World Water Day: How mining is depleting groundwater in Rajasthan’s Alwar
Illegal mining in the Aravalli Hills has destroyed hillocks, brought prosperity to locals and depleted the groundwater table
People goaded to save their forests
Fed up with government inaction on mining and deforestation in the Aravallis, the people of the region are taking it upon themselves to end the …
At the feet of poverty
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In Court
SC rebukes Haryana govt for throwing open Aravallis for realtors, miners
The apex court asked the state to not amend the Punjab Land Preservation Act that “favours builders”
The Eklingapura experience
A joint forest management initiative succeeded at Eklingapura mainly because foresters were able to respond to the needs of the community.
Haryana's move to expose Aravallis to 'development' may turn Delhi into a desert
Already vulnerable gaps in the hills may no longer be able to protect north India from the Thar
Requiem for wasteland development
Aravalis mining ban
Digging their own grave
Extracting minerals and ornamental stone in the Aravallis - despit its environmental costs - is such a flourishing economic activity that …
Rajasthan's ambitions
Healthy move, say environmentalists,hegemony, complain states
The Rajasthan and Haryana governments feel threatened by the Centre's move to stop industrial, mining and quarrying activity in the Aravalli …
Order toned down
Aravallis: A mountain lost
The mountain range's role in defining the shape of the Indian subcontinent and its climate, and the fact that it triggered the explosion of …
Digging the earth
Earlier it was deforestation, now it is mining that threatens the once stately Aravallis with total destruction
Sylvan suburbia: Why a forest corridor between Delhi and Haryana needs legal protection
Apart from housing rich wildlife, the forest corridor spread across Gurugram, Faridabad and the Asola Sanctuary also protects the National …
Decline of the Aravallis
The pressure on land threatens the vivid and spectacular biodiversity of these hills
Aravallis razed
Repeated court orders fail to save part of the primitive mountain range in Alwar from mining
Razing Aravalls (Video Special)
Residents of Harla ki Dhani in Rajasthan discuss effects of illegal mining in the Aravallis
Dust, high temperatures bring Delhi’s air quality down to 'poor'
The Aravalli range plays a critical role in checking sand migration from the Thar Desert to Delhi-NCR; but they now stand degraded
Faridabad mining clearances questioned by SC
Unhappy Bani
March of real estate threatens one of the last patches of native Aravalli forest near Delhi
A walk through Mangar Bani, a sacred grove near Delhi