Increasing tree cover in drylands can ensure food security, solve water crisis

The world’s drylands must be restored as they provide habitat for biodiversity, protect against erosion, help combat desertification and …

Dams and sea deliver death blow to Nile delta

Sandwiched between an encroaching sea and dams that prevent silt from reaching it, the Nile delta seems doomed.

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ATM agriculture: There are reasons as to why there is so much resistance to the idea of natural farming

It is different. In this case, science promotes competition in the plants so that they can build soil reservoirs of fungi and bacteria and …

How India’s lunar landing shapes future of space exploration, geopolitics — an expert explains

The question is, how will the rival super-space powers progress their ambitions?

What we know about blastomyces, the fungus that killed 1 & infected 100 at a Michigan paper mill

The fungus is found in Michigan but an infection is very, very rare

Erosion by Ganga threatens India’s largest botanical garden in Howrah

Agencies cite fund crunch, seek central assistance   

World Nature Conservation Day: These 5 communities of India preserve ecology in their own distinct ways

The main aim behind observing the day is to protect various natural resources

Mobile soil nutrient tester

The soil meter will be available in four months; cost: Rs 5,000

Rural priorities must be set by villagers

Personality clashes lead to internal schisms

Food for thought

A sorry state, indeed!

Industrial pollution in rural Raigarh: NGT appoints new head to oversight committee

New committee head will implement measures to check pollution and assess compensation payable by offenders

Integrating trees in African agricultural landscapes

The challenge for policy makers is how to increase agricultural productivity without expanding into forestlands and with minimal use of external …

Wheat production to be record high despite unseasonal rains: Officials

Back-to-back western disturbances have enriched the soil moisture in the past two weeks, say scientist

Is contract farming in India really worth it?

It is a novel idea; but in a country where the ruling class openly favours corporates, it could prove disastrous for farmers

Desertification in India: Mining erodes soil, water table dips in Jharkhand

Water table in Barkitand village of Giridih district has fallen from 8 metre below the ground level in 2013 to about 10 m in 2017

Earthworms are more important than pandas (if you want to save the planet)

We focus on large, charismatic animals at the expense of these crucial "lowly creatures"

Chennai’s soil, Delhi’s air most contaminated due to high PCB concentration: study       

Informal recycling of e-waste, open burning of solid waste, combustion of coal and ship-breaking activities cause PCB contamination

Scientists find energy source of bacteria responsible for arsenic contamination

Till now, it was known that some bacteria were breaking down compounds in the soil, causing arsenic to be released in the process. But no one …

The new culprit of global warming

Though the world's attention is focussed on the degradation of tropical forests as a major contributor to global warming, the depletion of boreal …

Himalayan plunder

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