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FeaturesClimate change: Satabhaya village in Orissa goes under
In 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... Who killed Earth Day?Hank Stueyer of The Washington Post writes that Earth Day is dead, following a long but admirable struggle with celebrity piety and corporate baloney and, more specifically, too many ‘green’ issues in too many magazines. A roundup of what other newspapers and websites had to say on April 22 More... Suru Anna and the people’s protestThe massive April 1 rally in Kujang, Orissa, was a critical milestone in the three-year anti-POSCO agitation More... Losing the sand beneath their feetThe black sand of Kollam district in coastal Kerala is classified as ‘strategic’ because it contains minerals for atomic energy and defence applications. Therefore, indiscriminate mining of the sand can continue, regardless of damage to the ecosystem and the livelihoods of people More... The cost of conservationThousands of tribal families lived in the 56 hamlets within the Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka. Denied access to forest resources, many have moved out without adequate compensation, while the rest continue to battle a State that seems to deny their existence. Will the new Forest Rights Act change anything for them? More... The trouble with nuclear energyThe third national conference of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, held in Nagpur from February 1 to 3, 2008, went beyond the politics of nuclear militarisation and looked at the human, environmental and social questions intertwined with the issue More... The plunder of Kerala's riversThe Portuguese adventurer Vasco da Gama came to Kerala to plunder its material wealth. Five hundred years on, modern-day plunderers are busy robbing the state of its waters and other environmental assets More... Sukinda: Top of the Dirty Thirty heapSukinda 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... |
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