This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one.
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[Book review] Lawscape behind landmarks: India’s history of environmental laws and policies
The book ‘Environmental Law and Policy in India: Cases and Materials’, traces the journey of the Indian environmental legal system within the Constitution.
[Photos] Old homes of Kashmir’s cold valley
The old houses of the Kashmir Valley are living examples of climate-resilient and sustainable architecture. Kashmir’s architecture evolved in response to the Valley’s climate, including addressing harsh winter periods.
However, a section of house-owners and architectural experts says that modern construction and design does not factor in local climatic conditions.
A centralised power market will help in savings, support green energy producers, hints study
India’s proposed national centralised electricity market has the potential of saving costs up to Rs 1.5-4 crore per day for discoms.
Habitat preservation in the Western Ghats can help enhance biodiversity in the hotspot
Biodiversity enriches ecosystem services providing reasons to develop better policy and management strategies for habitat preservation.
A Rajasthan village claims factory emissions are impacting health; factory has clean chit from pollution board
The factory denies violating any norms and the Rajasthan Pollution Control Board confirms that emissions are within prescribed limits.
New thermal power plants mandated to use renewable sources to generate part of their energy
New thermal power plants are mandated to ensure that 40% of their total power comes from renewable energy sources.
Climate change and catfight in the Himalayas: tigers, leopards venture into snow leopard land
Tigers and leopards are moving further north in search of a suitable habitat, encroaching on the territory of snow leopards.
Brahmapuram fumes over waste
On March 2, 25-ft-high ‘hills’ of garbage, extending over 40 acres at the Brahmapuram waste plant in Kochi caught fire.
Madia Gond tribes forced to leave ancestral land, as human-animal conflict increases
Tribes who relocated to new areas are facing negative consequences due to inadequate resettlement facilities.
