An Often Overlooked Contributor to Climate Change: Banks
When it comes to climate change’s enemies, there are the usual suspects: large carbon-intensive corporations, negligent governments, and of course, the climate change deniers....
African Swine Fever, COVID-19, & Floods: How NGOs & Volunteers Are Organising Relief During...
While the country tackles the pandemic, in Assam, COVID-19 is just one amongst three disasters the state has faced this year.
Early in February, Assam...
Natural Springs, A Neglected Resource in India’s Water Management System
Natural springs have been a major water source and a vital part of the hydrological cycle for millennia. The very existence of springs has...
Reviving the Thar Desert’s Camel Culture
Sumer Singh Bhati’s Whatsapp status is a photograph of a notice published in Rajasthan’s local newspaper. It informs that 12 kilometres of transmission lines...
Our Radio, Our Voices: Bundelkhand’s Community Radio offers Climate Solutions
On 25 March, as a preventive step to curb the spread of the Coronavirus, India was put under a complete lockdown. As inter-state public...
Creating Resilient Livelihoods in the Sundarbans, Sans Embankments
It was the 1790s. Tillman Henkel, a magistrate appointed by the newly-arrived British, was a busy man. He had the task of developing an...
Preventing Desertification, One Common Land at a Time
Written & Photographed by Vaishnavi Rathore
Udaipur, Western Rajasthan: Gajinder Kalal stood on a cliff in the Aravalli hill range facing the flatlands of Marwar, a...
Drowning India: Managing Floods in the Brahmaputra Valley
Written by Vaishnavi Rathore
July 17th 2019 came with a mixed bag of developments for the Northeast; the escalating waters of river Brahmaputra reached 30.36...
In Her Opinion: Shloka Nath on Sustainability and Climate Change Funding
Climate change is real. And that calls for real, deserving funds to be diverted towards mitigation and adaptation projects. But, as a report of...
Cannabis for a Crisis? How Hemp Can Help India
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed a struggling economy into a full-blown recession. Acute agrarian distress may have been tempered by good monsoons, but the...