A common class of insecticides puts farmers at high risk of diabetes

Long-term exposure to organophosphate insecticides puts the farming community at a higher risk of developing diabetes, shows a study

Altered genes can improve fish

Scientists are trying to enhance the quality of fish by using a controversial technique and are confident the process will be perfected soon.

Invasive species may soon wipe out Shola vegetation from Nilgiris: Report

Alarming expansion of exotic and tea plantations threaten native dry deciduous, moist deciduous and thorn forests and grasslands there

Madurai clean-up

Highs and lows

The government's vanaspati van scheme is good news, but for it to succeed small-scale farmers and local communities have to be brought in its fold

Grow more

There is no land to cultivate medicinal plants, neither are there any legal provisions, nor market access. At present, the risks involved are …

Predicting the future

A severe shortage of medicinal plants and herbs threatens ISM. Cultivation may be the only way out. But currently medicinal plants that are …

A Himalayan Tragedy

People who have no idea about forests step in to further trade, while the indigenous herb gatherers get exploited further

Herbal heist

Hand-in-glove with the forest department, traders of medicinal plants and herbs make hay while communities who depend on herb gathering for …

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