover in northeast India

Issue at hand

Science needs to come home -- scientists need to address the concerns of the local communities

‘Repressive governments use financial crises, global pandemics to change societal norms’

Sam Szoke-Burke, senior legal researcher, Columbia University, talks to DTE amid reports of governments trying to take control of land in name of …

Mutual interest

Farmers care for the hill slopes only when the hills provide livelihood -- a simple lesson that has been forgotten

Grazing concerns

Over-grazing is leading to the degradation of pasture lands

Himalaya's human face

HIMALAYA LIFE ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD·David Zurick and P P Karan·John Hopkins University Press Baltimore and London·1999&…

Old as the hills

Shifting agriculture on the hillsides has been going on for centuries. In recent times, it has been blamed for degrading the ecology. Agriculture …

Operation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners

Double financing for natural ecosystems by 2025 to deal with climate, biodiversity crises: UN report

Current global investments in nature-based solutions $154 billion per year, needs to be $384 billion

Between Maoists and mines

Ho tribals lose hold of Saranda as mining is set to take over the pristine sal forest. A report and photographs by Sayantan Bera

Maoist insurgency

Land struggles and growth of India’s red corridor

Seeing land for trees

COP27 impact: What does the loss and damage fund mean for Majuli’s Salmora potters?

Riverbank erosion due to climate change and government measures to deal with it are both affecting the Assam community

Ban paves the way

The bar on polluting brick kilns opens up opportunities for cleaner technologies

Science under siege

Agricultural science has ossified in India. Despite a vast network of public research institutions and agriculture universities across the country,…