Good people

Washed, clean and green

The Vankars of Gujarat have reclaimed saline wastelands in Gujarat after 9 years of bloody struggle

No news is bad news

A dearth of information brought brickbats to the department of wastelands development, which was entrusted the Herculean task of reducing the …

A praiseworthy decision

Plant prospects

The stubborn juliflora, which grows mostly in drylands and wastelands, is now invading arable areas. One still speculates about the repercussions

Saving the earth

Techniques developed by villagers in Himachal Pradesh can be integrated into plans to reclaim rocky wasteland in the hills

Pitted with scars

Excessive mining hits coastal Gujarat hard

Engulfed by the ravines

Once a throbbing rural business centre, Birahrua, in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, is now haunted by devilish gullies

Development dilemmas

Green Credit Rules will negatively impact forest ecology, say experts

Former forest official alleges Centre wants to facilitate ‘ease of business’

New hope for Himalayan wastelands

The seabuckthorn plant can change the lives of marginal farmers by enriching soil with nitrogen, preventing its erosion and providing …

Women build where others destroy

Why do women who attempt changes in local land use patterns meet with so much hostility?

Wonder plant

An eco-friendly plant, the Senna can be used to regenerate wastelands with less water and without pesticides

Let the drylands bloom

By maintaining terrestrial forestation to improve the soils, drylands can be saved from being further degraded

The great experimenter

For ages, Indian farmers have practised ecofriendly farming by using local resources to improve soil fertility and control pests and diseases. …

Telling children how not to go the dodo way

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Single ministry to look after watershed programmes

Blasted out

Gubraida gram panchayat scripts a success story by bringing illegal mining to a halt

A fighting chance

One man's dedication transformed the degraded, deforested land of his village

HP snubbed

For denotifying forestland

In short

Corporate wastelands

Tamil Nadu seems set to gift community land to corporates under the name of wasteland regeneration

Nirma loses wetland

Environment ministry revokes clearance to its cement plant

Court raps environment ministry

Asks why it allowed Nirma to create confusion on wetland

Granite greed

Frenzied quarrying destroys livelihoods and environment in Karimnagar