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Features"How can your development replace our god?" Even as the Supreme Court clears Vedanta’s mining activities in Niyamgiri, Orissa, the Dongria Kondh tribals argue that the abode of their deity cannot be demolished for “development” or profit any more than St Paul’s Cathedral can. It’s a last-ditch stand More... India's coast up for grabsThe 1991 CRZ regulations did put the brakes on indiscriminate development of coastal areas. Now the environment ministry’s draft Coastal Management Zone notification of May 2008 threatens to undermine the law and bring in changes in coastal land use for so-called ‘development’ More... Neutrino physics versus wildlife conservationA cutting-edge neutrino observatory is slated to come up in Singara in the Nilgiris, bang in the middle of a biodiversity hotspot and the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. There are sound geophysical reasons for this choice of location. But there is no doubt that the observatory will irreversibly damage the ecology of the region More... Jungle Raj!A divisional forest officer in Orissa proves that the forest bureaucracy considers itself above the law and, on a whim, can deprive people of rights over their resources. A case in Sambalpur district, where a man had to wait two years for permission to cut and sell some trees on his land, shows how More... Lille: City of the futureThe city of Lille on the French-Belgian border likes to describe itself as a ‘Eurometropolis’. A major European industrial and services hub, the most interesting dimension of Lille is its greening. Lille is the only city in France to convert household waste to biogas, which is then used in public transport More... Jadugoda: Four decades of nuclear exposureEarlier this year there was yet another leak of radioactive sludge from UCIL’s uranium plant in Jadugoda, Jharkhand. The accident and the dismissive official response to it clearly show the low priority the nuclear establishment accords to the safety of Jadugoda’s people More... Shyam Saran: ‘Can lifestyle emissions be pitted against survival emissions?’Shyam Saran, the Indian government’s key negotiator on climate change, explains India’s polluter-pays stand on climate change in international negotiations More... Botezari: Model rehabilitation project, or relocation bungle?Five forest and revenue officials received letters of commendation for the ‘model’ rehabilitation of the village of Botezari. But what do the villagers think? They say they were made false promises and that most of their demands have been ignored More... Climate change: Satabhaya village in Orissa goes underIn this follow-up to Infochange’s exclusive series on the impact of climate change on villages along the Orissa coast, Richard Mahapatra reports on the migration of families across Kendrapara district as the sea reaches their doorsteps More... |
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