Environmentalism is often an expendable cause to a majority that fears economic oppression by a minority with delusions of saving the earth. But we need not take sides. From corporations striving to harness massive wind power along the Atlantic Coast, to the Herculean trash collectors of the Pacific; from a cross-country initiative to save the vibrant Mekong river basin, to modern China embarking on another, greener Great Wall, five exciting and ambitious projects show how all of us have an incentive to shape the future rather than fight it
Call them just another form of fungi if you want, but here is someone who expects them to save the world
A first generation Soliga post-graduate, C Made Gowda used research to secure his tribe’s future in its ancient home
Few forest officers have booked as many offenders as RS Kala has. Fewer still enjoy the local community support he does
The militant green across the globe are getting desperate and crackdowns by law enforcement on their acts of ‘ecotage’ are getting brutal. The battle lines are drawn
10 popular panaceas that promise to revive our ecologically bankrupt planet. But can they ever deliver?
One Northern Shovelor went to Bihar instead of the Arctic. The patterns of bird migration in India are going awry
Two documentary filmmakers go into the interiors of the Northeast for five years to understand an eerie silence of the forests. They find hope in local tribals defying tradition to go green
While the great Indian middle class obsesses with cricket and corruption, an epic three-way battle is unfolding in forests across the country. It is time to take notice, and a stand. Because, more than anything else, the outcome of this tussle will decide India’s future