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Government notifies ban on single-use plastics from July 2022

Policy matters this fortnight

Swati Bansal

Posted on 24 Aug, 2021 12:04 AM

No more single-use plastics from July 1, 2022

Plastic menace in Kufri, Himachal Pradesh (Image source: IWP Flickr photos)

Study indicates no uranium in Kerala’s drinking water

MG University conducted the analyses of water sources across the state

Posted on 21 Aug, 2021 11:42 AM

The serious health effects connected with the presence of uranium, a naturally occurring radioactive element in drinking water sources from different parts of the world and more recently in some parts of India (

Drinking water sources can be contaminated with uranium to an extent by certain anthropogenic activities (Image: Pxfuel)

Mobilising communities against encroachment of water bodies

Pushing urban local governments to take adequate steps to protect water bodies

Subhrajyoti Karmakar

Posted on 20 Aug, 2021 07:25 PM

Tapas Das, a river and wat

Tapan Dighi (Image: Tapan Dighi Bachao Facebook Page)

Proactive action on green cooling to deal with the climate crisis

India’s decision to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol is a milestone in green cooling and will contribute significantly to climate action, says iFOREST

iFOREST

Posted on 20 Aug, 2021 10:58 AM

India’s approval on ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on

Edited NASA PR image showing the ozone hole for 2014 over the south pole. Red is bad, blue is good, e.g., red means not as much ozone as blue. (Image: Stuart Rankin; CC BY-NC 2.0)

Equipping communities to plan land and water conservation initiatives

Use of digital tools for implementing natural resources management at scale in rural India

Foundation for Ecological Security

Posted on 19 Aug, 2021 11:21 PM

Less than an hour from the district headquarter of Bhilwara, women in village Bavdi in Jahazpur block had to walk for several miles in the scorching heat

Digital planning tools like CLART can go a long way in achieving better land-use outcomes (Image: Foundation for Ecological Security)

Urban inequalities and heat risks in Delhi

Delhi, the largest urban agglomeration in the country is predicted to experience episodes of extreme heat in the years to come. What are its implications for vulnerable populations in the city?

Bruce C. Mitchell

Jayajit Chakraborty

Pratyusha Basu

Posted on 18 Aug, 2021 02:58 PM

The sixth assessment report by the United Nation's Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change released this week has issued dire warnings that have major implications for India.

An aerial view of Delhi, August 2016. (Image Source: Sumita Roy Dutta via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Barriers to organic farming: Experience of Kansari Organics

Government needs to switch subsidies and investments from chemical agriculture to the promotion of sustainable agriculture

Subhadra Khaperde

Ananya Mukerji

Posted on 15 Aug, 2021 09:15 PM

Agriculture in India directly or indirectly provides livelihoods to 60% of the population and so the problems of this sector are most relevant for the country’s overall development and have to be effectively addressed.

A farmer harvests the season's cauliflower crop near Kullu town, Himachal Pradesh (Image: Neil Palmer, CIAT; Wikimedia Commons)

Nainital’s water woes: Every drop of rain counts

Nainital, a burgeoning hill town with a huge growing population is faced with water supply issues. Adoption of the practice of rainwater harvesting can lead to a paradigm shift towards better utilisation of the town’s natural water resources.

Nidhi Singh

CEDAR

Posted on 15 Aug, 2021 04:16 PM

Nainital, the jewel of Uttarakhand’s Kumaun region is one of the most popular tourist destinations in northern India.