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Monitoring guidelines for sand mining released

Policy matters this week

Posted on 29 Jan, 2020 11:39 PM

Guidelines to monitor illegal sand mining released

For the first time, the Environment Ministry has released Enforcement and Monitoring Guidelines for Sand Mining 2020 to monitor and check illegal sand mining in the country.

Illegal sand mining continues in the country unabated (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Training on ‘Hydrogeological tools and methods to decipher Aquifer characteristics’

The Watershed Organisation Trust is organising the training on ‘Hydrogeological tools and methods to decipher Aquifer characteristics’ from 25th to 29th Feb 2020.

Posted on 23 Jan, 2020 05:13 PM

Cauvery riverfront development plan gets an approval

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 22 Jan, 2020 08:41 PM

Cauvery riverfront development plan gets a nod

Cauvery river at Hogenakal, Karnataka (Source: IWP Flickr Photos via Claire Arni and Oriole Henri)

India’s food systems in transition

A recent book looks at solutions to the various obstacles that impede India’s various food sub-systems.

Posted on 22 Jan, 2020 11:45 AM

A recent book ‘Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India’ by the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) at Cornell University provides a detailed assessment of the major paradoxes of the Indian growth story.

Organic food (Image: P L Tandon, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

A climate change wake-up call

Climate change can lead to large-scale economic knock-on effects, says a McKinsey Global Institute report.

Amita Bhaduri

Posted on 21 Jan, 2020 06:53 AM

A new McKinsey Global Institute report, ‘Climate risk and response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts’, suggests that many assumptions about the pote

Heat-exposed work has produced about half of India’s GDP, and employs about 75 percent of the labor force. There will be a need to shift working hours for outdoor workers and undertake heat management efforts (Image: Ian D Keating, Flickr Commons, CC BY 2.0)

Can ruin of quality forests be made up by plantations?

There is a gain in forest cover outside forest land as per the 'State of forest report 2019'. But, can reforestation replace natural forests and its essential ecosystem?

Amita Bhaduri

Posted on 18 Jan, 2020 04:49 PM

The recently released biennial State of India’s Forest Report 2019 (SFR) indicates an improvement in forest cover since 2017 but dense forests continue to turn into non-forests.

Chir pine trees felled by forest fires in Uttarakhand, 2016 (Image: Ramwik, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Water-related crime doubles in India: Report

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 16 Jan, 2020 08:28 AM

Number of water-related crimes double in India: Report

Water-related crime doubles in India (Image Source: Sourabh Phadke)

Government notifies new wetland conservation rules

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Swati Bansal

Posted on 16 Jan, 2020 08:17 AM

Environment Ministry notifies new wetland conservation rules

Deepor Beel, a wetland in Assam (Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Whose forests, whose rights?

While forest bureaucracy has been trying to undermine reforms in forest governance in India, the need for community level forest governance is more urgent than ever.

Sharachchandra Lele

Posted on 15 Jan, 2020 02:58 PM

India’s forest sector, at crossroads