Sustainable agriculture can be key to reducing youth migration in Africa
Agriculture is Africa’s largest employer and a possible solution to its migration problem
How bio-restoration is helping revive degraded mangroves in Sunderbans
Involves plantation of native salt-tolerant grasses, a diverse set of carefully identified mangrove species in different zones of degraded …
How we conducted a feasibility study of water bodies in Faridabad
One should take advantage of available digital interfaces or create one by uploading all data in a systematic way so that the knowledge is in the …
Catchment restoration remains the mantra
Water security requires healthy rivers. Healthy rivers need perennial or prolonged flows . They require well vegetated and protected catchments. …
UN 2023 Water Conference: I am hopeful Great Salt Lake won’t go the Aral Sea and Lake Urmia way, says Kevin Perry
Down To Earth speaks to Kevin Perry from the University of Utah on the Great Salt Lake in the American West
Land the size of South America will be degraded if current trends continue: UN Report
We cannot afford to continue taking land, our most valuable asset, for granted, says UNCCD chief
Rewilding: Mass restoration or wishful thinking?
The concept is pivoted on 3Cs — core, corridor and carnivore
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 20, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 2, 2023)
Aravalli Biodiversity Park: How a sand mine was restored to a 350 acre forest
But why is this place called a ‘biodiversity park’?
Restoring a century-old building in Chandannagar helps raise awareness about heritage management
The Registry Building constructed in 1875 served as the register office as well as the first French courthouse
International Day of Forests: Can India shift from a ‘plantation’ mindset to an ‘eco restoration’ one
On World Forestry Day 2022, a retired forest officer offers some suggestions on India’s future forest policy
Why we need a road map for ecological restoration in India
Identifying priority areas for restoration, enhancing biodiversity and preventing natural disasters should comprise areas of focus
Restoring mangroves in west Africa a challenge, but UNEP shows the way
Mangrove ecosystem in western Indian Ocean, comprising 10 African countries, is rapidly depleting
Mission Dal lake
Vice-chairperson of Lakes and Waterways Development Authority of Jammu & Kashmir, Irfan Yasin, speaks on the state authority's efforts to …
Earth has lost one-fifth of its wetlands since 1700 — but most could still be saved
People need to stop looking at wetlands as wastelands and draining them to make it ‘useful’
India’s urban floods: Why we need to look at nature-based solutions
Solutions to reduce the loss of lives and livelihoods from urban floods; Can be exercised by individuals and local govts
Beyond conservation, why our natural ecosystems need restoration
Significant strides have been made in both the science and practice of restoration over the last three decades, with specialisation across …
Green tribunal orders release of funds for conservation of lakes of Bhopal
Warns Madhya Pradesh of penalty under polluter pays principle if it fails to act to preserve city's polluted and shrinking lakes
Rewilding Tasmania with emus will be good for the island state’s ecosystems
Why did the Tasmanian emus go extinct and should we reintroduce them?
Economic growth is fuelling climate change — a new book proposes ‘degrowth communism’ as the solution
Author’s attempts to reconcile Marxism with newer ideas around alternatives to economic growth might bring critiques of capitalism to an …
Study offers clues on ecological gain of weeding out Lantana
Researchers look into effect of removing invasive bush in Madhya Pradesh’s critical tiger conservation site
How a restoration project in Karnataka is helping revive ecology, community livelihood
Restoration projects can set in motion a virtuous cycle of livelihoods, biodiversity and native knowledge
'Adopt decentralised, low-energy approach'
Manu Bhatnagar, an urban environmental planner, has been heading the natural heritage division of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural …
Farmers need resilient value chains to combat climate impact
Emerging social entrepreneurs are helping restore forest and farmland ecosystems by supporting smallholder farmers without access and …
