by Aanchal Pruthi | Jun 18, 2018 | Climate Change, Home, News, Pollution
Dust Storms hit Delhi. In fact, the whole of North India has been hit by severe dust storms over the past week. Dust Storms have caused the deaths of about 125 people and has injured several others. It particularly hit the national capital Delhi and adjoining areas,...
by Urmi Bhattacharjee | Jun 13, 2018 | Climate Change, Home, News, Pollution, Rivers, Solar, Wildlife
Unable to improve air quality, protect biodiversity, and cut greenhouse gas emissions, India, say available data, stands today at the rock bottom of Global Environment Performance Index (EPI) rankings for 2018. In the year 2016, India ranked 141 of 180 countries. In...
by Satya Narayana Sahu | Jun 6, 2018 | Climate Change, Home, News, Pollution, Sustainability
Whenever the issue of environment and sustainable development is taken up for discussion people invariably take a quote or two from the Brundtland Commission report of 1987, the Limits to Growth report of the Club of Rome of 1972 or some other UN Document of 1980s....
by Ushi Fatma | Jun 5, 2018 | Climate Change, Home, News, Pollution, Solar
Civil society needs to repeatedly make people aware as well as responsible for their actions. That is where the citizens you and I come in. The best thing which we can do for the environment today is reduce the use of plastics in our lives. India will host the World...
by Himanshu Thakkar | Jun 2, 2018 | Climate Change, Food, Home, Rivers, Solar, Sustainability
In order to assess if the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project (SSP) is good or bad for India, we need a credible assessment of costs, benefits, and impacts once the huge project is completed. First of all, the project is incomplete (even after down-scaling canal network by...
by The Third Pole | Jun 1, 2018 | Climate Change, Health and Fitness, Home, Rivers
The Ganga, which is already in bad shape due to increasing pollution and decreasing water, is now also swiftly moving away from its banks in Patna, the capital of the Indian state of Bihar. No scientific attempt has been made to deal with the crisis, warn experts and...
