Women hug trees to protect them against felling - The Chipko movement of the 1980's was the first major environmental campaign in India

Traditional worship of a tulsi (basilicum) plant

Cutting and selling firewood is often the last option for the poor to survive

Massive stocks of bamboo at a paper mill in Assam

Trees have to make way for cars

The steep slopes of the Himalayas are prone to landslides

Construction of roads and huge dams in the Himalayas cause man-made landslides

After heavy monsoon showers water is released from a reservoir

Most rivers are polluted by the release of untreated effluents

Effluents from chemical factories turn a rivulet red

Many cities are covered with a thick blanket of smog

Rural folks protest against their displacement for industries

Protests agains India's atomic bomb tests in 1998