In this issue

ON THE FRONT LINE - In a warming world, Assam’s flood season is now a year-round crisis

Water diviner

Sarjubai Meena is resolute in her mission to conserve soil and water in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district BHAGIRATH

2 mins

An Indian epidemic

Increasing number of children and adolescents in the country are developing diabetes. This will have lethal consequences

5 mins

Burden to bear

Living in the shadow of old state policies, vulnerable tribal groups demand their right to opt for family planning

3 mins

Forests in seconds

Miyawaki forests are springing up across Indian cities. Are they a way to restore urban biodiversity or just a quick-fix to achieve greenery?

6 mins

Sage advice

Plant clinics are emerging as parallel support system for farmers in resource-strapped countries

3 mins

NOT JUST ANOTHER DELUGE

In a warming world, floods are no longer an annual affair in Assam, but a year-round crisis. As people struggle to cope with the new reality, some are already changing their cropping patterns and architecture

10+ mins

Double trouble

The Union government's claim about being on track to double farmers' income sounds hollow as it has not even spent the allocated budget for agrarian schemes in three of the past five years

6 mins

Only a piglet in Russia's war on patents

Post-Ukraine, Russia has held back from appropriating intellectual property despite a law to punish unfriendly countries

4 mins

OLD DIVIDE PERSISTS

The Bonn conference was important for laying the groundwork for global climate action. But it underscored progressive dilution of climate justice

4 mins

‘Never thought I’d see octopus change colour in front of me, at Juhu beach’

A journalist and editor, SEJAL MEHTA has for the last four years walked the shores across India looking for creatures in intertidal zones—spaces explorable upon the retrieval of high tides. By virtue of traversing the sea as well the shores, the life forms found in intertidal spaces are blessed with features that appear otherworldly. In an interview with PREETHA BANERJEE, Mehta talks about her walks and the sightings that resulted in her book Superpowers on the Shore. Excerpts:

5 mins

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