Rat-Hole Mining in Sutgna village, Jaintia Hills

Green tribunal orders halt on all non-forest activities in the Aravallis in Faridabad

Haryana Pollution Control Board directed to submit air quality analysis to determine extent of pollution caused by illegal development activities

Tiny hydropower plant lights up a remote hill village in Bangladesh

Cheaper than solar and easy to maintain, “pico” hydropower plants offer the only viable form of electricity for remote villages in …

Snatching someone's baby

Villagers in Rajasthan have revived a dried up river in the region with help of a NGO. Now, their fight is with the state government, which has …

Collective action around common resources could help vulnerable communities

There are significant opportunities to build on ideas to promote collective action and commercialisation without commodification on a larger scale

Winds of change in tribal villages

A slew of measures like horticulture, beekeeping, polycropping and creation of water harvesting structures guarantee income augmentation among …

Climate crisis in North East India: Why Nagaland’s Liphi, Runchan villages saw floods never seen before

Nagaland’s Wokha district experienced at least 3 heavy-to-very heavy rainfall events in 2018 

Gujarat High Court stays construction work at Mundra SEZ

12 companies had gone ahead with construction of individual units despite court questioning commencement of work without environment clearance

An attack on grassroots democracy?

Why the Jharkhand government is promoting illegal, parallel governance

Rights infringed

Soak pit revolution: two villages in Mewat treat their own wastewater

The treated water recharges aquifers

Ijurupa, where a family of four nailed down a 72 MT mining proposal

It’s the eighth village to reject proposed mining in a row in Niyamgiri hills

A village desperate for nutrition

Collaborators consolidated

Remembering Anil Agarwal — Forget Malthus: upside of population growth

Increasing population density can also lead to better community management of common property resources, if community property rights are …

Are we seeing early signs of reverse migration in India?

Living in a metropolis can be exciting but there are downsides

Battle to preserve nature resumes in Uttarakhand’s Raini village 48 years after Chipko

Following the dismissal of the petition in the high court, the residents of Raini village are now preparing to appeal to the Supreme Court, …

Odisha’s climate refugees: Last man standing at Satabhaya

Prafulla Lenka, a 47-year-old resident of Odisha’s Satabhaya village, is tenaciously holding on even as his village has almost disappeared …

8 years and Rs 228 crore later, Maharashtra fails to make even one village sustainable

The state’s scheme, aimed at creating environmentally sustainable villages, saw only up to 6% funds being used for green projects

Kalahandi forest dwellers allege FRA violation by state forest department

Activists say that in 3 villages of Kalahand district, the Odisha forest department is imposing on the rights of forest …

Sukhomajri's failing development model

A model Haryana village, which had pulled itself out of poverty by managing natural resources, shuns the very model of development

Glacial burst at Sumna on the Indo-China border near Reni in Uttarakhand

Sumna is an uninhabited place, with only border roads personnel working there; no word yet on casualties

The Forest is a village

Forests are complex ecosystems. But understanding them is not daunting

Mushroom-growing Elm trees can empower Barot village communities

Small innovations often occur at the grassroot level, and these may hold clues for local and regional-level solutions

Remembering Chipko