Spring of discontent

Mining in Odisha’s Khandadhar hills will dry out perennial water bodies

Land acquisition for Posco begins

Package POSCO

The Odisha government is trying to acquire land on a shoddily drawn compensation package

Deocha-Pachami mining project: Bengal CM proposes heftier compensation. Here‘s why locals aren‘t convinced

The project will impact 4,314 households

Deocha-Pachami mining project: Compensation disbursal begins but details of plan hazy

A total of 203 landowners have received job letters and compensation, said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

Cheated for bauxite

Andhra Pradesh circumvents all regulations to mine bauxite from tribal land

SOUTH AFRICA

Treasure in troubled land

International aid has supported the economy of Afghanistan for 12 years. With aid flow gradually declining, the war-torn country will now have to …

One killed as protest against tribal displacement turns violent

Assembly adjourned as a MLA tears off his shirt

Forest rights activists campaign on Twitter to demand CAMPA repeal

Activsts took to Twitter raising issues about misuse of tribal lands, displacement of communities under Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act 

Brazilian government cancels mega dam on the Amazon’s Tapajós River

The project could have caused flooding of lands and forced displacement of indigenous Munduruku people

Saharias face exile, again

Displaced from Kuno wildlife sanctuary earlier, the tribe is being evicted again for a dam

Why Polavaram is a pointless project

The Polavaram dam involves a huge cost but its benefit will be limited

Baigas in exile

Once called lords of the jungle, the Chhattisgarh tribals are being evicted without adequate relief

In Africa, climate change has exacerbated modern slavery & government response is poor

More than 3.1 million Africans are in forced marriage and more than 3.8 million in forced labour

Old ‘Temples of Modern India’: Can India decommission ageing dams it has been warned about?

Dams have affected new ways of land use and life so much that many societies cannot think of a life beyond them anymore

No consensus on FRA review

Top forest officials and National Forest Rights Act Committee engage in a war of words

Jairam Ramesh withdraws guidelines violating FRA

Fresh guidelines for creating Critical wildlife Habitat to be prepared in consultation with Tribal Affairs ministry

Assam prepares to spend Rs 40,000 crore on an economically unfeasible project

Removing excessive silt from the Brahmaputra by dredging will not solve the problem of annual floods in Assam unless the government pays …

Letters

Letters

Violence at POSCO site

Clashes erupt as government resumes construction of coastal road at Jagatsinghpur in Odisha

Lavasa above law

Lavasa continues to bypass norms. But the environment ministry may give clearance to the the maiden planned hill city in India, Sakshi C Dasgupta …

Halfway through

Tribal affairs ministy attempts to give forest dwellers their due welfare benefits, through a compromise

Mahan at all costs

How government bent all rules to ensure Mahan forest in Madhya Pradesh goes to Essar and Hindalco for mining coal