Vanishing grasslands

Spreading message

Mediation can resolve conflicts related to natural resources: UN

New guide for professionals draws on field experience in conflict resolution

What now ?

Desperate measures are the call of the day. Common people need to have a greater say

The failure

Nationalisation of coalmines has failed badly

Making hell-holes

What slaughter mining and power plants have done to the people and the environment

Satellite Maps Forests

Jhum farming destroys forest cover in northeast India

47 power plants in Vidarbha

Why set up thermal plants when the region is power surplus?

Issue at hand

Science needs to come home -- scientists need to address the concerns of the local communities

Grazing concerns

Over-grazing is leading to the degradation of pasture lands

Goa's mining problems

Operation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners

Maoist insurgency

Land struggles and growth of India’s red corridor

Seeing land for trees

Ban paves the way

The bar on polluting brick kilns opens up opportunities for cleaner technologies

SBI deadlock looms over Bonn climate talks

Russia raises matter of procedural irregularities at Doha; parallel sessions continue

Potassium in our soil is running low, threatening global food security – new study proposes a way out

A proposal for a resolution on potassium at a future United Nations environment assembly holds the key to intergovernmental action

Chamundi Hill ropeway plan in Mysuru resurfaces, green activists maintain opposition

A decision will be taken only after a thorough evaluation of pros and cons, state tourism minister HK Patil stated

'Clean environment has to be a fundamental right'

For more than four years now, Narayan Belbase, an environmental public interest lawyer, has been working towards facilitating and mainstreaming …

Journey into the market-place

Papua New Guinea has come a long way from a society that began cultivating crops in 8000 BC and had no need for a market economy. It came in …

Over 70% of Africa's grazing land is facing degradation due to invasive plant species

Introduced as a viable reforestation solution, Prosopis juliflora is causing land degradation in Africa and has put pastoralists at risk as …

A Nationalised Nightmare

One of the main reasons given for nationalising the coalmines of India was to protect workers from accidents. What followed was large-scale …

India lost 31% of grasslands in a decade

While area under grazing and common lands saw a decline between 2005 and 2015, croplands increased, according to a report India presented to UNCCD

Deserts not deserted, but full of floral, faunal activity

These unforgiving lands may appear lifeless only to the unacquainted, but they are a unique and living ecosystem

Desertification in India: Slash-and-burn farming destroys Nagaland

Experts blame shifting cultivation for land degradation as about 20,000 hectares of forest is felled every year in the state for it