First Lions and Now Cheetahs: Kuno-Palpur National Park’s Communities Prepare to Relocate For Conservation
Non-implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 weighs heavily on Kuno-Palpur, leaving Adivasis with few options other than relocating for conservation.
Oil on Troubled Waters: The Environmental Impact of Proposed Oil Drilling in Alaska
Co-authored by Aarathi Ganesan, Gopika Kumaran and Sunalika Singh
The Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has been a political battleground between environmentalists and (politically backed)...
Projects in Protected Area: How Development Politics Fragments Conservation in the Sanjay Gandhi...
The Sanjay Gandhi National Park is a one-of-a-kind national park located inside the city of Mumbai. How have developmental projects inside the protected area impacted the people, flora, and fauna?
Building Climate Change Resilient Infrastructure For An Uncertain Tomorrow
₹6,048 crores—this is the cost of the total damage caused by cyclone Nisarga when it hit Maharashtra this June. This huge loss isn’t a...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
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...
