Biodiversity buffer

It can protect dryland from withering due to climate change

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 …

A drought of up-to-date data

Nearly 27 per cent of India has undergone a climatic shift since the last study on drought areas

The goat gamble

It has been a slow and steady shift over decades. Forced by declining returns from farming in ecologically fragile areas, small farmers have been …

C: Green planet

Will the world move towards a more fair and environmentally just future?

Postponed

Issues concerning the earth's future took a backseat as unseemly politics ruled the day at the just concluded Earth Summit II SUPRIYA AKERKAR …

Spread of GM plants out of control in many countries, says report

German-based non-profit says transgenes from species such as bentgrass, oilseed rape and cotton have already escaped permanently into the …

B: High drama

The forest convention was the most controversial issue at the Summit. However, the G-77, a strident opposer, failed to act as a united force

Costly silence

No one is debating where goats will graze

Odisha village takes up tendu trade, but finds no buyers

Government does not provide market linkages or support price after deregulating trade in the minor forest produce. It's a conspiracy, say activists

MERS virus may spread to India post Haj

Researchers predict spread of acute respiratory syndrome that originated in the Middle East by studying population movements; Mumbai, Kozhikode …

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