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,...
The Shore Scene: Locked Down In a Fishing Town
In early March 2020, I traveled to Malvan, where, for the past three years, I’ve been studying the fisheries in the region. Malvan is...
Inside India’s Closet: Green Accounting
Researched and written by Sourya Reddy
In 2014-15, India was the fourth largest exporter of sugar, with a share of 4.4% of the total global...
Go, Goa, Gone: Understanding Goa’s Crisis
Written by Kanishk Srinivasan
Goa is undergoing a major identity crisis. The State has been earmarked for activities such as mining, a massive port-expansion, river...
Highway to Help: India’s Trucking Predicament
Research by Aditya Vikram
Written by Tanvi Mehta
India’s trucking industry relies on heavy-freight trucks for 65% of its activity. While they are the most efficient...
Uttarakhand’s Forest Fires: Communities’ Voices on why they Recur
The Uttarakhand forest fires are in the news again. As various photos of raging fires circulated on social media, the Forest Department issued statements...
La-cost of Fast Fashion
The global fashion industry employs over 60 million workers and generates $2.5 trillion in revenue worldwide every year. Its contribution to environmental degradation is...
On the Road: Tracing the Current Patterns of Fishworkers’ Migration in India
This piece is the second instalment of a two-part series 'On the Road' by Madhuri Mondal on how fishworkers have migrated in the past,...
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...
How Displacement by Dams Changed the Lives of Gujarat’s Women
One factor binds all the families displaced by dam building in Gujarat: the women experienced the resettlement differently from men.
