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Ishan Kukreti
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The world’s most expensive fungus is sparking a crisis in the Himalayas
Residents of the Kumaon once earned lakhs from selling caterpillar fungus. But the rush to collect it has left the Uttarakhand mountains denuded.
Ishan Kukreti
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Why elephants thriving in Karnataka’s coffee estates isn’t good news
Changes in landscape and climate are fuelling human-animal conflict in the region. There are no easy solutions in sight.
Ishan Kukreti
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Why India’s heatwave holds lessons for the world
A global wheat crisis has made the world pay attention to India’s scorching temperatures. But more needs to be done to make agriculture climate resilient.
Ishan Kukreti
Trending
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Why many young Muslims are leaving India
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Romila Thapar: ‘The rights of citizenship have faded’
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Bilkis Bano gangrape: 11 men sentenced to life imprisonment released from jail
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‘What’s behind the flag?’: India’s cartoonists prompt a laugh on the country’s 75th Independence Day
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Indian football: Fifa suspends AIFF, throwing U-17 Women’s World Cup in doubt
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How to cheat forest dwellers of their rights (and enable mining)
Odisha rejected around 80,000 forest dwellers’ claims over forest land as the country was battered by Covid-19. Many rejections were done on dubious grounds.
Ishan Kukreti
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How climate change is making India’s big dams dangerous
Designed in the 1970s, for the atmospheric realities of that time, these dams are ill-equipped for the dramatic changes in India’s rainfall patterns.
Ishan Kukreti
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From tiger to snow leopard: 50 years of conservation science in India
For decades, conservation efforts in the country treated humans as encroachers in forests. Gradually, that has been changing.
Ishan Kukreti
Video
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Watch: Kannada film actors have made a new music video for India’s national song ‘Vande Mataram’
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‘Vijayi Vishwa Tiranga Pyara’: 1938 song composed for the freedom movement gets new rendition
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‘We don’t hate for long’: Jawaharlal Nehru on the UK during impromptu press conference in 1953
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Watch: Migratory bird makes emergency landing because of heat, police saves it in China
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Watch: Arvind Kejriwal’s speech accidentally played at BJP’s ‘tiranga yatra’ in Gujarat
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India’s ghost plantations in which millions of rupees have been sunk
A massive government programme seeks to plant trees to make up for loss of forests and to act as carbon sinks. But many of these plantations simply don’t exist.
Ishan Kukreti
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Comfort zone: In one-way conversations with great writers of non-fiction and sci-fi
In these unsettling times, Scroll.in staffers reveal the activities in which they find calm – and even joy.
Ishan Kukreti
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The backstory: Getting lost in an MP jungle at night left me petrified – but brought a key insight
An environment reporter researching a story about a diamond mine takes a few wrong turns.
Ishan Kukreti
The Reel
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Deepa Mehta’s ‘Earth’ is a reminder of lines arbitrarily drawn between countries and hearts
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Watch: ‘Pippa’ teaser is out, release date set for December 2
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Does Netflix series ‘The Sandman’ make your every comic-loving dream come true?
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‘The Legend of Maula Jatt’ trailer: Fawad Khan leads reboot of a Pakistani classic
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Start the week with a film: Get a much-needed dose of ‘Gandhigiri’ with ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’
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How not to develop a hill station
Dehradun was once a pristine town dotted with canals and fruit orchards. Today, it is choked and polluted, testament to a colossal failure of urban planning.
Ishan Kukreti
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Nine weekend reads on why the Glasgow climate conference is make or break for the planet
Cacth up what happened at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Ishan Kukreti
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Explainer: What Modi promised at the COP26 climate change meet – and what that means for India
However, with dilutions in environmental laws at home, ambitious announcements abroad will not go far in fighting the climate crisis.
Ishan Kukreti
The Field
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Cincinnati Masters: Murray beats Wawrinka in three sets; Rybakina, Anisimova through to second round
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Ultimate Kho Kho: Mumbai Khiladis earn first victory of season; winning start for Odisha Juggernauts
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Premier League: Luis Diaz rescues a point for Liverpool after Darwin Nunez sent off on home debut
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Indian football: Fifa suspends AIFF, throwing U-17 Women’s World Cup in doubt
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Davis Cup: Nadal rested for Spain’s group stage matches, Zverev included in German squad