Inside the Revival of a Garbage-Choked Canal in Tamil Nadu With 20000 Mangrove Plants

Inside the Revival of a Garbage-Choked Canal in Tamil Nadu With 20000 Mangrove Plants

There is a familiar frame that runs through documentaries on India’s environmental crisis. It shows canals thick with plastic, water barely visible beneath layers of waste, banks lined with what cities have thrown away, plastic bottles, house waste, polythene bags.  When the camera lingers on such scenes, a certain discomfort kicks in, but it goes away once the scene moves on.  A  three-kilometre stretch of the Buckingham Canal in Tamil Nadu’s C…

After 25 years of reforestation, once-barren landscapes are now absorbing millions of tons of CO annually

The Punjab reported Where wind once scraped over bare, cracked soil, there’s now a low, continuous whisper of leaves rubbing against each other. The air feels heavier, cooler, like someone turned down the brightness on a harsh world. Men and women walk along a dusty track flanked by young trunks, some no thicker than a wrist, others already casting generous shade. A boy in a faded football shirt stretches out his hand and touches a leaf, almost …