Conflicts

Supreme Court pulls Centre over preservation of wetlands

When I meet Puran Chand, an activist in the forefront of the anti-Renuka dam struggle, he dictates from the two much-thumbed pages of his notebook the several objections he has against the government’s plan for the rehabilitation of people displaced by the Renuka dam.

SC stays order granting human status to Ganga and Yamuna rivers

Uttarakhand challenges living person status to Ganga and Yamuna rivers, moves SC

Chennai reels under acute crisis of drinking water

Signs of mustard aphid, a key pest of the mustard crop appeared predictably in November last year in Dinesh’s farm. Drifting across the open green fields, it landed on the tender leaves of the mustard crop. “It sets in November during the flowering and pod bearing stage of the crop and lasts till January.

India's groundwater crisis: Gujarat's solar irrigation cooperative embarks on a solution

Kakkoos, a compelling documentary film on manual scavenging in Tamil Nadu is all about showing the practice as it is without any filter.

Pankaj Sekhsaria’s recent book Islands in flux--The Andaman and Nicobar Story is a collection of around 20 years of his writings on the environmental and conservation concerns faced by the indigenous tribal communities of the region.

After becoming a human entity, Ganga river receives first legal notice