In Her Opinion: Sarita Fernandes on Marine and Coastal Conservation
A lot is happening in marine and coastal conservation. Mumbai plans to build a coastal road. There are talks of banning trawling, and at...
Infrastructure Projects In and Around Protected Areas Need to Be Held Financially Accountable
This is Part Two of #FinancingDevelopment, a series analysing the finances behind India’s development journey, in collaboration with the Centre for Financial Accountability. Read...
Involving Local Participation: What the EIA 2020 Could Have Done
Part 1 of "Shrinking Negotiations" gave us a snapshot of a glaring gap in the Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) 2020 notification. If passed,...
In Southwest Delhi, Fields Have Been Underwater for the Last Two Decades
In Raota, a village in southwest Delhi, a blue wooden canoe floats. Four feet below the canoe is this year’s kharif paddy crop, now...
What’s wrong with the EIA 2020?
Research by Charith Reddy & Isha Malaviya
Edited & Presented by Sumit Krishna Yadav
The draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) 2020 has garnered a host...
Mapping the Illegal Trade of Wildlife on Social Media
Co-authored by Avantika Bunga and Kartik Sundar
The internet’s capacity to enable anonymity has attracted a slew of users who use it for illicit gains....
Fifth Amendment to Fly Ash Notification Does Little To Address the Ecological Dangers of...
Recent amendments to the 1999 fly ash notification by the MoEFCC do not sufficiently address the ecological consequences of thermal energy.
Forests of Flames: The Story of Wildfires
Researched and Written by Sourya Reddy
The Thomas fire, currently raging in California, has burned more than 150,000 acres since it began a little more...
The Dibang Debacle: Hydropower and Altered Flow Regimes in the Dibang Basin
The latest addition to India’s list of hydropower projects is the controversial 3,097 MW Etalin Hydroelectric Project (HEP) in Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang basin. Even...
Shongtong Hydroelectric Project Has Sold the Tribals of Kinnaur Down the River
Those privy to the progress of the project do not believe it will meet CM Sukhu’s timeline. At the same time, echoes of "we don’t want more hydropower projects" resonate across the district.
