Uttar Pradesh

Is it possible to build resilience to climate change?
As the earth warms up, farmers face the most heat. Can they be better prepared and move towards a safer future? The film ‘For a safer future: Insights on climate resilience from India’, shows how. Posted on 13 Nov, 2015 10:57 PM

Gorakhpur of Eastern UP is not new to floods. Her people have understood and adapted to the flow and ebb of the waters that have been a part of their lives for long. People here have learned to live with the flood in tune with nature’s wayward ways. Though nature continues to play truant, recent years have seen an increasingy abrupt, uncertain and accelerated face of these disasters.

‘For a safer future: Insights on climate resilience from India’: A film (Source: GEAG and TERI)
Wildlife Board panel not to consider projects in and around protected areas
Policy matters this week Posted on 11 Nov, 2015 08:23 PM

Panel not to consider projects until eco-zones are clearly demarcated

Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan (Source: Vasundhara Deogawanka via IWP Flickr Photos)
Dolphins in the Ganga and its tributaries nearly doubles in 3 years
News this week Posted on 12 Oct, 2015 09:30 PM

Ganga and its tributaries, except the Ramganga show increased dolphin numbers

The Gangetic Dolphin (Source: Arati Kumar Rao)
The connection between gender and safe sanitation in rural India
Sanitation issues among women and girls are influenced by inequitable gender norms that put them at greater risk of experiencing violence and multiple health vulnerabilities. Posted on 02 Oct, 2015 04:28 PM

Sanitation coverage in India continues to display marked disparities in access to safe toilet facilities between urban and rural populations across economic and social groups despite some impressive gains made.

Health and sanitation, the linkages (Source: India Water Portal)
Activists demand Environmental Impact Assessment for Yettinahole project
News this week Posted on 29 Sep, 2015 05:05 PM

Social Impact Assessment alone not enough for Yettinahole, say activists

River Nethravathi (Source: Parineeta Dandekar via SANDRP)
Godavari, Krishna rivers are interlinked
News this week Posted on 14 Sep, 2015 10:21 PM

Godavari, Krishna rivers interlinked

Prakasam Barrage across Krishna river (Source: Subhash Chandra via Wikipedia)
Okhla Bird Sanctuary takes a backseat to real estate development in Noida
Policy matters this week Posted on 24 Aug, 2015 09:20 PM

Centre approves bringing down protected zone around Okhla Bird Sanctuary from 10 km to 1

Okhla Bird Sanctuary (Source: Amit Pratap via Wikipedia)
Creaking cities, vanishing ecosystems
An ecosystems-approach based on an understanding of the importance and contribution of ecosystem services is needed if both urban and peri-urban areas are to be developed sustainably and inclusively. Posted on 14 Aug, 2015 12:43 PM

Ecosystems are complex functioning units that include living as well as non living entities and build on interdependent relationships among these living resources, surrounding habitats and reside

Ecosystems and their role in climate change resilience
No tunnel for the Luhri hydel project in Himachal
Policy matter this week Posted on 11 Aug, 2015 12:07 PM

Villagers win as SJVNL drops its tunnel plan for Luhri hydel project 

Sutlej river in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh (Sanyam Bahga, Wikipedia)
CPCB fails to tackle rising river pollution: Report
News this week Posted on 28 Jul, 2015 09:22 AM

In the last 26 years, polluted river stretches rise from 22 to over 300

Polluted Yamuna river in Agra
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