A lawyer and his neighbour start clearing a Mumbai beach
Mumbai lawyer Afroz Shah and an elderly neighbour began picking up rubbish on Versova Beach in 2015; weekly volunteer clean-ups grew into a long-running citizen movement.
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Slowing meltwater to store ice for spring sowing in Ladakh
Retired engineer Chewang Norphel builds low-cost 'artificial glaciers' that freeze winter stream water near Ladakhi villages so it melts in time for spring sowing.
The teenager who began planting bamboo on a bare sandbar
Since 1979 Jadav Payeng has planted and tended trees on an eroded Brahmaputra sandbar in Assam, growing a forest now known as Molai.
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