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Houseboats can be easily blamed for pollution in Kerala’s Lake Vembanad. The actual pollution crisis though goes much deeper
Water

Houseboats can be easily blamed for pollution in Kerala’s Lake Vembanad. The actual crisis though goes much deeper

Ashish Mathew George
4 min read
The challenge facing Vembanad is not whether houseboat tourism should exist, but how tourism can coexist within a fragile social-ecological system
Supreme Court’s new push on solid waste management: Are states ready for a new era of waste governance?
Waste

Supreme Court’s new push on solid waste management: Are states ready for a new era of waste governance?

Mou Sengupta
6 min read
District collectors gain unprecedented enforcement powers as four-stream segregation, bulk generator duties and online monitoring redefine new waste management regime
India’s waste economy runs on invisible workers. Climate policy keeps forgetting them
Waste

India’s waste economy runs on invisible workers. Climate policy keeps forgetting them

Utkarsh Mishra
6 min read
The informal waste worker isn’t a minor detail in India’s waste management story; she is, for many cities, a crucial part of the solution
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