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India

  • An encounter with the elusive Gangetic dolphin

    January 15, 2021

    After a chance sighting, writer Nimesh Ved explores how India’s endangered river dolphin is faring in Uttar Pradesh, and asks how the inland waterways project will affect it

  • A little help transforms farming in two West Bengal villages

    January 14, 2021

    Training and improved irrigation have helped indigenous and marginalised communities in two villages to take up farming and reduce their dependence on forests

  • Bihar farmers save the Greater Adjutant Stork

    January 12, 2021

    The endangered birds, locally called Garuda, repay by killing farm pests

  • Indigenous people demand new home after exclusion from Assam national park

    January 11, 2021

    For over 20 years, Mising people have been victims of restrictive conservation policies in the same forest that is being opened up to industry and mining

  • Children and young people gather on December 6 at Gujjar Nagar in Jammu to clean up the riverbank [image by: Tapasya Tofuss]

    Volunteers in Jammu strive to save the Tawi river

    January 08, 2021

    In Jammu, the Tawi river becomes one of the most polluted in Jammu and Kashmir, inspiring local clean-up efforts, but little government help

  • Ropeways’ green image masks potential damage in Himalayas

    January 04, 2021

    Ropeways are being touted by the Indian government as an environment-friendly form of transport in the Himalayas, but experts and locals say they risk disturbing fragile mountain ecosystems and disrupting livelihoods

  • An encounter with the elusive Gangetic dolphin

    January 15, 2021

  • A little help transforms farming in two West Bengal villages

    January 14, 2021

  • Bihar farmers save the Greater Adjutant Stork

    January 12, 2021

  • Indigenous people demand new home after exclusion from Assam national park

    January 11, 2021

  • Children and young people gather on December 6 at Gujjar Nagar in Jammu to clean up the riverbank [image by: Tapasya Tofuss]

    Volunteers in Jammu strive to save the Tawi river

    January 08, 2021

  • Ropeways’ green image masks potential damage in Himalayas

    January 04, 2021

Energy

  • hydroelectric dams in Arunachal Pradesh

    Best of 2020: Himalayan dams become economic burdens

    December 26, 2020

  • Narendra Modi, Xinhua/Alamy

    India pushes back against strengthening climate pledge

    December 11, 2020

  • China’s plans for gigantic Brahmaputra dam strains relations with India further

    December 04, 2020

  • Q&A: The engineers lighting up remote Himalayan hamlets

    November 18, 2020

Pollution

  • Children and young people gather on December 6 at Gujjar Nagar in Jammu to clean up the riverbank [image by: Tapasya Tofuss]

    Volunteers in Jammu strive to save the Tawi river

    January 08, 2021

  • ‘Pandemic a chance to correct course on climate and health’

    December 03, 2020

  • Organic composting offers hope to deal with stubble burning

    December 01, 2020

  • Crucial to bird migration, India’s wetlands are under threat

    November 19, 2020

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