Sponge iron industries are killing fields
The sponge iron industry is growing fast and polluting alarmingly. K Radhika in Chhattisgarh and Maureen Nandini Mitra in Jharkhand and Orissa …
Is JFM relevant?
Two Acts give people rights. JFM only promised partnership
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
Curb on mining in Western Ghats
MoEF accepts Kasturirangan report; will declare one-third of the range ecologically sensitive
Mining sans social consent
Andhra Pradesh coal firm’s plan to convert underground mine to open cast will affect people of eight villages
Niyamgiri answers
People veto bauxite mining, but Vedanta is unlikely to let go of the bounty
Half-way to autonomy
Decisions by Maharashtra’s top forest official can empower gram sabhas prepare plans to revive their forests, but a policy is awaited
Forest rights act under scrutiny
Environment ministry does not seem open to criticism
Halfway through
Tribal affairs ministy attempts to give forest dwellers their due welfare benefits, through a compromise
Gods must be dazed
Environment ministry recognises religious rights, pushes ecological concerns behind
Bamboo rising
Five years after it was implemented, the Forest Rights Act finally takes root. Communities across the country rush to claim rights over forests …
Polavaram fraud
The Polavaram dam on the Godavari could displace 400,000 people and submerge nearly 4,000 hectares of forestland. Most of the people threatened …