India’s construction boom is driving rapid growth in the brick sector, making traditional brick kilns a significant contributor to carbon emissions due to coal-intensive firing processes. In Kanpur, ...

Tal Chhapar Wildlife Sanctuary in Rajasthan was once a degraded grassland with its blackbuck population having to be fed food and water by the forest department. Restoration efforts in the grasslands, ...

Once hunted and butchered for oil and meat, the whale shark is now being rescued by the fishers in the Arabian sea coast. The conservation movement that started in Gujarat has now reached the ...

When a thermal power plant in Talcher, Odisha, closed, local markets that once thrived on workers’ daily spending, collapsed, leaving shopkeepers and small vendors struggling to survive. After decades ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Cherrapunji, also known as Sohra, is located in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya. A region with records of the highest rainfall, it is ...

Initiated in the early 1970s, the Mandal dam remains unfinished, displacing hundreds of families without full compensation. Despite fresh clearances and reduced reservoir levels, locals say jobs, land ...

Jaigir, a remote tribal village deep within the core zone of Palamu Tiger Reserve in Jharkhand, has been home to humans and wildlife who have coexisted for generations. After years of negotiations ...

Submerged Worlds and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Mighty Rivers by Vaishali Shroff brings together well-researched stories of the ecology, mythology, politics, history and culture of India’s ...

Green jobs are evolving beyond technical roles and fieldwork; people with skills or experience in fields such as engineering, finance, architecture, communications, law and others can find positions ...

China’s plans to build a 60,000 megawatt dam on its side of the Brahmaputra has renewed the Indian government’s interest in building its own mega dam, the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in ...

The activism around Kerala’s Silent Valley was a grassroots movement to protect the pristine forests from being submerged by a proposed hydroelectric dam, highlighting the conflict between ...

Studies have highlighted the abundance of wild edible greens along organic paddy fields which have long supported the nutritional and medicinal needs of indigenous ...