China Is Tapping Tibetan Glaciers To Meet Growing Demand For Bottled Water

Driven both by convenience and concerns about the country's widespread pollution, the Chinese drank nearly 10.6 billion gallons of bottled water in 2013, the Hong Kong-base...

Snow Leopards At Risk As Himalayas Face Climate Change 'Crisis'

Warming temperatures could cause the tree line to shift up the mountains and cause farmers to plant crops and graze livestock at higher altitudes, squeezing the snow leopar...

Education Key To Gender Equality: Kalki Koechlin

Kalki Koechlin, who has joined hands with the P&G Shiksha programme, says education is the key for gender equality. “I was never a front bencher. I was very bad a...

A Sound Economy Needs A Sound Environment

Going by our Intelligence Bureau (IB) and some of the voices in the government, anyone asking for the protection of the country’s forests, its rivers or its coasts is...

Bold messages from Bollywood in an era of intolerance

Until this year, the line of dialogue that for me best encapsulated India’s mix of chaos and tolerance was not from a contemporary Bollywood film but a four-year-old ...

Director Goran Paskaljevic announces his next film, ‘Dev Bhoomi’, the first Indo-Serbian co-production

~ Starring Victor Banerjee, ‘Dev Bhoomi’ is set in Garhwal, Uttarakhand ~

~ After a series of lo...

Indian scientist Kamal Bawa gets Midori Prize in Biodiversity

Indian scientist Kamal Bawa, a distinguished professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, has won the 2014 Midori Prize in Biodiversity for his resear...

Climate Change and Kashmir’s Water Security

As blood is to body, water is to life. Have we ever contemplated from where the water comes to the tap in our kitchens and bathrooms? Have we pondered that there is a direc...

Green lore

Environment has been intrinsic to our oral traditions much before we developed writing. But it is only in the past decade or two that environmental literature has become ma...