Avoiding tragic elephant deaths through policy intervention

The wildlife conservation agenda in India is largely driven by an elitist mindset that is insensitive and disregardful of the real sufferings of …

CWH Guidelines will decimate Protected Areas

A bare reading of the procedure outlined in the Guidelines makes it obvious that it is not facilitating a scientific analysis to secure wildlife …

Supreme abuse

Bulk drug makers at Patancheru continue to pollute in the absence of effective vigilance, shows an analysis by the Centre for Science and Environment

Tiger reserved

Tiger tourism booms without proper regulation; new guidelines attempt to contain damage

Green rider for GDP

World is moving towards natural capital as a measure of economic growth

Call the monitor

Battle for Niyamgiri turns ugly

Odisha government tries to manipulate forest rights claims of Niyamgiri tribals

The MoEF-NHAI roadblock

Two Central government arms fight over de-linking of forest, environment clearances

Audit of India's water bodies confirms their polluted status

CAG assessment reveals governments' inaction in curbing water pollution

Rs 3,300 crore omission

Subsidies given annually to industries for pollution control are unmonitored

Land acquisition for Posco begins

White asbestos finds backers at Rotterdam Convention

National biodiversity plan admits India has failed to conserve biodiversity

Open cast mining threatens Assam

A measure of pollution

An order of chaos

National Green Tribunal's decision to declare an area of 10 km radius around Okhla Bird Sanctuary as ecologically sensitive has put the future …

One river, two origins

Industrialists are trying to push the origin of the Nag river downstream to capture its upper stretch for real estate business

Wasteland or wetland?

Three panels’ reports later, green tribunal wants re-evaluation of Nirma project site

Polluting units shut in Kaziranga

Green tribunal fines state, Centre for allowing stone crushers, brick kilns near Assam park

Package POSCO

The Odisha government is trying to acquire land on a shoddily drawn compensation package

Does the Supreme Court order mean eviction of forest dwellers right away?

Some reasons why the rejection of FRA does not amount to a claimant being an encroacher

MoEF halts civil work to raise level of Dhari Devi temple for Alaknanda dam

Hydropower project developer asked to wait for Supreme Court decision  

Govt's fast tracking of draft rules on antibiotic residues commendable

It will position India as a responsible nation tackling antimicrobial resistance, besides improving conditions in preventing the menace 

Can forest clearance grantees have their names added in record of rights, MoEF&CC asks states

The environment ministry on February 22 wrote to all states, seeking their views on the matter, according to documents

CSE praises NTPC’s fly ash transfer move from its Rihand plant

Such steps, if replicated, can help address the issue of overabundance of fly ash piling up in major power-producing states of India