A new book shows how misguided decisions have pushed endangered Indian landscapes to destruction

An excerpt from ‘Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink’, by Arati Kumar-Rao.

Arati Kumar-Rao

· Jun 01, 2023 · 08:30 am

Photo essay: A peek into the world of solitary bees who neither live in hives nor make honey

There are over 20,000 species of bees in the world. Most of them are solitary bees.

Arati Kumar-Rao

· Mar 13, 2021 · 01:30 pm

Gangetic dolphin's habitat lies in the path of a proposed waterway from Uttar Pradesh to West Bengal

The dredging of rivers for the construction of national waterway 1 impacts dolphins and the sound of machines impedes the nearly blind aquatic animal's hearing.

Arati Kumar-Rao

· Sep 05, 2016 · 10:30 pm

The dolphin, the fisherman and the holy river Ganga

There’s the Ganga, the fishermen who catch no fish and the dolphins that cannot be found in India’s only dolphin sanctuary.

Arati Kumar-Rao

· Aug 31, 2016 · 10:30 pm

The Paris climate change agreement was a day late and a dollar short

How the Paris accord lost its way between preamble and operative text.

Arati Kumar-Rao

· Dec 15, 2015 · 10:30 am