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Interview: Niyamgiri Activist Gets World’s Biggest Green Prize

Juhi Chaudhary 25/04/2017

Prafulla Samantara is a key leader in the long...

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Protestors May Have Stopped POSCO, But the Fight Isn’t Over Yet

Jayabrata Sarkar 14/04/2017

Despite the POSCO Pratirodha Sangram Samiti's successful agitation, the...

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Environment Ministry to Bend Over Backwards to Whitelist Illicit Projects

Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli 22/03/2017

A new notification from the ministry lays out a...

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Infinite in All Directions: Juno’s Problem, Evolution of Astronomy, Visualising Pulsars

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/03/2017

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire‘s science newsletter....

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Indiscriminate Industrialisation, Environmental Degradation Have Turned Odisha Into a Cauldron

Bhaskar Parichha 03/05/2016

Meteorologists have warned that if the current heatwave conditions...

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Open Defecation Affects Pregnancy Outcomes Too, New Study Finds

Vasudevan Mukunth 09/07/2015

What remains to be found - at least to...