India
The Fight to Save the Tiger
The great cat is disappearing throughout its range because of habitat loss and illegal hunting, but an innovative scientist in India may have discovered a way to avert extinction
April 2012 |
By Phil McKenna
A Debate Over The Best Way to Protect the Tiger
Experts battle each other over a $350 million plan to keep the tiger from becoming extinct
April 2012 |
By Phil McKenna
How to Save the Taj Mahal?
A debate rages over preserving the awe-inspiring, 350-year-old monument that now shows signs of distress from pollution and shoddy repairs
September 2011 |
By Jeffrey Bartholet
The Ancient Architecture of Fatehpur Sikri
Abandoned for centuries, the Indian site attracts tourists from around the world for its majestic buildings
July 28, 2011 |
By T.A. Frail
Glimpses of the Lost World of Alchi
Threatened Buddhist art at a 900-year-old monastery high in the Indian Himalayas sheds light on a fabled civilization
April 2010 |
By Jeremy Kahn
Saving Punjab
A Sikh architect is helping to preserve cultural sites in the north Indian state still haunted by 1947’s heart-wrenching Partition
September 2009 |
By Geoffrey C. Ward
The Holy City of Varanasi
Tourists and pilgrims flock to Varanasi, a sacred Hindu city on the banks of the Ganges River
August 20, 2009 |
By Anika Gupta
Endangered Site: Jaisalmer Fort, India
The famed fort has withstood earthquakes and sandstorms for a millenia, but now shifts and crumbles
March 2009 |
By Anika Gupta
Q and A With the Rhino Man
Wildlife biologist Hemanta Mishra's efforts to save the endangered Indian rhinoceros
March 01, 2008 |
By Sarah Zielinski
Restoring the Taj Mahal
This year, millions of tourists will visit the marble monument—and the Indian government is restoring it for millions more
January 2008 |
By Kathleen Burke
A Prayer for the Ganges
Across India, environmentalists battle a tide of troubles to clean up a river revered as the source of life
November 2007 |
By Joshua Hammer
India in Peril
Rakesh Jaiswal, founder of ecofriends.org, talks about the country's growing list of environmental problems
October 31, 2007 |
By Nicole Wroten
The Vanishing
Little noticed by the outside world, perhaps the most dramatic decline of a wild animal in history has been taking place in India and Pakistan. Large vultures, vitally necessary and once numbering in the tens of millions, now face extinction. But why?
February 2007 |
By Susan McGrath
India's Holiest City
At Varanasi, Hindu pilgrims come to pray—and to die—along the sacred Ganges River
February 01, 2007 |
By Whitney Dangerfield
Building An Arc
Despite poachers, insurgents and political upheaval, India and Nepal's bold approach to saving wildlife in the Terai Arc just may succeed.
July 2006 |
By John Seidensticker and Susan Lumpkin
The Power of Prayer
A news photographer in India captures a devotional moment that goes back a thousand years
March 2006 |
By Maura Moynihan
Young Eyes on Calcutta
British documentary filmmaker Zana Briski and collaborator Ross Kauffman's Academy Award winning documentary chronicals the resilience and vision of children in a Calcutta red-light district
May 2005 |
By Andrew Curry
Saving the Raja's Horse
British horsewoman Francesca Kelly brings India's fiery Marwari to the United States in hopes of reviving the breed
June 2004 |
By Jason Overdorf
