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Climate Change Could Derail India’s Plans To Grow Oil Palm Domestically

Lou Del Bello 01/05/2023

A national drive to expand domestic production relies on...

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How To Create a Water-Happy India in the Wake of Global Warming

Anjal Prakash 22/03/2021

Jal shakti abhiyan, launched in 2019, aims to integrate...

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US Must Slash Emissions by at Least 57% To Meet Paris Climate Target

Valerie Volcovici 13/03/2021

To decarbonise the U.S. power sector by 2035, Biden...

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The Idea of Arid Lands as ‘Wastelands’ Comes Mostly From Colonial Assumptions

Diana K. Davis 31/08/2020

These assumptions continue to harm the world’s drylands and...

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The Story of India’s Private Forests

Manu Moudgil 21/07/2019

India has lost over 1.6 million hectares of tree...

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A Response to the Questions About Groundwater Data in NITI Aayog’s Water Report

Avinash Mishra, Arunima Chandra and Namrata Singh Panwar 20/07/2019

Late last month, Joanna Slater of The Washington Post...

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Doubts Over NITI Aayog Claim That 21 Cities Face Groundwater Extinction by 2020

The Wire Staff 29/06/2019

At a time when both the state and central...