On May 21, 2021, Sunderlal Bahuguna passed away from COVID-19 at the age of 94. His passing didn’t make the news in any of the major outlets in the US. But it got extensive coverage in India. Bahugana ...

Classical Indian music trickled through Faculty Glade where more than a dozen students, faculty members and Berkeley residents gathered Friday for a midday rally. Passing students paused to admire red ...

Drawing inspiration from the historic Chipko Movement, women and children hugged the trees to symbolise their love for nature and demand for environmentally responsible development In a peaceful and ...

Environmental activists have decried the plan as unnecessary and illogical, warning of a revived 'Chipko' movement to prevent the felling. The trees in question are now at the heart of an emerging ...

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is set to cut down around 1,400 fully grown green trees in Pilibhit, lining an 8-km stretch of the Bhind–Lipulekh highway that passes through ...

These are supposed to be axed for an overhead water tank project The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by ...

Women around the world have had to defend the natural resources their communities depend upon. In this web exclusive video, learn why the Indian women of the Chipko Movement became known as tree ...

Residents of New Delhi, India’s capital, have come out in protest against the proposed felling of more than 16,000 trees for a project to build housing for government officials. Many of these trees ...

Few mountain communities remain untouched by the influence of globalization. Until just 30 years ago, the village of Jardhar in Garhwal, India, in the middle Himalaya led an isolated existence, living ...

Over three decades, the Chipko Movement travelled from a quiet Garhwal village to the corridors of power, and eventually even helped shape the demand for a separate Uttarakhand state. Chipko and its ...