Environment

Steps Towards Sustainability: MP villages show how water conservation improves quality of life, and quickly

Experiments with bunds and dohas to arrest rain water flow has rejuvenated lands making villages in Shivpuri district, MP, fit for agriculture and grazing

Forest Conservation Act: GoI suggests fundamental changes Act, despite widespread objections

The changes recommended by the MoEFCC nullify many environmental clearances required for non-forest activities by private organisations; gov't extends deadline to Nov 1

UN resolution calls right to clean, healthy and sustainable environment a Human Right

UN HRC also establishes Special Rapporteur to examine impact of Climate Change on Human Rights

Climate change policies will never work until Adivasis are included: AIUFWP Roma Malik

Experts call for inclusion of Adivasi groups in national policies to effectively address climate change

Under the shadow of coal mining

Jharkhand Adivasis struggling to survive amidst rampant coal dumping, forcible land acquisition and displacement; environmental concerns and people’s health ignored with impunity

A misguided attempt to revive Coal

How India can divert attention to other cleaner and sustainable energy sources to reduce dependence on the fossil fuel

Assam rocked by earthquake, people left vulnerable amidst Covid-19

Quake measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale had its epicenter in Dhekiajuli in Sonitpur district

Why is Kerala concerned about the Centre’s ESZ notification?

While environmentalists celebrate the new transition zones between cities and state wildlife sanctuaries, local residents worry about continuing their livelihoods

Centre’s new policies violate the National Mineral Policy 2019: Goa Foundation

The group asked the state to act against the new policies that allow the Centre to sell off minerals, ignoring India’s federal structure, and usurp a state’s power to grant mining leases

Punished the Glacier

A satirical piece in wake of the Uttarakhand tragedy, examining how blame is assigned, even in cases of natural disasters

Around 170 still missing in the tragedy in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli

14 people were killed, after a  glacier break at Joshimath triggered massive flooding of the Alaknanda and Dhauliganga rivers

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