Environment
How a Kutch village turned a dry lake into a year-round water bank
Desilting, a ring of check dams and a strict village rulebook brought back a lake that had been dry for most of the last two decades.
Kabir Sethi2 min read
Kabir Sethi
Environment Editor
Kabir covers water, forests and climate adaptation. He is happiest knee-deep in a restored wetland with a notebook.
Stories by Kabir
Rural India
The seed library keeping 300 heirloom rice varieties alive
Farmers borrow a kilo of seed and return two after harvest. A simple rule has saved varieties that had nearly disappeared.
Kabir Sethi1 min read
Environment
Students in Nagaland built a bus shelter from 12,000 plastic bottles
A class project turned into a village landmark, and a plan to clear plastic from the river that runs below the school.
Kabir Sethi1 min read
Environment
Why one Kerala beach town has almost no plastic on its shore
A deposit on every bottle, fishermen paid to bring back plastic from the sea, and a town that decided not to wait for a rule.
Kabir Sethi1 min read
VideoEnvironment
Fishermen in the Sundarbans are planting mangroves to protect their own homes
After two cyclones in three years, a fishing community has planted 2 lakh mangrove saplings along its most exposed embankments.
Kabir Sethi1 min read