Cleaning up Mt Everest

Tax the rich and help the poor survive

Controversial canal

The wonder fungi

Mycorrhizal fungi can improve the quality and longevity of plants

Bleak future

Lost lands and forgotten people

Reviews sidelined

Panic strikes

Joshimath dispatch: Afraid to report cracks in homes, locals protesting demolition of hotels say

Joshimath locals claim they have been stopped from entering their houses; demand clarity and transparency in compensation

IN PHOTOS: Indigenous protestors camp at Bolsonaro's doorstep as crucial native title case begins

A Brasilia court will hear a case on whether legal protection should be accorded to only those lands owned by native people in 1988

Scheme for promoting home gardens needed: Experts

It can ensure nutritional security of people living in areas where shifting cultivation is practiced

As Bihar’s Kishanganj gets digital fertility map, farmers sound alarm

Farmers at the mercy of corporates if digitalisation of agriculture is allowed to go on, they say

Governments shouldn’t start massive projects in hills without consulting experts, local people

If Joshimath can sink due to the weight of houses and people, what about cutting mountains with explosives

How economic inequality is widening in today’s India

The 21st century has witnessed development with a yawning gap where wealth is concentrated in a few hands

Land for ladies

Rural women in Uttar Pradesh join hands to end gender bias in agriculture and claim joint ownership of land

Sustainable soil management key to Africa's food security

The thrust is now on promotion of sustainable soil management as the approach for boosting healthy soils for a food-secure Africa

Parliamentary panel finds tobacco harmful for forests

The panel found that financial benefits due to tobacco cultivation were negligible as compared to losses suffered in terms of deaths 

Women's tales

THE HIDDEN STORY: A QUEST FOR WOMEN'S UNRECORDED HISTORY Shikhajhjngan and Ranjani Mazumdat Duration 58 minutes Betacam Institution, Rs ION / us $…

Deforestation leads to weakening of summer monsoon, says study

The study found a decrease in rainfall due to large-scale conversion of savannah to cropland

Drought, land degradation affect 1.5 billion people: UN report

UNCCD’s global report on desertification, land degradation and drought explains the current scenario through figures

Data on biodiversity research to be made more accessible

An MoU has been signed at 6th IPBES session in Colombia for free and open access to data

Fertilising frustration

A so-called farmer's cooperative fertiliser company is ruining agricultural land in Uttar Pradesh

Bringing in devastation

Refugee movements the world over have had an unfortunate aftermath: the degradation of environment. The UN hcr has now come out with a set of …

Inching in

A comprehensive study of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park points to government connivance in the destruction of Mumbai's invaluable heritage

Watering down concern

GROUND WATER DEPLETION, LAND DEGRADATION AND IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE IN INDIA·B D Dhawan· Commonwealth Publishers· Pages 200&…