environmentalists

This International Day of Forests, meet eight Indian forest crusaders who are striving every day to save our thriving green covers.

Way before the climate crisis came into discussion, there were a few farsighted people who understood the implications of human activities and worked selflessly towards conserving nature. Here are three such individuals.

Pune-based environmentalists Dr Medha Tadpatrikar and Shirish Phadtare have developed a solution that converts plastic waste into poly fuel. Watch this video to see how they do it.

Manya Harsha, a 10-year-old environmentalist from Bengaluru, has made eco-friendly paper from vegetable peels with these five easy steps.

“I remember once an 18-year-old boy was taken by his father and brother to hunt a tiger. The turn of events put him in the front line with the tiger.” What happened next could have changed the teenager's life.

Juggling his job in an MNC, this hardworking farmer’s son utilises his after-work hours and weekends to breathe fresh life into Noida’s lakes. The kind of hero India truly needs!

As the year comes to an end, we take this opportunity to shed light on some of these young champs, whose selfless actions and visionary initiatives made the country take notice.

Credited with recovering 130 acres of forest land from private encroachments, Ravindra Kumar's unceremonious transfer orders had evoked strong protests from citizens activists!

This new proposed amendment would allow the authorities to cut these trees without any public consultation, and without seeking permission from the appropriate body.

Mangar Bani, a 677-acre patch of green between polluted New Delhi and rapidly urbanising Gurgaon, has been a battlefield between environmentalists and builders - with the environmentalists finally winning!