Meghalaya’s ‘mawsmai’ caves: speleologists map the longest cave system in South Asia
Speleologists have now mapped more than 1,700 caves in Meghalaya, including the Krem Puri — a…
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Category: Environment & Climate
Rivers, forests, wildlife and the climate crisis on the front line.
Nagaland’s Khonoma: the village that banned hunting and became a sanctuary
Khonoma, the Angami village that banned hunting in 2004, is proof that conservation can be an…
Assam’s ‘bee corridors’: how the state’s farmers are betting on pollinators
Along the paddy fields of Nagaon district, small wooden boxes are changing the arithmetic of farming:…
The Dong tribe’s solar experiment: power for Arunachal’s most remote valley
Dong, the village that claims India’s first sunrise, is running a quiet experiment: a micro-grid of…
Sikkim’s cardamom farmers brace for a changing spice market
Large cardamom — the ‘queen of spices’ that built Sikkim’s hillside economy — is facing its…
The Tipaimukh question: why a dam on the Barak keeps resurfacing in regional politics
The proposed Tipaimukh dam on the Barak river has resurfaced in regional politics, a decade after…
Assam’s ‘mising’ river culture: floating houses and the art of living with water
The Mising people, who migrated to Assam’s river plains centuries ago, have perfected a way of…
Gangtok’s waste problem: a hill capital fights its own landfill
Gangtok, a city built on a hillside with no room for sprawling landfills, is in a…
The Idu Mishmi’s sacred groves: how Arunachal’s forests keep their own laws
The Idu Mishmi people of the Dibang valley hold certain forests sacred — places where hunting,…
Mizoram’s river turtles: a community hatchery brings a rare species back
The softshell turtles of Mizoram’s river systems, once hunted to the edge of disappearance, are making…