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August 11, 2024
SeasonWatch: Citizens, trees, and climate change
Even in the face of daunting challenges like climate change, collective action and community engagement can lead to meaningful change
SeasonWatch tree walk at Rupa Rahul Bajaj Centre for Environment and Art (Image: SeasonWatch)
May 19, 2024
How do your everyday choices impact the world's resources?
The surprising connection between Wikipedia, beaches, and your water bottle.
A top down image of a lush green forest in a sacred grove in Meghalaya (Image created by: Sreechand Tavva)
May 11, 2024
Unravelling the escalating forest fire crisis in Uttarakhand
Deforestation, expansion of agricultural land, encroachment into forested areas, and unplanned urbanisation alter landscape connectivity, fragment habitats, and increase fire ignition sources.
Uttarakhand's wildfire wake-up call (Image: Pickpic)
May 8, 2024
Ecosystem-based approach to water management: Key to Karnataka’s water future
What is the ecosystem based approach to water management? How can it help in solving the water woes of states in the Deccan Plateau?
An ecosystem based approach to water management (Image Source: India Water Portal)
July 5, 2023
Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu sets an example by becoming water secure
News this fortnight
Being water secure. Image for representation purposes only (Image Source: India Water Portal Flickr photos)
May 26, 2023
An anthropologist visits orans in Rajasthan
Orans are traditional sacred groves found in Rajasthan. These are community forests, preserved and managed by rural communities through institutions and codes that mark such forests sacred. Orans have significance for both, conservation and livelihood. The author visited two orans in Alwar district in Rajasthan and in this article, she writes about her observation.
Since ancient times, communities in Rajasthan have preserved these orans, and their lives have been inextricably entwined with them. (Image: Ranjita Mohanty)
Islands float on Delhi lake
Floating wetlands have been constructed on Hauz Khas lake in an attempt to naturally restore it.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 08 Mar, 2018 06:09 AM

Located in the Hauz Khas urban village in the busy metropolis of Delhi is an exquisitely landscaped lush green patch. This deer park, with spotted deer, peacocks and numerous birds, leads to an incredibly beautiful lake. As per a plaque at the site, the lake is a part of the medieval (13th century) city of Delhi Sultanate.
Phytoremediation principle is used to convert Hauz Khas lake into a water purifying wetland ecosystem. (Image: Tarun Nanda)
Dam of consequences
Despite controversies around the Pancheshwar dam proposal and the panic it is creating among the villages around, the project is progressing fast.
Vimal Bhai
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 14 Feb, 2018 05:27 AM

River Mahakali snakes its way through the hills and valleys of Nepal and Uttaranchal, collecting its water from the numerous streams it receives on the way. Also known as Sharda in India, the river forms the international boundary between India and Nepal.
The project is expected to submerge 11,600 hectares of mountain area.
Book Release and Discussion on ‘Alternative Futures: India Unshackled’, a book edited by Ashish Kothari and K. J. Joy
The book is a collection of 35 essays containing dreams, visions, and pathways of reaching a just and sustainable India.
Posted on 22 Jan, 2018 10:40 AM

Alternative Futures: India Unshackled is a riveting new book that brings together scenarios of an India that is politically and socially egalitarian, radically democratic, economically sustainable and equitable, and socio-culturally diverse and harmonious.
Alternative Futures: India Unshackled
A remarkable, first-ever collection of 35 essays on India’s future, by a diverse set of authors – activists, researchers, media practitioners.
Ashish Kothari
KJ Joy
Posted on 22 Jan, 2018 10:39 AM

Alternative Futures: India Unshackled is a book that brings together scenarios of an India that is politically and socially egalitarian, radically democratic, economically sustainable and equitable, and socio-culturally diverse and harmonious.
Alternative Futures: India Unshackled
Coughing out coal
A study from Chhattisgarh finds that coal mining leads to severe health risks and environmental damage and questions the current policy emphasis on the use of coal for energy generation in India.
Rinchin
Prabir Chatterjee
Manan Ganguli
Smarajit Jana
Posted on 22 Jan, 2018 10:08 AM

The coal mining sector is all set to receive a boost in India as the government plans to open up the sector to commercial players by 2018. 
A villager looks at the changing landscape due to coal mines at Kosampalli village in Raigarh (Image source: IWP photo by Makarand Purohit)
IRCTC to use excess groundwater from mines
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 03 Jan, 2018 10:13 AM

IRCTC signs MoU with Coal India to extract groundwater from mines
Water at coal mines in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Arunachal becomes open defecation free
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 03 Jan, 2018 09:44 AM

Arunachal achieves the open defecation free status
A toilet constructed under SBM. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
MGNREGA failed to curb migration: Survey
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 20 Dec, 2017 11:44 AM

Survey reveals MGNREGA failed to curb migration
Labourers build check dams under MGNREGA. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
World Culture Festival ruined Yamuna floodplains: NGT
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 12 Dec, 2017 11:54 AM

Art of Living responsible for destroying the Yamuna floodplains: NGT
The front view of the giant stage under construction for the World Culture Festival. (Source: Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan)
CRZ clears inland waterway terminal at Haldia
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 28 Nov, 2017 01:55 PM

Green nod to Inland waterway terminal at Haldia
Haldia port in West Bengal (Source: Wikimedia commons)
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