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FeaturesSukinda: Top of the Dirty Thirty heap Sukinda valley in Orissa has made it to the top ten of the world’s 30 most polluted places. Seventy years of intensive open-cast chromite mining have resulted in a scarred landscape, toxic water and soil, ruined agricultural fields, degraded forestland, and populations that are being slowly poisoned More... Silent Valley buffer zone: Major step in environment protectionIn a move that's being hailed by environmentalists, the Kerala government has decided to set up a 148 sq km buffer zone around the Silent Valley National Park, home to a rich variety of flora and fauna. This should put to rest fears of a new hydel power generation project coming up in the area More... Break it up and speed aheadAlthough not a new phenomenon, the trend of breaking up various components of an infrastructure or industrial project in order to bypass environmental clearances and seemingly reduce the project's overall impact, is gaining in popularity all across India More... Give developing countries incentives to maintain their forests: StiglitzJoseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics, explains how climate change has globalised the consequences of pollution, and describes an initiative that addresses it and global poverty at the same time More... Orissa's tribals: Give us only what's rightfully oursTribals living near the Badrama Wildlife Sanctuary in Orissa step up their demand for rights over natural resources, in keeping with the new Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest-Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006 More... Northeast of EdenIndia chooses to showcase the northeast as an exotic tourist destination of great natural beauty. Several documentaries at a recent environmental film festival in Guwahati showed it as a neglected corner of the country, with gaunt tribals and civil and political unrest More... Indian tobacco giant turns carbon philanthropistEnvironmentalists and international justice groups are voicing their concerns over proliferating tree plantations, as developing countries try to profit from a growing carbon trade. The India Tobacco Company claims to have stepped into the carbon sinks business in order to benefit village communities. But who really profits? More... 'Acronyms are killing the planet'Jargon-laden negotiations ensured a Kafkaesque crisis of communications at the just-concluded climate change conference in Nairobi More... Kashipur's 13-year anti-mining struggle vindicatedThe Report of the Indian People's Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights has termed UAIL's bauxite mining operations in Orissa's Kashipur region unconstitutional, illegal and against the people's interests and demands that it be scrapped. Will the state ignore these concerns in the mad rush to speed up industrial development? More... |
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