GUYANA

Chasing a paper (d)ream

Since the 1990s, the use of recycled paper has unfortunately reduced by half

Taking the issue Due North

Why are wood bazaars illicit?

Rampant government corruption and faulty institutions bedevil agroforestry in India

Killer chlorine

Once hailed as a boon to health, chlorine is now charged with being carcinogenic, maiming the immune and the reproductive systems.

Managing the woods

Sustainable forest management is a concept hostage to many global players

After a 23-year-long battle, Tamil Nadu's Sterlite plant finally shuts down, permanently

On Monday evening, the state government passed a government order to shut down Vedanta group's Serlite copper smelting plant permanently

Anti-Sterlite protest in Tamil Nadu turns violent, at least 11 killed in police firing

At least 30 others were injured when police opened fire to quell the protest

Grasim unit pulled up

Compensation for pollution victims urged

Industries eye forest land for plantations

Wood-based firms want to convert forest areas to their own use for raw material. In doing so, they ignore the fate of millions of rural poor, who …

Killer chlorine

Once hailed as a boon to health, chlorine is now charged with being carcinogenic, maiming the immune and the reproductive systems.

Sulphuric acid leak in Sterlite plant: 50,000 litres to be shifted to a safe destination

The sterlite plant used to sell about 600,000 tonnes of sulphuric acid

India's sawmill policy filled with loopholes

India's sawmill regulation

GREEN WARRIOR

Betrayal via bamboo

Largest paper manufacturer is using most of the bamboo in Maharashtra, leaving little for residents

India’s MSMEs must pare emissions and climate finance may be the nudge they need

Traditional funds are not enough for the MSME sector to achieve decarbonisation; we need to unlock international climate funds as well

Jaypee powers ahead in Himachal

‘Company built power plant illegally; managed clearance’  

Environment ministry, Tamil Nadu Pollution Board must own up to Tuticorin killings

Until we reform environmental governance fundamentally, cases like Sterlite will keep happening and environmental conflicts will only grow

Africa Mining Vision finds support of governments, private companies

The Africa Mining Vision (AMV) has been designed to ensure that mining activities contribute to economic transformation and benefit all African …

Gujarat RIL case study shows weaknesses of environmental impact assessment in India

Focus on economic growth has diluted the EIA in India

Dying Sabarmati: Polluting units to be named, shamed and prosecuted, says Gujarat HC

Stopping pollution is everybody’s collective responsibility, says Gujarat High Court

Madras HC stays expansion of Sterlite copper smelter; power supply cut

Protests against the expansion of the smelter have been going on for three months

Industrial blackmail!

Having done precious little to clean up its polluting act in the past 30 years, a Kerala factory is indirectly blackmailing the state government …

Clean blow

Reliance asked to guarantee Rs 300 crore for new plant

Don’t say bamboo

Aparna Pallavi travels to Gadchiroli district to find out why villages relinquished forest rights