Peoli: NID grads’ slow fashion brand hand spins success story with natural yarns; empowers Uttarakhand women

Two graduates from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, are combining the spinning and [...]

In pictures: India’s 10 Blue Flag beaches that stand out for sustainability, safety & accessibility

India is home to ten beaches with Blue Flag certification, a global eco-level tag given [...]

Man-animal conflict: Tiger attack survivors in Sundarbans share their stories

It was six in the morning when Tarak Mistri debarked from his anchored dinghy into [...]

Udaipur youths turn barren lands green; help 1200 farmers go back to traditional farming

Growing up in Peeplond village of Bhilwara district in Rajasthan, Bhuvnesh Ojha remembers the long [...]

Aquatic weed water hyacinth gives rise to ecofriendly handicrafts industry in the North-East

At Bozaltoli village in Assam’s Tinsukia district, Smriti Rekha Chetia and her husband remove water [...]

From hunters to forest guides, how tourism & education are transforming the semi-nomadic Pardhis of Panna

After decades of hunting down tigers, leopards, francolin, peacocks and other wildlife, members of the [...]

How a Santhali folk singer & orphans turned barren land into forest at Bengal’s Ajodhya Hills

The lap of Ajodhya Hills in the Purulia district of West Bengal presents a panoramic [...]

Assam’s Samir Bordoloi glamourises zero-cost organic farming; draws Northeast youth back to agriculture

It was the winter of 2011. Samir Bordoloi, a farmer from Assam, was frustrated after [...]

From creating world’s first mangroves app to mapping new species, how Godrej & Boyce balances conservation with business

Soon after independence, an indenture made in 1948 transferred the then village of Vikhroli to [...]

Govt, corporates need more sensitisation on environment: India’s Waterman Dr Rajendra Singh

Even as the entire humanity is faring through a deadly pandemic, our understanding of the [...]