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High stakes hearing: Meghalaya High Court addresses unlawful rat-hole mining after Committee's startling report

Policy matters this fortnight

Posted on 06 Dec, 2023 02:56 PM

Meghalaya High Court confronts ongoing illicit rat-hole coal mining: Committee's alarming report sparks legal and environmental concerns

Banning all coal mining in the region, can effectively shut down the economy (Image: ECSP, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)

Sorting for circularity India toolkit launched

Pioneering partnership sets India on path to next-gen textiles leadership

Fashion for Good

Posted on 30 Nov, 2023 07:56 PM

Leveraging insights from Wealth in Waste, Fashion for Good releases a toolkit designed to revalorise textile waste in India. Celebrating the closure of the Sorting for Circularity India Project, a conference in New Delhi on December 1 and 2, hosted in collaboration with Laudes Foundation, IDH, Canopy, and Reverse Resources will focus on developing a roadmap to circularity.

Textile waste can have detrimental effects on the environment (Image: Rawpixel)

Maharashtra village overcomes its water woes through collective action

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Aarti Kelkar Khambete

Posted on 16 Nov, 2023 02:22 PM

Maharashtra village overcomes its water woes through collective action

Collective effort for water conservation. Image for representation purposes only (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)

Tamil Nadu may charge fees for commercial groundwater extraction: Upcoming revisions to State Water Policy

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Amita Bhaduri

Posted on 15 Nov, 2023 09:19 AM

Tamil Nadu’s initiative to enhance water policy and management: Updates expected by January

Need to push for tough laws to restrict groundwater overextraction (Image: Rawpixel)

The plastic siege of rivers and lakes in India

Microplastic pollution in our rivers and lakes is increasing threatening livelihoods and health. More research and evidence is urgently needed to design environmentally sound coping and disposal mechanisms.

Kannaiyan Neelavannan

Indra Sekhar Sen

Posted on 26 Oct, 2023 03:18 PM

Plastic pollution of freshwater ecosystems in India is increasing - particularly that of rivers informs this paper titled 'Microplastics in freshwater ecosystems of India: Current trends and future perspectives' published in ACS OMEGA.

The polluted Ganges (Image Source: Lane via Wikimedia Commons)

Women: The harbingers of change, not silent sufferers

Women have often led the acts of resilience, and transformation, batting two warfronts at once, calamities and gendered social restrictions. It becomes important to explore, highlight, and reiterate their accomplishments as the changemakers, and not as the passive recipients.

Ayushya Singh

Posted on 21 Oct, 2023 05:03 PM

In times of crisis and calamity, women have repeatedly been cast, portrayed, and even studied as vulnerable groups, their agency overshadowed by societal perceptions. This characterization extends beyond disasters to encompass human-induced socio-economic upheavals too. While this narrative implies a lack of agency amongst women, the reality is quite different.

Women as trailblazers: Resilience, transformation, and breaking barriers on dual fronts (Image: ILRI/Mann; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)

National Green Tribunal issues notices for non-compliance with river cleanup orders

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Amita Bhaduri

Posted on 17 Oct, 2023 03:12 PM

NGT issues notices for non-compliance: States and Centre criticised for failing to clean polluted river stretches

River Yamuna in Delhi (Image: Mirza, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED)

Government of India launches AI Chatbot to revolutionize farmers' support

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Amita Bhaduri

Posted on 01 Oct, 2023 03:12 PM

Tech-driven transformation: AI Chatbot elevates efficiency of PM-KISAN scheme for Indian farmers

The Indian government introduces an AI Chatbot to transform support for farmers: A significant stride for the PM-KISAN scheme (Image: Freepik)

Water fleas see red as river Mula Mutha in Pune chokes

This study conducted by freshwater biologists Avinash Vanjare, Yugandhar Shinde and Sameer Padhye finds that pollution and faulty restoration practices have spelled doom for smaller animals residing in the Mula Mutha river indicating serious threats to the river ecosystem in the long run.

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

Posted on 29 Sep, 2023 09:57 PM

Mula Mutha, a river under seige

The Mula Mutha river at Pune (Image Source: Alexey Komarov via Wikimedia Commons)

Monitoring water quality of lakes and ponds in Kolkata

Using organisms living in the water as indicators of the status of water bodies provides a number of advantages over chemical analysis and is increasingly being used to monitor water quality of rivers and lakes in India.

Subhadip Ghosh

Shaheen Akhtar

Kanchan Kumari

Posted on 22 Sep, 2023 01:07 PM

Biomonitoring, to assess the pollution levels in water bodies

Santragachi Lake, beside Santragachi rail station at Santragachi, Howrah district, West Bengal (Image Source: Pinakpani via Wikimedia Commons)

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May 6, 2024

Floating forward: An entrepreneur's tryst for 'clean-water' bodies

Innovative solutions to clean urban water bodies, Floating islands (Photo Credit: Priyanshu Kamath)

May 6, 2024

भारत के जलनायक

प्राचीन वैदिक काल में ही नहीं बल्कि मध्यकाल और उसके बाद के समय में भी जल विकास और संचयन के क्षेत्रों में उत्कृष्ट निर्माण कार्य किए गए। जल विकास और संचयन के अनेक प्रमुख कार्य तो स्वाधीनता संग्राम के साथ-साथ ही चलाए गए जिनके निर्माण में भारतीय इंजीनियरों, स्वतंत्रता सेनानियों, रजवाड़ों और राजघरानों के शासकों और अनेक अज्ञात नायकों ने उल्लेखनीय सफलताएँ प्राप्त करके देश में अपनी अमिट छाप लगा दी। Not only in the ancient Vedic period but also in the medieval period and thereafter, excellent construction works were done in the fields of water development and harvesting. Many major works of water development and harvesting were carried out simultaneously with the freedom struggle, in the construction of which Indian engineers, freedom fighters, rulers of princely states and royal families and many unknown heroes achieved remarkable successes and left their indelible mark in the country.

May 6, 2024

Tribals in Niyamgiri revive climate resilient varieties of rice and millets

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Traditional Rice Kosla of Niyamgiri Hills (Image Source: Pankaj Oudhia via Wikimedia Commons)

May 5, 2024

जल प्रशासन में गुजरात और भारत की जलयात्रा

गुजरात और भारत की जल यात्रा बहुत दिलचस्प है, जिसने दुनिया को दिखाया है कि जल को संधारणीय बनाने और पर्यावरण संरक्षण को बहाल करने के लिए जल प्रबंधन में कैसे नयापन लाया जा सकता है। संधारणीयता के उद्देश्य से, लोगों की भागीदारी प्रौद्योगिकी पर केंद्रित ये पहल, पूरी दुनिया के लिए किफायती, प्रेरक और विश्वसनीय मॉडल का मार्ग प्रशस्त करती है। The water journey of Gujarat and India is very interesting, which has shown the world how to innovate in water management to make water sustainability and restore environmental protection. These initiatives, focused on people-participatory technology with the aim of sustainability, pave the way for affordable, inspiring and reliable models for the entire world.