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Mining Suspended in 10-km-Wide Zone Around Sariska Tiger Reserve

Rishika Pardikar 29/12/2018

"About a crore or two’s worth of minerals are...

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Modi’s Waterway Project in Varanasi May Only Do More Damage to the Ganga

Shripad Dharmadhikary 12/11/2018

Inland waterways can damage fragile river ecosystems. But the...

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Activists Protest Tigress Avni’s Killing, Maneka Gandhi Calls Death a ‘Crime’

The Wire Staff 04/11/2018

Locals in Yavatamal celebrated her death with firecrackers and...

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Environment Ministry’s Cooling Action Plan Is a Good Start but Not Good Enough

Parul Kumar 25/10/2018

The ICAP alludes vaguely to “targeted programmes to enable...

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Climate Change Is Reducing the Ability of Forests to Store Carbon

Lalitha Krishnan 13/10/2018

India has said it will boost its carbon sink...

A traffic jam in New Delhi. Vehicular emissions are a big source of Delhi's air pollution. Credit: lingaraj/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

The Updated National Clean Air Programme Is Effectively Blind

Sanjana Manaktala and Abhinav Verma 06/09/2018

Quantitative national targets that featured in the draft concept...

A garbage dump near Kenduwal village, where solid waste from Baddi is dumped. Credit: Manshi Asher

The Farce of ‘Integrated Waste Management’ in Himachal Pradesh

Manshi Asher 17/07/2018

What is an open dumping yard in reality is...