In court

In Court

Environmental clearance for Polavaram quashed

Tata Mundra power project blamed for falling fish catch

Project yet to become fully functional has already destroyed creeks and mangroves, says report 

News Briefs

A mistake of judgment

Pioneering though the work has been, judicial activism has restricted the growth of a responsible and independent bureaucracy

An ecological triumph goes sour

Kerala celebrates silver jubilee of the Silent Valley project, but dismisses conservation measures

Real estate on water

Lakes were critical for Indian cities. They prevented floods and recharged groundwater. Today, these holes in the ground are either lucrative …

Orissa calling

Are all environment lovers environmentalists?

Monkey relocation plan: Urban bias?

Invasion of tiger reserve

Are religious pilgrimages only about faith and religion?

Martyr and a court ruling

Wetlands in Howrah still ravaged by real estate

Polluter doesnt pay

Dow owns Union Carbide assets, but refuses liability

Test tube brinjal

Duplicity

No one is cleaning up

25 years on, thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste is scattered around the Union Carbide factory

A pause on hydropower

A recent report could check expansion of hydro projects in Himachal Pradesh

Double Standards

Safety regulations are for imported toys only  

When lakes were tanks

Bengaluru's lakes were actually tanks created in the absence of a big river

Nimalapedu Zero

Why liquidate our future?

Delhi hospitals freed of poor

Delhi High Court exempts four private hospitals from treating the poor for free. Experts fear other hospitals will follow

Whose corridor is it?

A proposed elephant corridor has turned eco-sensitive Sigur plataeu into a war zone

Bitter sweet

Who should have the first right over sugar produced by Uttar Pradesh's sugar mills - the banks who loaned the mills or the farmers who supplied …