Adani project in Mundra has violated environmental norms: MoEF committee report

Report recommends reform of coastal zone regulations, establishment of environment restoration fund

Demolition orders for Banyan Tree luxury resort

Seven-star deluxe villa resort was built on an islet in Vembanad backwaters, a Ramsar site, with full cooperation of state agencies

Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link on hold

National Green Tribunal orders not to begin construction on the basis of seven-year-old environment clearance

Contest for pesticide

Demand for state control as Pesticides Management Bill is set to be tabled in Parliament

Unplanned urbanisation, encroachment blamed for Srinagar flood

Illegal structures had mushroomed on Jhelum’s banks and around lakes, clogging drainage channels

Breastfeeding week kicks off amid concerns over unlawful tactics by baby food companies

Health activists call for effective implementation of regulations that ban promotion of baby foods and feeding bottles for infants

Production and sale of baby food to be monitored

Non-profits and two autonomous state agencies authorised to lodge complaints regarding violations. Will that be enough to bring violators to book?

River flood plains remain go zones

Environment ministry dithers on notification seeking to regulate construction activities in flood plains

Living on the edge

Coastal South Asia is fragile and vulnerable to climate change impacts. Yet, governments are setting up industries, ports and promoting tourism …

Discontinuous functions and environmental regulation

Environmental economics generally employs marginal logic. This is often useful for conceptual demonstrations even if not always literally …

Simply Put: The war we do not see

How to make invisible groundwater visible

Sustainable vision is key to balancing current needs and future demands

Simply put: Why pesticide

Punjab bans sale of toxic pesticides; CSE urges similar necessary action by the Centre

Calls for Central government to follow suit in the interest of public health

Diminishing effect

Is civil society suffering from ‘dependency syndrome’? Here is the way forward

Space of civil society in operating environment has gradually shrunk

In Court

Ministers spar over Navi Mumbai airport

Maharashtra coastal authority clears its EIA report

Pesticide Management Bill 2020: What could have made it better

The bill was introduced after much delay

CMZ dropped

Amendment without correction

Mines and minerals amendment bill falls short of meaningful reform

Sinking low

Road open for development

Tweak in Chennai landuse to sidestep coastal norms

Two-third of the world population lives in water-scarce areas

WaterAid report warns of the threats of growing water scarcity across the globe

‘Sewage treatment plant near Rushikulya will spell doom for Olive Ridleys’

The construction of the proposed plant will also violate Coastal Regulation Zone norms