In this issue

Missing - One-third of the country’s recorded forests

WHITHER AMRIT KAAL

The Union Budget 2022-23 did not talk about the developmental targets promised for this year under the Strategy for New India@75, but set the country on a new journey of hope till 2047

5 mins

Rewarding incompetence

India's new star-rating system to promote state agencies that give hasty environmental clearances to projects

5 mins

Charged up

Battery makers are moving beyond lithium to power India's clean energy ambitions

7 mins

25.87 MILLION HECTARES

That is the size of forest missing from the latest assessment of India's green cover. Does this land exist? Is it encroached upon? Or is it just degraded; so degraded that there are no forests to be counted here?

10+ mins

Natural option

Organic and natural farming approaches are not only profitable and sustainable, but also productive

6 mins

Heritage erased

Kashmir's highly fertile alluvial soil deposits called karewas are being destroyed in the name of development, much to the peril of local people

3 mins

India trips on its patent waiver proposal

Delhi has not backed its WTO proposal to suspend intellectual property rights on COVID-19 pharma products with robust action

4 mins

United they stand

Women farmers in 30 villages of Madhya Pradesh join hands to command a higher price for their groundnut produce

3 mins

Glorious oversight

ABOUT AMERICAN POP CULTURE FIXTURES AND PRIVILEGED WAY OF LIFE PRESENTED AS A REVIEW OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

3 mins

NET GAIN

In its journey to the Bay of Bengal, the Brahmaputra carves out different types of waterbodies along Assam's landscape.

3 mins

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