Stories

How the VISVA Sustainable Foundation is transforming events, public spaces, and everyday habits through sustainable practices and grassroots engagement

How communities are adapting to increasing floods, changing rainfall patterns, and environmental uncertainties

How Hulimavu Kere Tharanga, a community-led initiative, overcame a possible encroachment of their beloved lake

How Waatavaran is advancing community-based climate action in Maharashtra

How SEEDS is combining technology, community preparedness, and resilient infrastructure to reduce disaster risk in India

Inside SEWA's decade-long effort to replace diesel with solar in the Little Rann of Kutch, and what it means for climate justice in India's informal economy

How the women of Sundarbans are using ancient ecological knowledge to protect their communities from climate catastrophe

Inside Poovulagin Nanbargal's journey of inspiring climate awareness, defending ecological systems, and empowering communities to respond to environmental challenges in Tamil Nadu

How Madhuri Subbarao is building a citizen movement to protect Bengaluru's lakes and secure the city's water future

Parikrma Oxygen is India's first outdoor nature-based school for children from urban slums, providing an education that is rooted in the living world

Inside VOICE Trust's Sunday Agriculture School, where young people learn farming, seed conservation, and climate responsibility through hands-on experience

Behind SAICE's community-driven push for land regeneration in Puducherry and what it means for ecological balance in integral education

Inside Thuvakkam's efforts to cool Chennai through urban forests, harvest water sustainably, power schools and communities with solar energy, and uplift the city's most vulnerable

Inside Alok Shukla's decades-long fight to protect Hasdeo Aranya and the communities whose future is tied to its survival

How Kollakkayil Devaki Amma transformed adversity into environmental action, creating a lush forest that supports wildlife, water conservation, and climate resilience

Inside Usha Rajagopalan's commendable efforts in restoring Puttenahalli Lake through community mobilisation, effective policy framing, and conservation initiatives

How Adamya Chethana, a Bengaluru-based non-profit NGO, helps address climate change and environmental sustainability with its Plate Bank service

Tackling the effects of harmful emissions in the Delhi NCR region through waste management initiatives

Award winning writer to restore Puttenahalli Lake in Bengaluru

The efforts of an Engineer to restore multiple lakes in Bengaluru

Women led nature based adaptation to climate change

Story of two young climate advocates in a remote Himalayan mountains

A community run radio station for weather and climate

Story of a Social Activist in Sand Dune Conservation

A video shared by The Better India highlights the work of Gurunandan Rao, a mechanical engineer and Founder of HandsOn Foundation, who played a key role in restoring "Lalbagh Lake" using science-led, nature-first methods.

A social media video features Supriya Sahu, a senior IAS officer and key figure in Tamil Nadu's environmental governance framework, speaking about the State government's decision to notify 100 new reserved forests. The move marks a significant expansion of protected forest areas in Tamil Nadu and reflects the government's strategy to strengthen biodiversity conservation while advancing climate resilience.

Jadav Payeng, often called the "Forest Man of India," spent roughly four decades planting trees on a barren sandbar along the Brahmaputra River in Assam. What began as a personal effort to restore damaged land grew into a 1,300-acre forest now known as Molai Forest.

Dr Jayshree Vencatesan's journey didn't begin in a lab — it began in childhood, in quiet moments spent with her father, who taught her to deeply respect the natural world. That early spark lit a lifelong passion for conservation that would eventually shape her into one of India's foremost wildlife scientists.

The cultural resistance that managed to save the tamarind tree in a South Kolkata neighbourhood.

A group of tree lovers, mostly in their 70s and 80s now, has been passionately planting trees in a Kolkata locality, which now offers its own challenge to global warming. Kolkata has been listed as one of the 20 cities in the world most at risk from climate change.

In one of India's most heat-vulnerable regions, Supriya Sahu is putting in place a suite of effective cooling regulations and nature-based adaptation measures to improve the health and safety of families. Residents of Tamil Nadu's most vulnerable communities are already feeling the benefits.

Meet Nimal Raghavan, the "Lake Man of India". What began as a small effort to revive one lake after Cyclone Gaja soon turned into a nationwide movement — where volunteers, newlyweds, cricket teams, and celebrities are joining hands to restore lakes across drought-affected regions.

In a landmark step toward strengthening community-led conservation, representatives from 37 villages under Athibung sub-division, Peren district, on October 17 adopted a set of resolutions to protect and preserve the Ntangki National Park and its surrounding biodiversity.

In a region hit hard by climate change, where salinity of agricultural land has become a major concern, indigenous rice varieties could bring some respite – provided farmers have the right support.