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Ecology and Environment
Mining affected areas and its impact on livelihoods: Meghalaya
Posted on 27 Apr, 2021 12:28 AMMeghalaya has a predominantly agrarian economy.
![There is a need for management of acid mine drainage and contaminated water in mining areas (Image: Environmental Change and Security Program/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-04/coal-Meghalaya.jpg?itok=LHm7_HUa)
Reducing air pollution due to stubble burning in Northwest India
Posted on 16 Apr, 2021 07:58 PMThere is a predictability to the narrative around North India’s air pollution. Air that is unhealthy all year-round becomes unbreathable during winter, largely due to particulate matter in emissions from farm fires in Punjab, Haryana, and Western Uttar Pradesh.
![A large amount of crop residues are available in western UP and most of these are burnt in the field (Image: Ed Dunens, Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-04/Stubble%20burning.jpg?itok=5GjtR_5b)
States have no rights in granting forest clearance: Government
Posted on 15 Apr, 2021 10:10 PMForest ministry solely in the hands of Centre: Environment Ministry
![Forests help mainitain the ecological balance of Earth (Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-04/9460874257_abfe0465bc_c.jpg?itok=6vd_4HdL)
Mosquito fish – invaders in disguise!
Posted on 22 Mar, 2021 12:02 PMThreats to freshwater bodies in India are many and include pollution, flow modification, overexploitation and habitat degradation. Besides these, introduction of invasive alien species is a growing problem in India threatening freshwater biodiversity leading to a decline in native species and compromising the health of freshwater bodies.
What is an invasive species
![Gambusia spell doom for freshwater diversity (Image Source: Gambusia affinis, NOZO via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/Gambusia.jpg?itok=t4TITsum)
Online course: A primer on biodiversity and ecology of the freshwater ecosystems of the western ghats
Posted on 18 Mar, 2021 02:14 PM![PKC course](/sites/default/files/inline-images/PKC%20course.jpg)
![PKC course 1](/sites/default/files/inline-images/PKC%20course%202.jpg)
India’s pandemic generation: Inching closer to ecological disasters
Posted on 17 Mar, 2021 11:20 PMIndia is all set to usher in a ‘pandemic generation’, with 375 million children (from newborns to 14-year-olds) likely to suffer long-lasting impacts, as per the State of Environment Report, 2021.
![Environmental crisis leading to more vulnerabilities among the marginalised communities. (Image: Pixabay)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-03/ecology.jpg?itok=hhcZbS4j)
Dams and distress in the Himalayas!
Posted on 23 Feb, 2021 10:10 PMProliferation of hydropower development in the Himalayas is leading to extensive land use changes in the river valleys and threatening the diverse and fragile Himalayan ecosystems leading to deforestation, fragmentation, soil erosion and loss of forest biodiversity. These are a cause for serious concern for local communities, whose lives and livelihoods depend on these forests.
![100 MW Tidong-I project, Kinnaur HP (Image Source: Manu Moudgil)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/Kinnaur1.jpg?itok=kqtAdjZL)
Budget 2021: Environmental conservation or business as usual
Posted on 13 Feb, 2021 08:46 AMThis year’s budget was tabled when the country was grappling with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 induced crisis. The government was expected to provide an effective response to the pandemic-induced recession.
![There is a need to estimate the ecological footprint of all activities. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/Environment_0.jpg?itok=tJ9_WzCp)
Professor Brij Gopal, a tireless advocate of India’s rivers!
Posted on 03 Feb, 2021 03:06 PMWe best remember Professor Brij Gopal as someone who was very frank in his criticism of river and wetland policies. He strongly voiced the need for conserving river ecology and conceptualised the river regulation zone to offer legal protection to river floodplains from activities that could threaten the health of rivers.
![River Ken in Madhya Pradesh (Image Source: Shivamd2d via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-02/Kenriver.jpg?itok=2c9bsO4_)