From sapling to supari: On the areca nut trail in semi-arid Karnataka
Tanvi Agrawal The News Minute | January 3, 2022 Over time, areca nut has become one of the key cash crops of Karnataka, and semi-arid and arid regions are digging increasingly deep borewells to sustain this water-guzzling crop.
How India’s Unguided Quest for Solar Energy is Bringing About Ecological and Cultural Erasure
M.D. Madhusudan, Abi T. Vanak The Hindu | January 1, 2022 At the recently concluded COP26 in Glasgow, India proclaimed on the global stage that by 2030, it would elevate its renewable power capacity to 500 GW from 150 GW today, and that it would meet 50% of its energy requirements from renewable energy. Even […]
Mapping the Potential of Community Forest Resource Rights in Central India
Sharachchandra Lele, Shruti Mokashi Mongabay | October 11, 2021 The provisions of the Forest Rights Act 2006 (FRA) relating to Community Forest Resource (CFR) rights have the potential to transform forest governance in India by decentralising forest management power to gram sabhas. However, their implementation has not been effective. ATREE researchers used Census data, maps, […]
What drives flowering, fruiting in Sikkim’s rhododendrons?
The Hindu | 16 February, 2019 Neems are in bloom and mango trees fruiting in many parts of India now, but what determines such seasonal changes? At least, in the Sikkim Himalaya temperature, day length and genetic relatedness between species determine when rhododendrons put out their first buds, flowers and fruits, finds a new study.
