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[Explainer] What is recycling? How does it work in India?
India’s recycling sector grapples with issues like ineffective waste separation and contaminant-infused recyclables.
Indian farmers choose cocoa amid global shortage
For farmers growing other crops, planting cacao as an intercrop, increases their earning potential.
When books sink underwater in Assam
Students and teachers from flood-affected areas in Assam continue to be impacted every year with schools being temporarily closed and equipment becoming permanently damaged as annual floods hit the state.
[Commentary] Conserving old ways in a new world
Despite the growing global acknowledgment of indigenous knowledge and practices in conservation, there is a lack of policies or legal frameworks to protect this knowledge and provide a supportive market economy for equitable benefit-sharing.
Mongabay India examined the role of local communities in the sustainable conservation of natural capital, which is essential for economic growth, through grassroots stories on indigenous knowledge systems.
[Book Review] A compelling memoir of a mountaineer-geologist
The book, Breaking Rocks and Barriers, chronicles the life of Sudipta Sengupta, a mountaineer and geologist, with many firsts to her name.
The author writes on her experience of an all-women’s mountaineering expeditions in the 1960s and extensive fieldwork as a geologist in India and across the world until the 1980s.
Almost 20 years after the tsunami, Andaman’s mangroves are still changing
A mass mortality of mangroves was followed by a slower die-off over the decades.
Goa mining: new regime, bigger challenges
The central and state govt have fastracked resumption of iron ore mining in Goa. What does it means for the state?
Sonam Wangchuk and climate marchers stopped, detained, and then released by Delhi Police
Over 150 citizens from Ladakh marched from Leh to Delhi, to highlight demands for statehood and the sixth schedule.
