POSCO to withdraw investment from Odisha?

Bloomberg report says company has been trying to get government agencies to return the money it had paid

On troubled grounds

An open invitation to avaricious plantation companies, the proposed Karnataka Land Reform Act amendments will Hurt poor farmers

7.5 billion and counting: How many humans can the Earth support?

Data suggests that the Earth can support at most one-fifth of the present population, 1.5 billion people, at an American standard of living

One of the biggest threats to the environment - desertification, explained

At an ongoing global workshop on desertification, the Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said desertification threatens 30% of India’s …

Official doublespeak stumps Udaipur villagers

An Udaipur NGO has been summoned to court because a community hall it helped the residents of Vasu village set up allegedly encroaches on …

More or less equal

God made all humans equal, but some are more equal than others when it comes to consuming the world's resources

Panel submits draft of West Bengal land use policy

Recommends ban on government land acquisition for industrial use

Bombay high court gives six weeks' time to Lavasa

Asks to submit documents to environment ministry by March 10

Writing on the wall: Groundwater exploitation is triggering subsidence in Indo-Gangetic plain

Groundwater levels are declining rapidly, apart from threat of building collapse

Desertification in India: Mining monstrous for Goa, but urbanisation digs a bigger hole

Lack of planning has potential of becoming the biggest degrader of land in Goa

Uttaranchal farmers upset at upcoming tea estates

SEZs and socialism

Centre wakes up to Naxal menace

Curfew on tribals

For protesting road construction for steel industry hub

Another India is (not) ours

Farming made unprofitable

Odisha diaries: the struggle for community control over land, forests and natural resources

No matter how much compensation is promised, companies will need ‘a social licence’ to conduct business on the land of the people

Property is a right: SC

Analysis of judgement shows State retains supremacy

Remembering Kalinganagar - Will cheap and dirty industrialization work?

Displaced by settlers: Tribal communities in Kerala’s Attappady block are being alienated from their land

Laws in place to protect their rights, but no means to enforce it

Long road to justice

The new land acquisition bill promises much but has little to ensure delivery

Kerala court allows law violation

Permits use of paddy field unfit for cultivation for other purposes

NREGS expansion

1,300 villages, common agenda

Gram sabhas resolve to get rights over community-owned land and resources registered

Research can play a crucial role in combating desertification: Experts

Synergy between scientists, government and farming communities can help reclaim degraded lands