Data fudged for mining clearance

Iron ore mines in Goa also concealed facts to get environmental clearance, shows report

Forest value to be revised

50 per cent of net present value of forests should go to communities, says report

POSCO: take land but give life

Partial ban

New rules ban metalised plastic only in tobacco sachets

Misguided rules

Environment ministry framed guidelines which violate Forest Rights Act

IN SHORT

Protest for Kali river water

Efficiency versus democracy

Tawa Matsya Sangh, fishing co-operative in Madhya Pradesh, loses licence

Stink of India's steel frame

A pause on hydropower

A recent report could check expansion of hydro projects in Himachal Pradesh

In the name of the tiger

The current conservation model has led to increased human-wildlife conflicts

Thin end of wedge

Why Vedanta's success will be bad news

Big impact

Mining will tax area's natural resources

Billed to confuse

A new bill leaves little scope for dissent on GMOs

Police clears way for POSCO

Batons and bullets chase agitators blocking access to steel plant site  

Biodiversity body claims coal

In a first-of-its-kind case, a biodiversity committee in Madhya Pradesh asks for royalty on coal

‘MoEF violated Supreme Court order’

Ministry’s own panel says it should not have given clearances to two Uttarakhand projects

Environment ministry rapped

Parliament committee says serious inadequacies in afforestation, biodiversity programmes

MoEF expert panel recommends moratorium on mining, power projects in Konkan

Report kept in wraps calls attention to adverse environmental and social impacts of ongoing industrial activities

Stay on land allotment for thermal power plant in Sompeta

Andhra Pradesh government had alloted 394 ha of wetlands terming it wasteland; farmers and fisherman were unhappy

POSCO unplugged

Sayantan Bera travels to Jagatsinghpur in Odisha to find that villagers labeled ‘pro’ POSCO do not have a choice otherwise

Project Tiger, CAMPA funds used to finance cheetah project: Centre

Barda wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat being developed as a second home for Asiatic lions

Dedicated Freight Corridor in western India gets forest clearance

The corridor is close to Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai

Bird flu deaths on the rise, environment ministry issues guidelines

As many as 250 crows in Rajasthan, 1,700 migratory birds in Himachal Pradesh have died since December 2020