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Once A Dropout, Anita Munda Now Dreams Of Becoming An Officer

A unique education programme in Odisha's tribal belt helps underprivileged children join the government school network. Deep in the sal forests that hide the iron and alloy...

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Gender

Hit Hard By Climate Change, Rural Women In Sundarbans Turn Photographers

In the Bengali language ‘Sundarban’ can be literally translated as ‘beautiful forest’. A World Heritage Site, the area is the largest block of conti...

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Human Rights

Chhattisgarh Communities Assert Forest Rights

Members of the Sanauli gram sabha show the woods chopped down by the Chattisgarh Van Vikas Nigam Credit: Shruti Agarwal A small Gond village in Rajnandgoan district of Chha...

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Environment

Why Climate Change Could Benefit Parts Of Canada’s Boreal Forest

Fact, he argues that Quebec’s massive boreal forest could provide a much-needed “refuge” for plants and animals, as much of the continent gets hotter and ...

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Environment

Norway Will Stop Using Products From Deforestation

Oil-rich Norway is taking a big step in saving tropical rainforests that are crucial to absorbing the world's carbon emissions. The Scandinavian country has become the firs...

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Environment

Australia Scrubbed From UN Climate Change Report After Government Intervention

Every reference to Australia was scrubbed from the final version of a major UN report on climate change after the Australian government intervened, objecting that the infor...

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Environment

Twenty Percent Of The World's Plants Could Go Extinct — And It's Not Just From Climate Change

With the human population fast approaching 8 billion, human beings are leveling forests, clearing savannas, and transforming entire landscapes to make way for industrial-sc...

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Environment

The Future Of The Frog Looks Bleak; Unless Humans Change

Amphibians, the oldest group of land vertebrates, are regarded as themost threatened across the globe. From Brazil’s tropical rain forests, to Canada’s temperat...

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Human Rights

These Indian Women Said They Could Protect Their Local Forests Better Than The Men In Their Village. The Men Agreed.

The Women Of Ghunduri bandi, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, have taken over the taskof guarding the forest they’ve used for generations from intruders and ill...

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Environment

Former Dacoits Meet In Jaipur To Protect Vanishing Forests

On the eve of International Day of Forests on Sunday, erstwhile bandits who ruled Chambal gathered in Jaipur to reminisce, and to tell the government that they wish to prot...

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