Land degradation a major threat but avoidable. So why the inaction

'None of the countries have set numerical targets for land degradation neutrality'

ECO COSTS

A perplexing water cycle

Agricultural areas get no rain, urban areas face water logging  

Farmers quit mentha

Overexploitation of water leaves very little for farming

The poor? They are the government's problem

Plantation mirage

RajasthanÔÇÖs tree planting spree might not check desertification

India desertified

Map of India to change soon. Courtesy: climate change

UNEP report at COP28 reveals $7 trillion invested globally every year on activities directly harming nature

Urgent need to reduce and re-direct finance flows to keep global temperatures below 1.5°C warming

New crop scheme for Punjab farmers

Biodiversity buffer

It can protect dryland from withering due to climate change

Vanishing grasslands

Spreading message

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

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 …