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Ecology and Environment
Natural resource management through a gender lens
Posted on 21 Jan, 2021 05:16 PMBuilding upon decades of international diplomatic relations and scientific research, the United Nations adopted the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ in 2015.
![In incorporating female participation, some programmes only added (futile) burden on these women without challenging the current division of labour. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/Woman_harvesting_wheat_Raisen_district%2C_Madhya_Pradesh.jpg?itok=VnTn-5OZ)
Ecosystem-based approach: The case of Meghalaya
Posted on 18 Jan, 2021 01:55 PMCommunities have been adapting to climate variability for centuries
![A living root bridge, a type of simple suspension bridge formed of living plant roots by tree shaping in village Nongriat, Meghalaya (Image: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/800px-Living_root_bridges%2C_Nongriat_village%2C_Meghalaya2.jpg?itok=vRG43sGw)
Should we bet more on historians than engineers to sort flooding?
Posted on 04 Jan, 2021 12:00 AMRaging floods swarming great expanses have been a common occurrence in the 21st century in South Asia.
![Need to consider the perspective of the historians who see floods as a naturally occurring event. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/Flood_in_odisha_india.jpg?itok=NdrjVafc)
Study using geo-tagged bottles unravels plastic pollution
Posted on 09 Dec, 2020 04:53 PMPlastic pollution can travel thousands of kilometres in just a few months, finds new study using geo-tagged bottles
![Plastic pollution by a river (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-12/2935403892_ba0f30ab05_c.jpg?itok=pGD_b1hY)
Not in the interest of women farmers!
Posted on 07 Dec, 2020 11:52 PMThree farm-related Bills were recently passed in the Parliament by the BJP led government at the Center, which have subsequently received presidential assent.
![Farm women, overworked and underpaid (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farm_women2.jpg?itok=FYXAb8hD)
Sustainable mobility amid COVID-19 pandemic
Posted on 01 Dec, 2020 10:19 PMMost of the travel demand in the Indian cities is met by the non-motorized and public transport systems i.e. low carbon modes of transport. With the growing urbanization and income levels along with the degraded infrastructure to support the low carbon modes, the dependency on personal motorized vehicles will increase soon.
![Though during the COVID-19 lockdown, people’s interest for non-motorised transport has witnessed a rise, the lack of infrastructure such as separate cycle tracks etc. among other reasons is likely to adversely affect this. (Image: Needpix)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-12/cycle.jpg?itok=XRDw9ojp)
Meghalaya villages join hands to save environment and bolster women empowerment
Posted on 20 Nov, 2020 04:24 AMLangsymphut village in Meghalaya has ample water now. Gone are the days when the water starved village was barren with its streams dying a slow death. And that too when it is located only 22 kilometres away from Mawsynram village, known to be one of the wettest places on earth!
![Water collected at a mega dam in a village in Meghalaya (Image Source: KM-MBDA)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-11/Meghalaya2.jpg?itok=lNreF9vV)
World Toilet Day 2020: Safe fecal disposal key to sustainable sanitation
Posted on 19 Nov, 2020 11:57 AMUN emphasises the need for safe faecal disposal this WTD2020
![Fecal sludge management key to safe sanitation (Source: CS Sharada Prasad)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-11/01_csp2091.jpg?itok=hAtrjL8C)
What India needs for effective waste management in times of the pandemic
Posted on 04 Nov, 2020 08:35 PM
![Image: Roksana Helscher, Pixabay](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-11/corona-5340991_960_720.jpg?itok=njH9XEil)
Women hold the key to dietary diversity
Posted on 17 Oct, 2020 04:04 PMEvidence world over shows that small scale agricultural production does very little to deal with malnutrition and food insecurity among rural poor.
![Empowering women to improve nutritional outcomes (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farm_1.jpg?itok=-i5AcI6P)