Bandwagon role for joint forestry

Though programmes involving villagers in the regeneration of forest lands have been successful, caution should be exercised while bringing new …

Lost in the Thar

The Indira Gandhi canal project is a costly failure that has led to destruction of habitat and loss of arable land

TOXIC TRAIL

A small area in northern Vadodara is cluttered with nearly 200 industries, most of them dealing in chemicals. This has created serious …

Guiding growth

When nothing seemed to stop the desertification of the Banni grasslands, a government institution stepped in and showed the people how they …

China's reforms

Land use in China is in for irretrievable change. At the Third Plenum of the 16th Party Congress, held October 11-14, 2003, the world's biggest …

Zimbabwean unsettles its resettled farmers

Salwa Judum

The face of state government’s counter-insurgency strategy

Till the last drop

Essar gets Bailadila prospecting lease

Win for indigenous rights: Ecuador court halts mining project in Amazon

Environmental licence for Panantza-San Carlos Mining Project rejected; Project overlapped Shuar Arutam territory but community not consulted

Tribal governance, Salwa Judum and Maoists

Maoist insurgents killed Mahendra Karma, founder of the anti-Maoist Salwa Judum campaign, in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur district on Saturday. …

A year after Kalinganagar firing, tribal India refuses to shine

Four murders and a power plant

Letters

All about the new land acquisition Bill

Proposed law will replace the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 and unlike the British-era Act it provides for rehabilitation and resettlement as well

Land unrest set to increase in India: study

Enforcement and strengthening of laws that protect land rights of tribals and forest dwellers recommended

National Centre for Advocacy Studies' new report 'Sponge iron industries'

Report>>Sponge Iron Industries Issues and Campaigns, National Centre for Advocacy Studies, Pune 2007

Forest conservation is too complex an issue to be resolved by executive fiat

The condition of India's forest and her forest dwellers is extremely grave. A fresh round of police attacks on tribal people -- four dead in Dewas,…

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2024: 30 years after UNCCD adoption, UN urges globe to ‘unite for land’

Up to 40 per cent of the world’s land and nearly half the world’s population are affected by land degradation  

India’s northeastern states desertifying most rapidly

Half of Nagaland is degraded, flags new report

Land degradation makes containing floods and droughts tough

Water erosion accounts for more than 50 per cent of total degraded area in India

Desertification in India: Canal, tubewells make saline Jaisalmer green

Increasing agricultural activity reversed soil erosion in the district

Delhi Declaration might downplay international finance institutions’ role in mitigating desertification

A key paragraph has been proposed for deletion in the draft declaration

What are ‘planetary boundaries’ and why should we care?

In six out of nine vital life support systems, we have blown well past the safe zone

Joshimath sinking: Land subsidence worsened due to stopping flow of water, suggests NIH

Part 5: The Roorkee institute has advised making channels for the flow of water in cities situated in mountains