News Snippets

Planting trees is not doing your bit

Small initiatives to save energy can go a long way in curbing emissions

Bring farmers to farms

Jindal power plant risk to alphonsos

It can function without treating SO2, says environment ministry

Perhaps yes, minister

Green alert in Navi Mumbai

Coal mine expansion made easy

One-time capacity expansion does not require public hearing, says environment ministry

Lavasa accepts green riders, finally

It had challenged the conditions, saying it would amount to guilt  

Elite in an ivory tower

Slack approach

Zone of contention

Global food systems emissions alone can cause global warming to exceed 1.5°C: CSE report

Food systems emit more than transportation and energy use in buildings

Religion V environment

Bonn and beyond

The climate change meeting at Bonn tentatively agreed to postpone resolution of issues

In nature's backyard

New eco-friendly market towns can stop downhill migration

Caught guessing

The world loves a rogue

Children of war: the real casualties are the poor and the marginalised

News snippets

Simply Put: The ‘civilisation bus’

Simply Put: Aarey online-offline

DTE launches annual ‘State of India’s Environment In Figures’

Annual book comes ahead of Environment Day & amid Stockholm+50

Ethos of a sinking space: Fishers in Sundarbans surmount tiger attacks, bureaucracy to earn livelihoods

They also struggle with dwindling fish stocks and unknown fish diseases 

Cyclone Tauktae: At least 25 killed in west coast, widespread devastation in Gujarat

As many as 122 COVID-19 hospitals in the affected areas faced power outages

Massive forest fire in Mizoram

Beijing’s ‘sandstorm’ was actually a dust storm — and that’s much worse

Smaller, lighter dust particles may travel much, much further than sand.