Trash to cash

Paper mill recycles cartons, makes tissue paper, furniture

Rs 3,300 crore omission

Subsidies given annually to industries for pollution control are unmonitored

Bamboo under siege

Gadchiroli villages relinquish forest rights to Ballarpur paper mill

Crank it up

Sugar mills in India are doubling up as power generators by burning crushed sugarcane or bagasse. But with the price of bagasse rising, their …

Resource war India after 2020

If the developing world today is the locus of climate change  mitigation, including reduction in emissions, then there surely must exist a …

Bamboo rising

Five years after it was implemented, the Forest Rights Act finally takes root. Communities across the country rush to claim rights over forests …

Half-way to autonomy

Decisions by Maharashtra’s top forest official can empower gram sabhas prepare plans to revive their forests, but a policy is awaited

Forest to farms

India's paper industry now sources more wood from farmers. Why does it still demand forestland?

Seeing land for trees

The big idea for change: bamboo as grass

Don’t say bamboo

Aparna Pallavi travels to Gadchiroli district to find out why villages relinquished forest rights

8% FOREVER

Per capita emissions will remain competitively low  

Some sectors will struggle to be the best, some can’t as they operate in tropical India

Crank it up

Smokestacks lightening?

Emissions are bound to increase. The power sector improves, but others will spew more, especially iron and steel

Some sectors perform at the global best levels, others can reach there

Money makers

Indonesia gets angry

Battle over paper

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A reprieve for the paper industry

Jute fibre, which could provide a solution to the increasing crisis in procuring wood pulp, could be science's gift to the paper industry.

New role for earthworms as sewage cleaners

A Pune-based research institute has developed a process that employs earthworms to remove impurities from waste water.

A PEOPLE'S VERDICT

Timber wastes land

Effluent music

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