Agriculture is egocentric

Norman Uphoff, professor emeritus of government and international agriculture at Cornell University, US, likes to say that the system of rice …

Saline solution: How MGNREGA helped Nagapattinam recover from the 2004 tsunami

Two villages in the Tamil Nadu district fought soil salinity through MGNREGA

Depleting cover

Forest cover in Europe is decreasing at an alarming rate, says a new study

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Spate of neglect

Shrimp lose shine in Bangladesh

Odisha’s soil leads to landmark discovery about early life evolution

A paleosol from India is telling us that there was a short-lived pulse of atmospheric oxygenation and this occurred considerably earlier than …

How communities in China helped keep desertification at bay

A fast-ageing population could deter efforts to achieve the United Nation’s target of zero land degradation by 2030

NASA confirms water on moon’s sunlit surface: What does it mean for lunar science

Water distributed across surface of the moon; can help understand how the solar system evolved

Flash droughts hit nearly 15% rice, maize areas in 1951-2018 monsoons: Study

At least 39 flash droughts occurred in 1951-2018; 82% occurred during the monsoon season, the study found 

Thirty Million, a documentary on Bangladesh and that sinking feeling

This documentary by Daniel Price and Adrien Taylor explores the adverse impact of climate change on Bangladesh' landscape, food security and …

Jungle story

How the world's first human-made forest is being sustained by an indigenous community in Assam despite a range of threats

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Increasing green cover could trigger the release of carbon trapped in soil

Root out erosion

Clean and grassy

Contaminated soil can be remedied by planting ryegrasses

Drought monitoring: Untapped data

Government does little with records that could help reduce effect of drought on agriculture

High carbon in paddy fields questions India's methane emission levels

Paddy cultivation reduces global warming

Court cements Nirma claim

Rejects farmers’ plea against cement plant in Bhavnagar

What is the status of dumpsite remediation across India

Total of 13 states and three UTs are lagging behind the target

Soy seed racket busted in Maharashtra

Regional manager suspended

No to shipyard

The Rs 300-crore project is being builtin Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore district

Brahmaputra rail bridge project suffers delays

Neermahal: palace on shrinking lake

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