Bihar’s ambulance service staff go on strike

They have not been paid salaries for six months; private companies operating services under PPP model blame government

COVID-19: New assessment pegs 25% GDP slide for April-June

Expects industrial output to halve; inflation may shoot up

Solar power: In a slump India’s booming

India’s booming solar power sector has witnessed a slowdown as distribution companies delay payments to power plants

अंतरराष्ट्रीय जैवविविधता दिवस : मानव और एलियन बने जैवविविधता के दुश्मन

एशिया प्रशांत के द्वीपों और समुद्र में एक नए आक्रमणकारी परिग्रही (एलियन)  ने स्थानीय जैव विविधता के लिए तनाव पैदा कर दिया है। खतरनाक यह ...

ग्रीन बोनस की खैरात नहीं, राॅयल्टी का हक चाहिए: जगत सिंह जंगली

हिमालयन कॉन्कलेव में ग्रीन बोनस की बात आने के बाद पर्यावरण सेवाओं के बदले आर्थिक लाभ के मांग सबसे पहले उठाने वाले जगत सिंह ...

The world needs transformative changes, else...

Humanity will miss Sustainable Development Goals, warns IPBES report

Study sheds light on functioning of global river-based ecosystems

Around 153 researchers from 40 countries worked on the paper, which shows how climatic factors that govern decomposition rates are increasingly …

Banking Ordinance a bold step but silent on considering environmental and social risk management to reduce NPA: CSE

The CSE calls for mandating environmental and social risk management for internal credit risk appraisal process

Found: 'lost' forests covering an area two-thirds the size of Australia

The discovery boosts the total global forest cover by nine per cent and has significant consequences for carbon budgets

Should farmers get steady income?

Farmers have rarely been considered eligible for payment for various ecological services. The old concept of Payment for Ecosystem Services can …

Quantifying ecosystem value crucial for conservation, say experts

Experts gathered at the second international dialogue on Himalayan ecology spoke of valuing mountain ecosystems for their services

In strange waters

Kenyan authorities are caught between reviving a dying lake and ensuring livelihood to farmers living in its catchment

The JNU way out

Union Budget 2021-22: Taxing the working class while corporates profit from COVID-19 pandemic

The assumption that the government is making is that we are where we were one year ago. This is a false claim

‘Revolutionary change’ needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis

If we are to halt the continued loss of nature, then the world’s legal, institutional and economic systems must be reformed entirely

Kenya’s Tana River Delta under threat from development projects

Proposed development projects will have a devastating impact on delta's ecology, biodiversity and livelihood of local people

Supreme Court orders ban on mass sterilisation

The apex court noted evidences of poor quality of care at mass sterilisation camps

Here’s a good news conservation story: farmers are helping endangered ecosystems

There’s been a variety of market-based programs for conservation on farmland in Australia, but we don’t know what the total …

Being sure of genes

Companies are given permission to use genetic tests to decide on insurance policy in the UK

The facade of sharing

Public-private partnership is more about dividing: risks go to the public agency, profits to the private

World Wildlife Day: WWF urges stakeholders to save Europe’s last old-growth forests

These forests, home to the continent’s largest surviving carnivores and offering ecosystem services, were in danger of fragmentation, the …

जग बीती: भारत की हर्ड इम्युनिटी

10 लाख प्रजातियों पर खतरा, इंसान है जिम्मेवार : रिपोर्ट

जैव-विविधता और पारिस्थितिकी सेवाओं के अंतर सरकारी विज्ञान नीति मंच (आईपीबीईएस) ने अपनी वैश्विक आकलन रिपोर्ट जारी कर दी है, जो काफी डराने वाली ...

Surviving through ages

Western ghats’ kathalekan sacred grove retains its vegetation even after a millennium

Revered yet neglected forest patches

Sacred groves not only vary in terms of ecological distribution, but also in terms of property regime, management practice and socio-ecological …