In this issue

THE (H) EAT IS ON : Can we reduce carbon footprint of our diet?

Gated farming societies

An agritech startup in Bengaluru is helping city dwellers own and manage farms for long-term wealth benefits

2 mins

Fungal attack in apple orchards across the valley

WIDESPREAD FUNGAL infection is set to hit apple production in Kashmir this season.

1 min

2020 Endless Fallouts

COVID-19 has turned the clock back in terms of global health and development indices. The recovery will be long and arduous for a world facing climate change on an unprecedented scale. Indicators are already there that the year ahead will be turbulent

5 mins

Collateral damage

India’s latest plan to save its vultures from dying due to drugs used on cattle offers little hope

3 mins

The great discontent

Farmers delivered the country’s historic harvest bucking the pandemic in 2020. But the year also broke all records of their protests as they demand fair price and access to markets

3 mins

Question Of Ecological Identity

ISHAN KUKRETI speaks to a legislator, an anthropologist and legal experts to make sense of this simmering debate

5 mins

SHRINKING WORLD OF CHANGPAS

The Changpas are trans-Himalayan nomads. For ages, they have roamed the Changthang region of southeastern Ladakh, cut off from the world. Some accounts say they travelled across the Himalayas to arrive here around the 8th century. Located at an altitude of 4,500 metres, life in this arid, vast and rugged plateau is hard. Winters are very long, summers short and vegetation scarce. As a result, the Changpas have led a pastoral life. They rear Changthangi goat, from whose under coat comes the famous pashmina wool. The goats graze on the mountainsides, feeding on seasonal grasses. The weather, however, has changed in the past few decades. The winters and summers are warmer, and there is a perceptive decline in precipitation and snowfall between November and March. This has drastically reduced the size of the grazing grounds and the Changpas now have to shift locations more frequently. RITAYAN MUKHERJEE captures the changing lifestyle of the Changpas

1 min

Sting operation

One of India’s worst malaria-affected districts, Malkangiri in Odisha, is on its way to win the fight against this scourge

4 mins

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