How India lost its finest Banni grasslands to an exotic species called Prosopis Juliflora
A weed maligned
A fearsome weed in the Rann of Kutch is hardly, as is feared, sucking the land to death
Great change in Little Rann: How solar power is helping Gujarat's salt workers
Only one male Great Indian Bustard left in Gujarat: experts
Most males in the area have fallen prey to power lines built by Suzlon and GETCO
Duplicity
Indian scientists develop technology for harvesting water from dew
A suitably designed dew-cum-rainwater harvesting plant can potentially harvest 320- 325 mm of rainwater and atmospheric moisture during a year
Great change in Little Rann: How solar revolution helped cut salt industry’s carbon tracks
Several rounds of research and help from non-profits, solar pumps suitable for salt makers’ needs was designed
Climate change pushed Indus Valley migrants west to east: Study
The research found new evidence at two sites in the Great Rann of Kutch and Thar desert to come to this conclusion
Great change in Little Rann: How salt workers on the brink in Gujarat brought about a solar revolution
In this first part of a three-part series, here is a look at how Agariya salt workers in the Little Rann of Kutch transformed their lives by …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 13, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Conservation as tool for assertion: How Banni pastoralists took matters in own hands
The Maldhari community of the area used various sections of forest rights act to regain livelihood options
Killing ground
Gujarat wetlands turn into graveyards for flamingos colliding with electric and telephone wires
Saltpan workers debarred from entering Little Rann write to Gujarat CM requesting state intervention
Issues pertaining to the settlement survey have not been addressed in the last 50 years, says memorandum
Scorching salt
As the world celebrates yet another Environment Day, groups of marginalized people in some part of the globe or the other get evicted from their …