31 iconic sites at risk from climate change, warns UNESCO report

The report gives a miss to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Sundarbans in India

Uttarakhand on bumpy recovery road

The state needs stringent town planning and environment assessment to prevent disasters

It’s not just about a good holiday

Making ecotourism work for all stakeholders requires a new vision

Tadoba tiger reserve An unsafe haven

Timber travails

After completing two years as the chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh Mukut Mithi is proud to relate his government's achievements while …

Two sides of the same coin: Shrinking water bodies and urban floods

Water bodies have become even more critical in current times when cities are facing the challenge of rapid, unplanned urbanisation

The lake colony

Call them the "lakers". Some 10,000 of them. Parts of the Dal (land and water) belong to them. And when they feel the need to make a …

A muddy trail: two landscape architects create a nature trail in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

'Muddy Feet' gives access to a swamp and is meant to promote environmental awareness

Andaman Trunk Road ignores SC order, affects Jarawas' lives

India bans use of dolphins for commercial entertainment

Environment ministry says dolphins are ‘non-human persons’; morally unacceptable to capture them for entertainment

Trespassers allowed

Unregulated tourism around the Corbett Tiger Reserve has restricted animal movement  

Don’t just cash in on tigers

Nature-based tourism: from rhetoric to reality

Arunachal's 'economic development' does not bode well for women

COVID-19 lockdown was a breather for Rajasthan’s lakes, rivers: Report

Low human intervention, stalled tourism helped improve quality of water bodies in the state 

Forest officials kept eyes tightly shut

When it was found there were no tigers in the Panna Tiger Reserve, P K Sen was called to join the government special investigation team. …

Eyeing the coastlines

Further dilution of the rules safeguarding the Indian coastal ecosystem has just been proposed. Under the guise of providing land to poor …

Militancy, weed

... and sewage -- a strong political will is needed to get rid of them?

Lake agriculture

An ingenious and indigenous way of cultivation

Floating stock

Morning in Dal: commotion behind the scenes

Making a beginning

Community management of natural resources is still in the nascent stage

View from the top

Planners must stop looking down at hill-stations

Kolkata reconnects with its riverfront

Man-made reasons for Uttarakhand disaster

Expansion of hydel projects, roads and tourism is making the Himalaya in Uttarakhand crumble

Proactive planning

It's not about fighting the problem later, it's about pre-empting the problem. Measures against air pollution and plastics are all about taking …

Three avenues, one goal

The focus is on development of hydropower, industries and food production: how sustainably can the targets be achieved?