Environment: Himalayas, Water And Many Other Things
These posts will dwell on environment, water, climate change, forests, air pollution, Himalayas and basically anything and everything that our atmosphere has
China and India together account for over 2.8 billion disaster-affected people between 2000-2019, approximately 70% of the global total, as per the latest UNDRR report. But are India’s Disaster Risk …
Disaster Management: Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) yet to be implemented for whole of India Read More
Bamboo is one of the most sustainable and environment-friendly materials to build a structure with a negative carbon impact A tony bamboo house installed near the open lawns at the …
Bamboo, the builder Read More
Seven cities and towns in India along the Ganga river have been identified by the NatGeo expedition as hotspots generating most plastic waste that goes into the Ganga and onward …
Women’s journey for identifying plastic waste hotspots along the Ganga Read More
After crossing the beautiful Sela Pass at more than 13,000 feet altitude, we had embarked on the winding road to Tawang. Minutes after, I started visualizing the picturesque Tawang monastery, …
Homing in on sustainable tourism Read More
Under the aegis of NABARD and PMKSY, a Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF) worth Rs 5,000 crore was set up in May 2018. Chhindwara, MP: ‘The Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana …
‘More Crop Per Drop’: How PM Krishi Yojana is Making Agricultural Land More Productive Read More
Farmers Shanti and her husband Buddhman Singh, who has successfully experimented with growing capsicum using drip irrigation in open in village Bisapur Kalan in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh. (Image …
The Secret Formula of Madhya Pradesh Farmers Who Now Own Credit Cards and Cars Read More
Ginger not only adds some spice to Indian food but is also an important medicinal plant. A Kerala botanist has discovered two new species of ginger in the biodiversity hotpsot …
Kerala botanist discovers two new ginger species in Arunachal Read More
Catching the rain where it falls and storing it in lakes and waterbodies seem to be the only viable option for parched cities A NITI Ayog report in 2018 placed …
Save urban lakes to tide over water related problems Read More
Nivedita Khandekar Come Vasant (the spring) and one remembers the flamboyant Palash (Butea monosperma, popular also as Tesu, Dhak or Flame of Forest). Though now-a-days its quite a rare tree …
My Encounter With #Palash Read More
The winter crop acreage across India has gone down substantially because of a lack of rain, but especially in Marathwada region Farmers in several districts of the western Indian state …
Maharashtra farmers face poor winter harvest after failed rains Read More