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Biodiversity
Severe water crisis grips southern India
Posted on 07 Mar, 2017 01:47 PMSouthern India reels under drought-like conditions
In harm’s way: Pulicat lagoon
Posted on 06 Mar, 2017 03:34 PMAlong the east coast of India, five massive wetlands--starting from Point Calimere (Kodiakarai) and Pulicat in Tamil Nadu, the Krishna-Godavari basin in Andhra, Chilika in Odisha and Sundarbans in West Bengal--provide the necessary moisture for monsoon winds to precipitate.
Maharashtra goes Doha for water
Posted on 22 Feb, 2017 12:02 PMThere was a time when the farmers of Yavatmal district depended completely on rainfed agriculture. That was before the introduction of Doha, a water harvesting structure by NGO Dilasa Sansthan in 2014. Farming changed drastically after that, something which Sitaram Kove, a 40-year-old farmer of Rajini village in the district, will vouch for.
‘We have more hardy, nutritious grains than GM can offer’
Posted on 16 Feb, 2017 05:59 PMFarming can’t be sustainable without the seeds which are best suited to the location, water availability, soil type and weather. According to records, there were 1.10 lakh varieties of rice in India till 1965. After that, the Green Revolution happened, which pushed for hybrid varieties.
Public money wasted in the name of Ganga revival: NGT
Posted on 13 Feb, 2017 09:47 PMNGT blames Centre for wasting public money in the name of Ganga clean-up
Chennai coast chokes on oil
Posted on 06 Feb, 2017 12:05 PMDisaster struck two nautical miles off Ennore’s Kamarajar port just before dawn on January 28 when two cargo ships--LPG tanker BW Maple bearing the flag of the UK’s Isle of Man and MT Dawn Kanchipuram loaded to the brim with petroleum oil and lubricants--collided due to poor inter-vessel communicatio
Opposition to Teesta Stage IV hydel project
Posted on 30 Jan, 2017 04:20 PMPeople of Sikkim stand against Teesta hydel project
Capital punishment
Posted on 20 Jan, 2017 08:37 PMIt may come as a surprise to many that Delhi, a bustling metropolis and home to a population of over 18.6 million, has one of the largest stretches of forests in the country bang in the middle of the city.
No man's land
Posted on 18 Jan, 2017 09:39 PMFrom its rather benign origins connoting a type of land classification, the term poromboke has transformed into something grotesque over the years. This term had been in use since the Cholas denoting stretches of land reserved for shared communal use which cannot be bought or sold.