Interviews (Environment)

‘Fragile terrain not the cause of tunnel collapse but an excuse’
Environment

‘Fragile terrain not the cause of tunnel collapse but an excuse’

Aditya Misra
7 min read
Australian geologist Arnold Dix remembers the rescue operation he assisted to save 41 workers trapped in the collapsed Silkyara Bend-Barkot tunnel in Uttarakhand
In war-ravaged South Sudan, environmental conservation is being used as a clarion call to bring peace
Africa

In war-ravaged South Sudan, environmental conservation is being used as a clarion call to bring peace

Ngala Killian Chimtom
7 min read
Nature can be a uniting force that helps encourage dialogue and cooperation between warring factions or neighbouring countries
Western societies cannot do without migrants: Amitav Ghosh
Environment

Western societies cannot do without migrants: Amitav Ghosh

Rajat Ghai
8 min read
Author speaks to Down To Earth about climate change, migration and a planet in crisis
There are big companies in China lobbying to build dams: Claude Arpi
‘Manufacturers manipulate chemicals to escape regulations’
‘Multinational companies think they are above the law’
‘Chemicals being invented, released too rapidly for scientists to track’
The ‘Ateshgah’ in Baku was actually a Jvala Mukhi temple dedicated to Goddess Durga and maintained by Indian merchants during the 17th-19th centuries. It was often mistaken to be a Zoroastrian fire temple by visitors.
India would be an environmental disaster zone even if climate change did not exist: Ramachandra Guha
Future languages will be less ‘auditory’ and more ‘pictorial’: G N Devy
Lalit Kumar
‘The project will facilitate physical and cultural decimation of indigenous people’
The Mashco Piro on the banks of the Las Piedras river
To move is not only desirable, but will become necessary. Irish Travellers could be at the forefront of this change: Sandhya Devesan
This photograph of a Kobigaan performance was taken at the Sundarban Kristi Mela O Loko Sanskriti Utsab (December 20 to 29, 2015), organised by the Kultali Milon Tirtha Society at Kultali village, Narayantala, Basanti, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. Photo credit: Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 3.0
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