Ahead of the 2014 parliamentary elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) manifesto had promised to “frame the environmental laws in a manner” that will lead to “speedy clearance of proposals…
In January this year, over a hundred trainee mountaineers rappelled down Tenzing Rock, a natural rock in India’s Darjeeling city, named after the legendary Sherpa Tenzing Norgay who with Sir…
In the ongoing Amsterdam Light Festival, illuminating the city’s waterway, a Serbian artist duo’s installation of an LED version of Vincent Van Gogh’s iconic painting ‘The Starry Night’ has drawn…
Groundwater in over 25,000 habitations across India is contaminated with excess arsenic and fluoride levels. To address the issue, a parliamentary committee has now asked the Union Ministry of Drinking…
Stating that the development of port infrastructure is necessary to the economic health of the nation, a parliamentary committee has asked the environment ministry to speed up the environmental clearance…
India’s death and disease burden due to air pollution, an “under-appreciated contributor” to ill health, is disproportionately high, a study has said, underscoring that toxic air prematurely kills 11 percent…
2018 is the year of our beginning, the year when we took our baby steps to start covering conservation and environment news from India. Though we formally launched on January…
On December 11, officials will open the seals of thousands of electronic voting machines from Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana. Packed in those machines are the electoral fates…
This is the second article in a two-part series on the role of environment in the upcoming elections in Mizoram. Part One examines the issue of land use for agriculture, especially…
This is the third article in a three-part series on the role of environment in the upcoming elections in Madhya Pradesh. Part One examines the priority given to environmental issues like…
How should a country, blessed with mountain ranges like the Aravallis that are over two billion years old, treat them? Spread across four states, the 692-km-long Aravalli range is key…
In the middle of August 2018, Kerala went through severe floods, the likes of which was experienced earlier nearly hundred years ago in 1924. Two years earlier in 2016, both…
There is clear and mounting evidence today to demonstrate that exposure to dirty air, both outdoors and indoors, is severely injurious to health, and is snuffing out lives prematurely, especially…
This is the second article in a three-part series on the role of environment in the upcoming elections at Chhattisgarh. Part One describes the paradox of development in the resource-rich…
Residents in metropolitan cities such as Delhi have been concerned about the health hazards associated with a rise in air pollution due to the bursting of firecrackers during Diwali (known…
Sarhula Lohra suffers from tuberculosis (TB) and coughs blood regularly. The 65-year-old who does odd jobs to eke out his livelihood is often helped by neighbours who take him to…
As India chokes on a cocktail of toxic fumes and particulate matter, researchers are zeroing-on air pollutant-gobbling plant species, that could be marshalled for green belt development along roadsides, thermal…
Scientists warn that inhaled air pollutant particles (particulate matter) are moving from the lungs to placentas of pregnant women, highlighting an urgent need for stricter policies for cleaner air that…
Hailing from a fishing village in Manipur’s Loktak Lake, which has seen indigenous fish varieties flounder in recent decades, Tongbram Amarjit Singh’s dream project since his school days was to…
What started off as a holiday in the Andamans for educators Supriya Singh and Katarina Roncevic, has turned into a two-country project to train teachers, students and parents on global…
