Genetically modified food: Whose health, whose business
People are concerned about the possibility of eating GM food. Can we not expect the government to ensure that they have the right to choose?
Data key for driving action so critical in our world: Sunita Narain on launch of State of Environment in Figures 2024
Report points to these priorities for planning: water scarcity, water pollution, air pollution in cities and declining public transport
Zero the way to go
Investigation: Indian voluntary carbon market may not benefit people, climate
A probe into the carbon market and offsetting projects in 40 locations across India
Shadow of storms
The fact is that storms of 2018 hold a mirror to our future
Joshimath, a well-engineered calamity
Sinking of the Himalayan town shows we have completely lost the ability to plan keeping in mind the ecological uniqueness of fragile areas
कितनी राहत देगा “पाप” कर?
सोफ्ट ड्रिंक्स में कर की दर 40 प्रतिशत की गई है। इनमें सभी कोला और जंक पेय पदार्थ शामिल हैं जिनमें बड़ी मात्रा में ...
स्थानीयकरण की दस्तक
2017 में हमें निरंकुश उपभोक्तावाद पर टिके विकास के मॉडल पर विचार करना चाहिए। गरीबों की छोड़िए, ये अमीरों के भी काम का भी ...
पेरिस समझौते के 5 साल: अब बड़े कदम उठाने की जरूरत
मौजूदा कार्बन उत्सर्जन के स्तर को देखते हुए 1.5 डिग्री के लक्ष्य को पूरा करने में साल 2030 तक दुनियाभर का कार्बन बजट खत्म ...
Air pollution in Delhi-NCR: Smoke and mirrors
Cleaning Delhi's air needs concerted and year-long action on all fronts; because it concerns our health; our right to breathe
COVID-19: Let’s not paper over this time
As India restarts the economy, its top agenda should be public infrastructure and health services
Deadly air: face it
Leaving Delhi for a less-polluted city would mean accepting defeat. And not many have the option. Instead, we must fight the battle against …
Bending backward for good food
We need to make the connection between what we eat and why we eat it. Because if we lose the knowledge and culture of our local cuisines then we …
Resource literacy of the poor
We must invest in economies of poor, build capacities so they can withstand & overcome calamity
हमारे बच्चे, हमारा भविष्य, हमारे मार्गदर्शक
जलवायु परिवर्तन के खिलाफ 16 साल की ग्रेटा अर्नमैन थन्बर्ग की लड़ाई आगे बढ़ रही है। इससे हम सबक ले सकते हैं।
Solving India's garbage problem
Segregation at source should be at the heart of municipalities’ solid waste management system
The bogey of green clearances
विज्ञान का कपट
इस बात के प्रमाण हैं कि यह रसायन जहरीला है फिर भी सरकारें इस पर प्रतिबंध लगाने से क्यों हिचक रही हैं? आखिर हम ...
व्यवहार की गुत्थी
सरकार का खुद का आंकड़ा बताता है कि सूचना, शिक्षा और संचार के लिए आवंटित धन में से केवल 0.8 प्रतिशत ही खर्च किया ...
Waste not the dissent
For so long we have used backyards of our cities as dumping grounds, but people in poor neighbourhoods are saying enough is enough
Seethe against smog, now
Why is it we cannot get our act together to implement actions against air pollution?
Farmers need support, period
It is time we talked about the real cost of our food, about how to benefit farmers who grow our food
जलवायु परिवर्तन के नाम पर हो रहा कार्रवाई का ढकोसला
यह गौर करने वाली बात है कि जलवायु समझौतों में जिन तरकीबों की काफी प्रशंसा होती है, वे प्रायः पेचीदा समझौतों पर जाकर खत्म ...
CoP18, Doha: An assessment A Gateway that leads nowhere
For the past 20 years, the world has been haggling about who will cut greenhouse gas emissions and how much.
Environmental challenges: Desperate crises but also opportunity for inclusion
The Centre for Science and Environment has been awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2018. Here is the …