Plenty of Permits

Tropical storm Ashobaa threatens Oman

Severe weather conditions expected in Oman from June 10

Halt deforestation by 2030: Are we on track to meet global pledge?

Brazil was the world’s largest contributor to deforestation in 2021

Centre made over 100 changes in Environment Impact Assessment Notification in past 5 years

The year 2022-23 saw the highest number of changes introduced in the notification 

Reading 2021 NCRB report: Jump in forest-related crimes in Jharkhand

Jharkhand registered the maximum number of crimes under the Forest Act since 2012

Illegal logging in Africa is a threat to security

Illegal logging happens here through small-scale and commercial operations

NGT suspends forest clearance for Arunachal hydropower project

Cancellation of forest clearances is not commonplace, making this decision a rare one

Draft amendment to Forest Act: Javadekar denies, but different pictures at states

Forest department of Telangana has held consultations to amend its forest Act

Over 57k hectares of forest land diverted in Odisha, says new report

Most of the forest land (28,409 hectares) was diverted for 186 mining projects

India lost 668,400 ha forests in 5 years, 2nd highest globally: Report

India was ranked between Brazil and Indonesia in UK-based firm’s report

On a clearing spree? Green nod to 2,250 projects, 270 of them in biodiversity hotspots

After environmental clearances are granted, wildlife clearance becomes a mere formality

Green nod to 87 development projects in 2 years; 2.3 million trees to be felled: MoEFCC

Of these infrastructure projects, three highway projects will fall in Protected Areas

Green tribunal spells its mandate

Forest bureaucracy contended that clearance by the Centre can’t be challenged

Costly push to mega projects

Cabinet Committee for Investment may dilute environmental and forest clearances

SAIL gets pristine forest to mine

MoEF flouts its own order by expanding mine in Saranda without wildlife management plan

India Inc’s new bogey

Industry raises the decibel against green clearances

Desperate for dam

Government skews facts to plan a project in Rajasthan that will displace 100,000 people

OPG flouts environmental laws again

Begins construction without taking forest and CRZ clearance

Bad for people, bad for environment

A new study by Centre for Science and Environment slams system of green clearances

Environment ministry creates a record in forestland diversion

A new study by Centre for Science and Environment slams system of green clearances

Call the monitor

The MoEF-NHAI roadblock

Two Central government arms fight over de-linking of forest, environment clearances

How COVID-19 made forest rights battle tougher for Tharu women

The Adivasi women of Lakhimpur Khiri in eastern UP show resilience

Green clearance test for NDA

States reject 543,432 FRA claims in suo motu review

West Bengal has rejected around 92 per cent of all the reviewed claims