Moushumi Basu

Contributor at Thomson Reuters Foundation

Moushumi Basu is a freelance contributor for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, writing on environmental issues from India.

Recent Articles

Rescue teams from the local disaster management committee in Majdolopa village use rafts made of banana stalks to help stranded villagers during flooding in northeast India

People Doing Good

In Response to Fierce Floods Ravaging India, Local Helpers Come to the Rescue

With homemade rafts and plastic-bottle life jackets, teams of young villagers save stranded locals when the Brahmaputra River bursts its banks.

Using biogas digesters to turn organic waste into electricity, communities are slashing their power bills as they cut climate-changing emissions

Waste to Watts: India is Generating Green Energy From Food Leftovers

Using biogas digesters to turn organic waste into electricity, communities are slashing their power bills as they cut climate-changing emissions.