Environment

Kerala's Meenangadi is using 'Tree Banking' to become carbon-neutral by 2025. This scheme pays farmers to plant and maintain trees, ensuring a steady income while also benefitting the environment.

Starting with one sapling at a time, these conservationists are ensuring that India's deltas and coasts are filled with lakhs of mangrove trees, strengthening them against floods and cyclones.

Green activist Subhajit Mukherjee advocates for greywater reuse at home, explaining how setting up a filtration tank for just Rs 10,000 can conserve fresh water and alleviate urban water shortages.

Reva Jhingan Malik, a resident of Bengaluru, uses solar energy to cook all her meals. She explains how she replaced an LPG stove with a solar cooker to move towards sustainable practices.

Worried about the planet’s future, Akshat Shah and Shubh Mehta launched ‘Change Is Us’ in Mumbai when they were in Class 12.

Once areas of deforestation, litter, and heavy tourist influx, villages like Majuli, Yana, Nako, and Piplantri now exemplify sustainable practices.

The new Government must rebuild trust by being tolerant to ideas, opinions and information. It needs to strengthen ground-level institutions because participatory democracy can ensure development delivery. In this age of climate risk, the Government also needs to re-engineer development to make it inclusive, affordable and sustainable.

Here are 5 Indian children who are working to fight climate change and making earth greener.

Several myths surround the idea of utlising solar energy in buildings and homes. Time to get the facts straight!

Meet eight inspiring Indians who are transforming cities with more trees, helping to reduce urban heat and create greener environments. Here’s how their efforts are making a difference.