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Mining giant offers peanuts

Villagers make a bonfire of POSCO’s offer in newspaper

Maheshwar dam land acquisition award lapses as developer fails to cough up rehabilitation amount

Officials not clear about the fate of the project

Pune protests Dow research facility

Keep on the grass

Alpine pastures are thriving despite policies to encourage grazing. But Himalayan pastures languish despite strong conservationist policies

Access to water is a crisis for the powerless

Fair access to water is an issue for millions of people in India. Who controls access and how this is governed needs fixing  

Environmental clearance for JSW’s Paradip project in Odisha scrapped by NGT

The principle of sustainable development cannot be ignored, the court said

A third of freshwater fish face extinction: Report

As many as 16 species were declared extinct in 2020 alone

Rewind 2018: Urbanisation creates chaos in India

Challenges and possible solutions to the rising population in urban areas

Centre flouts norms to allow Polavaram construction to resume

Mandatory public hearings are still pending in Odisha and Chhattisgarh

Urban children in slums more vulnerable to health risks, says report

Centres that host most of these vulnerable kids need immediate attention

Drying up of an empire

Water crisis behind the decline of Angkor Wat

Russia's nightmare

Thousands of chemical weapons, once abandoned by the military, are coming back to haunt Russia

Don't let the carbon go

Be careful how land-use and land-cover changes

Promised land

Kerala CM upbeat about 'forestland for tribals' scheme

In Court

Harsh on the marsh

Uttar Pradesh's land reclamation project may hurt many

Bushmen's letter to president

Blame's on chimps

Microbes are always smarter

UNCCD COP14: Droughts most disastrous for agriculture

They cost agriculture $29 billion in a decade, according to a white paper released at the conference

RE-powering Jharkhand: Solar objectives great, but execution may be tough

Coal to clean transformation will need structural transformation of age-old communities

Human activities are eating into reindeer grazing land in Europe

Multiple stresses affect 60% of Fennoscandia region; High risk of vegetation and landscape change in the future, finds study

Punjab shamlat lands: We will give land for housing, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal tells DTE

Punjab reserves 33 per cent of cultivable shamlat land for Dalit households, who can lease it for a year through competitive bidding. In reality, …

Himalayan plunder: Why Sikkim geologists fear Joshimath-like disasters

Sikkim, also in eastern Himalayas, is plagued by unchecked development & lacks strong civil society to voice concerns