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Ecology Before the Ballot Box
On March 11, 2026, a coalition of Kerala’s environmental organisations released ‘From Forest to Sea: People’s Environmental Charter’ and handed it to the leadership of all major political parties...
Faith v/s Environment: 17,600 trees felled in U.P. to pave way for proposed Kanwar Yatra route, fact-finding panel tells NGT
The UP govt. plans to cut 33,776 trees in total for the controversial project, says joint committee; green tribunal directs govt. to clarify if number of trees to be axed has been calculated strictly in accordance with provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Protection of Trees Act reports The Hindu
Indian Coal Giants Pushed for Lax Pollution Rules While Ramping Up Operations
Senior Journalist Akshay Deshmane exposes how giant Indian coal companies influenced the Narendra Modi led Indian government to weaken pollution regulations and expand the sector
SC: The right to be free from adverse effects of Climate Change is a fundamental right
This piece examines the often conflicting jurisprudence on indigenous peoples and the right to a safe environment and climate change
Adverse impact of climate change? 43% of farmers found half of their standing crops damaged
Climate change poses a significant threat to Indian agriculture,...
Lack of securing tribal land rights in Andhra ‘exacerbating’ vulnerability to climate change
In the tribal areas of the Eastern Ghats of...
Landslide In Wayanad Is Only The Beginning!
On the morning of July 30, a huge landslide...
Father D’Britto, the pioneer of the Harit Vasai movement, passes away at 81
Father D’Britto had authored over 50 books and was a prolific writer contributing to several Marathi newspaper
Navigating the grey: The Biodiversity Amendment Act, 2023, and the Water Conservation Act, 2024, steps towards leniency or leap into laxity?
A critical analysis of the recent environmental legislation in India
Set aside SIA of ‘unsustainable development projects in Nicobar’: Over 100 former civil servants to President Murmu, GOI
The Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) consisting of former civil servants have in separate communications to President, Draupadi Murmi, the MHA, NCST and the Director, social Welfare, Andaman and Nicobar Islands urged a credible Social Impact Assessment (SIA) that factors in the impact of such unbridled ‘development’ on the Tribal Reserve in Greater Nicobar and its vulnerable tribal groups
Understanding Uttarakhand’s ‘pain’ of ‘development’, the bane of religious and wild life tourism
Uttarakhand’s’ forest fire has resulted in loss of not...
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