CDM on small industries' agenda

Fatal attraction

Spam in fishing net

Field science

Quit Wardha

Gandhi ashram protests polluting pig iron plant nearby

Unruffled flakes

Pig iron plant of Sesa Goa pollutes South Goa; firm says expansion will take care of problems

Cleared for growth

47 power plants in Vidarbha

Why set up thermal plants when the region is power surplus?

Sun, sea and garbage

Chella Krishnamurthy, 57, murdered

On the shelf?

Concrete invasion

Colombo’s marshes cannot avert floods the way they used to. Construction is to be blamed

Auto yes to coal

High powered panel recommends freeing coal blocks in forests

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 …

Curse of copper

After fouling 10 Madhya Pradesh villages with heavy metals and acid, HCL is set to expand its mine

Stinking for two decades

Industrial effluent is contaminating Gujarat villages, but the authorities have not nailed the culprits

Steeled up

Unable to bear pollution any longer, people in Kotdwar force Uttarakhand to commission an independent assessment of steel factories in the region

Cry of a river

A little known river in UP is struggling for survival. Untreated effluent, delayed action to blame

Interstate dirty dumpers

Industrial units illegally dump hazardous waste in remote fields, often crossing state borders, to dodge the law and cut costs. ravleen kaur …

Operation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners

When Vishnu sleeps

Between Maoists and mines

Ho tribals lose hold of Saranda as mining is set to take over the pristine sal forest. A report and photographs by Sayantan Bera

Pollution glorified

World Bank arm finances polluting steel mill in Jharkhand

Water stress

With about 4 per cent of the water resources of the world, India should have been a water-adequate nation. However, in 2011 India turned into a …

The steel shock