Duplicity

Bending rules

How Vedanta's refinery came up

Is it a forest?

How different agencies see it

City on trial

Chandigarh resists luxury residential project but fails to rehabilitate its slum population to preserve its master plan

Disowned 100,000

Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh for decades but law does not recognise them. FRA gives hope

907 km from parliament

In the past two months, India has revisited its most contested dam, the Sardar Sarovar Project. While people affected by it in Madhya Pradesh …

Scorching salt

As the world celebrates yet another Environment Day, groups of marginalized people in some part of the globe or the other get evicted from their …

Odisha’s model colony for climate refugees in Kendrapara should be emulated across India

More than 45 million people in the country will be forced to migrate due to environmental disruptions by 2050 

Climate shocks, conflicts worsen displacement in Mozambique: UNHCR

Mozambique dealing with climate-induced migration in south, conflict-induced migration in north

Desperate for dam

Government skews facts to plan a project in Rajasthan that will displace 100,000 people

POSCO gets final clearance

Environment ministry sides with Odisha government, ignores people’s forest rights

In Focus

NO TO DAMS

Udipi farmers' land taken over for thermal power plant

Fissures in West Bengal's Left government over land acquisition

Mundra SEZ spells displacement for fisherfolk

Tigers in, people out

POSCO review body divided

Members differ on steel giant’s compliance with regulations

1,620.361 ha of discontent

Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are …

Mining firms set up shop in Orissa

Lanjigarh block, Kalahandi, Orissa, May 17: At its summit, the northeastern ridge of the Niyamgiri hill range has a bald patch, typical of …

CSE-DTE mark World Environment Day with release of State of India’s Environment 2023: In Figures

A highlight of this year’s report is a ranking of Indian states on parameters like environment, agriculture, public health and infrastructure

Short-distance migrations help communities manage climate shocks: Study

Many migrate short distances inside their own countries to harness opportunities out there or adapt to shocks and stressors in their life

Taungyas get legal recognition

Land titles distributed to 651 families in six Uttar Pradesh villages

Misguided rules

Environment ministry framed guidelines which violate Forest Rights Act

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