Weekend Warm-Up: How One Extraordinary Man Planted a Forest Bigger Than Central Park
At 550 hectares, Majuli is the world’s largest river island. If that phrase conjures the image of a jungly outcrop garlanded with sandy banks, it should — that’s how this island in in extreme eastern India used to look. But decades of population growth and erosion along the mighty Brahmaputra River wreaked havoc on the […]