Environment

From Madrid to Baku: A chronicle of inadequate climate action at UN Conferences

Why are international measures to mitigate Climate Change so slow and ineffective?

Central Vista Project: SC bars Centre from construction, allows paperwork and foundation stone ceremony

SG Tushar Mehta undertook that no construction, demolition or cutting of trees will be carried out

Goa: Environmental groups call on political parties to protect generational resource inheritance

The GMM manifesto aims to protect natural resources and wealth for future generations in an economically beneficial manner

Goa Foundation reconsiders its stand on the mining auction announcement:  Victory at last?

After initial celebrations, environmental action group takes a step back to consider the real benefits of the auctioning of mining leases

Dahanu locals reject JNPT survey that pushes for a new port at Vadhavan

Women, children, workers, adivasis, farmers, all gathered at the shores of Shankhodar beach to oppose the biodiversity survey by the JNPT

Goa government considers auctioning 88 halted iron ore mining leases

After two years of halt, the state government finally blows the dust off the dormant mining leases and considers auctioning

Unique anti-Adani protest stops play during AUSvIND cricket match!

The cricket fans, and #StopAdani supporters have managed to catch the millions of eyeballs to against $1B loan to “Adani’s climate wrecking coal mine”

State governments discourage bursting of firecrackers for Diwali this year

Adopting different methods, Haryana government imposes a firecracker ban across the state, while Maharashtra government appeals to people’s civic sense.

Will the firecracker ban go up in smoke, come Diwali?

Delhi-NCR, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Odisha and Karnataka have banned selling, bursting firecrackers to curb severe air pollution

Development as Disaster

Impact of various industrial, defence, developmental and infrastructural projects on people and environment in Assam

Goa’s People say NO to Coal

A strong people’s movement is underway that is asking probing questions: Why is Goa embracing Coal and destroying forests in violation of our Paris treaty obligations?

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