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    Rainmatter on the Road: A ‘sense of the house’ in Jharkhand

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    10 Mar 2023

    Below is Vikas’ account as he travels to three regions in Jharkhand and asks residents about their relationship to their ‘home’, pokes at the changing aspirations of rural India, and wond...

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    Nature Conservation Foundation: Redefining conservation in a changing world

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    03 Mar 2023

    The climate crisis manifests differently across different regions. Its impact on varying wildscapes and species can take any form ranging from glacial melt in the snowy Ladakh, to the bleaching of ...

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    Turning two on a planetary timescale

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    20 Feb 2023

      Two years is but a blip in the history of our planet. The Rainmatter Foundation is past the two-year mark. That day came and went, and we were unsure if we ought to make an announcement or d...

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    Anāja – News digest for October 2022

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    05 Nov 2022

    ਅਨਾਜ Anāja; Punjabi (Cereal/grain) Photos: Nandhu Kumar/Unsplash We are passing through a period of transition. As the Southwest monsoon takes leave from the Indian subcontinent, the khari...

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    Shaharee paaristhitikee – News digest for September 2022

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    12 Oct 2022

    शहरी पारिस्थितिकी (Shaharee paaristhitikee, Hindi) Urban ecology Rainbow Drive layout in Bangalore was one of the flood-affected areas this August and September. Pho...

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    Barf ka toda – News digest for August 2022

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    10 Sep 2022

    برف کا تودہ (Barf ka toda, Urdu) Glacier Photo by Ahmed Radwan/ Unsplash From heatwaves and shrinking rivers to parched fields and monstrous floods, the world witnessed extreme events thro...

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    Bānapānī – Digest for July 2022

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    03 Aug 2022

    বানপানী  (Bānapānī, Assamese) Flood Photo by David Talukdar/Unsplash In the words of the Adi people, it is a river “that flows through our heart,” chronicles Aarti Kumar-Rao i...

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    Zemli – Digest for Feb 2022

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    13 Mar 2022

    землі (zemli, Ukrainian; land) ‘Take these seeds and put them in your pockets so at least sunflowers will grow when you all lie down here.’ The context for these words is what makes them p...

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    Chatrāka – Digest for January 2022

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    15 Feb 2022

    Why did the mushroom walk into the bar? To expand its network! Jokes aside, fungi networks are so vital that they are termed the “circulatory system of the planet”. Fungi can colonise, multiply...

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    Hyun – Digest for Dec 2021

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    24 Jan 2022

    हयों (Garhwali: Hyun; Snow) A huge shout out to the Waste Warriors and Linger teams for this digest’s title. There are dozens of words for snow and snowflakes: Qanik (snow falling; Inuit/...

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