Creating Resilient Livelihoods in the Sundarbans, Sans Embankments
It was the 1790s. Tillman Henkel, a magistrate appointed by the newly-arrived British, was a busy man. He had the task of developing an...
Reshaping India’s Development Strategy: The Importance of Water Security
Co-authored by Pragya Gupta & Gopika Kumaran
India fails to provide 63 million of its citizens with access to safe, clean water. The water in...
Drains to Diseases: Haryana’s Sanitation Struggle
"My kid falls sick so often because of the stagnant water in these open drains. Why isn't the government doing anything?"
— Asawarpur Resident, Haryana
In...
Behind the “Green” Rationale of Evictions
84,000 Indians were forced out of their homes for “ostensible environmental” reasons in 2020, but there may be more at play here than conservation measures.
Why Do We Need Green Politics In India?
Despite India facing regular environmental and natural crises such as floods and droughts, there is a lack of political representation of the "environment" as...
Carbon Offsets: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, and a Collective Hope Ahead
Carbon offsets may become an excuse for polluters to keep polluting. Emerging technology and regulations hold promise for India.
ZBNF: Will One Size Fit All?
By Vaishnavi Rathore
Zero Budget Natural Farming is a fairly self-explanatory term. An alternative to conventional farming, ZBNF claims to have almost negligible investment in...
Not on Our Commons: Rajasthan’s Villages Fight Against Mining
Vaishnavi Rathore and Deborupa Ghosh
Since the first week of September, Pur, a town in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan has been on an indefinite protest....
The Risky Business of Large Hydropower Dams
On 23 April 2020, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC)—the panel under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change that approves forest clearance for...
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.
