A Chipko pioneer warns against destructive development, linking climate crisis, forest rights, and people’s movements. Learn why grassroots action matters.

Fifty years ago this week, Gaura Devi, an ordinary woman from a nondescript village in India, hugged a tree, using her body as a shield to stop the tree from being cut down. Little did she know that ...

It has been six decades since the first protests for environmentalism, yet society is still headed in a downward spiral that seems to end us at a point of no return. Although that may be how most ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This blog was originally posted on Asia Unbound. Krithi Karanth is Chief ...