A widely reported assessment in Nature in 2019 revealed that in many countries, the line between plantations and restoration is blurrier than it first appears..
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, about 150 wild plant species, which are essential for many rural subsistence households, are consumed in India, Malaysia and Thailand as sources of emergency foods..
A recently released report from the World Resources Institute highlights three types of actions that can signal when transformative adaptation in agriculture is occurring, as well as examples of such changes in India..
According to the 2019 Forest Survey of India report, India’s total forest cover is 24.56 percent of the country’s total geographical area..
More research on urban green spaces, their management and links to human health is required..
Going on a camel ride ranks on the top of the bucket list of Indian tourists that escape the pre-monsoon heat of Indian cities for the cooler climes of Ladakh, India’s Union Territory nestled high up in the Himalayas..
Villagers in different parts of Gadchiroli are being given training in the sustainable honey extraction technique..
The researchers observed that mechanically removing Prosopis significantly increases native grassland plant diversity whereas lopping did not significantly increase plant diversity..
Nature-based solutions are emerging as a practical approach to address interconnected challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystems in urban areas..
India has oil palm spread over 349,000 hectares spread across 16 states and produces about one percent of its national demand..
Forest carbon storage often conflicts with the needs of both forest users and forest managers because many of India’s forestry programs are in areas overlapping customary rights over those areas by indigenous communities..
Grasslands, just like forests, are important carbon sinks and crucial for carbon sequestration..
The Remote Sensing Data Policy, 2011, released by the Department of Space, did away with the 2001 policy mandate that restricted public distribution of imagery sharper than 5.8-metre resolution..
Sterlite smelter has two oxygen-producing units but only one has been functioning since May 13..
The government states that about 95 percent of the deep ocean remains unexplored and thus the mission is crucial to ensuring India’s mineral and energy security..
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