“In Sikkim it’s not glaciers but springs that ensure water and food security in changing climate”

In Perbing village of South Sikkim 33- year-old Phurbayangi Sherpa, backpacking her pink-cheeked 3-month-old son Rabjan in a woven bamboo carrier, remembers of times when she turned eighteen and how groups of women and...

Why Asri Hikakka may go back to studying by the kerosene lamp

RAYAGADA, India, 15 September 2013- Eight months each of the eleven Kondh tribal households in Balinaikaguda forest village got two 9-watt compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and one solar street lamp. After this, all of...