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Audit report flags issues with coastal projects

Simrin Sirur 17 Jan 2025

Green credit scheme rolls out with oil and coal leading the way

Simrin Sirur 17 Dec 2024

Polluting industries are now exempt from dual approvals before setting up ops

Simrin Sirur 11 Dec 2024

Developing nations demand public grants, not loans, at COP29 finance talks

Kundan Pandey 21 Nov 2024

Matsyanyaya: A journey through India’s landscapes swallowed by urbanisation

Rashi Goel 12 Nov 2024

Greenwashing guidelines a ‘welcome step’, but needs enforcement, says industry

Simrin Sirur 23 Oct 2024

Sonam Wangchuk and climate marchers stopped, detained, and then released by Delhi Police

Simrin Sirur 4 Oct 2024
Image shows a deep mining pit surrounded by layers of dug-up soil and trees in the background

Goa mining: new regime, bigger challenges

Pamela D'Mello 30 Sep 2024
A 2009 image of UB City in Bengaluru. At present, one of the biggest reasons behind Bengaluru’s faltering urban system is that the city has been running without a local government for over four years. Image by Prateek Karandikar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

New urban governance bill in Bengaluru faces criticism, takes away citizen power says analysis

Shailesh Shrivastava 9 Sep 2024

Crackdown on civil society and environmental NGOs continues

Simrin Sirur 24 Jul 2024
A Main Bazaar of Paharganj of Central Delhi. Since 2007, the population of Delhi has almost doubled, from 19 million in 2007 to an estimated 33 million in 2024 but without a proper planning system. Image by Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-4.0)

Rethinking master plans for India’s growing cities

Kundan Pandey 23 Jul 2024

[Commentary] From poll booths to weather stations, the heat is on

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 3 May 2024

India following a global trend of forsaking environment protection for “national security,” paper says

Simrin Sirur 21 Nov 2023

What happened to Tamil Nadu’s model renewable energy village?

Gowthami Subramaniam 21 Jul 2023
A Landsat 7 image of the Sundarbans. Photo by NASA Observatory/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Book review] Lawscape behind landmarks: India’s history of environmental laws and policies

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 16 Mar 2023
Children playing cricket in Goa.

Panjim riverfront’s urban green lungs under pressure from entertainment tourism

Pamela D'Mello 2 Jan 2023

[Commentary] Kolkata’s climate action plan needs to be more gender-sensitive

Manoranjan Ghosh 4 Nov 2022

Government claims every household in Goa has piped water; records, residents disagree

Supriya Vohra 27 Oct 2022
During summer months, MGNREGS workers start work before dawn, and try to wrap up before noon. However, such measures aren’t sustainable, say experts. India’s economy is highly dependent on heat-exposed labour with an overwhelming 75% of the labour force, close to 380 million people. Photo by Mahima Jain.

Can MGNREGS work as a social protection scheme for women in heat-stressed areas?

Mahima Jain 2 Aug 2022
A protest by environmentalists in Colombo.

Environmental policy failures contributed to Sri Lanka’s people power revolution

Malaka Rodrigo 27 Jul 2022