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Nowhere to nest
Olive Ridleys jostle for space at the shrinking Gahirmatha beach in Odisha
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POSCO’s port halt
South Korean company’s steel plant and port may impact coast, says expert panel
Turtles in trouble
Faulty lake development design is pushing rare Bostami turtle of Tripura to extinction in its only known refuge—the Kalyan Sagar lake
POSCO unplugged
Sayantan Bera travels to Jagatsinghpur in Odisha to find that villagers labeled ‘pro’ POSCO do not have a choice otherwise
POSCO clearance illegal: activists
Say the claims made by Odisha government are barefaced lies
Costa Rica for leatherback turtles
Right of way
POSCO gets final approval
Environment ministry endorses state government’s claim that there are no forest rights to be settled in the project area
Olive Ridley turtles give Gahirmatha beach a miss this year
Last year, around 400,000 turtles had nested at the beach in Bhitarkanika National Park during four-day arribada in March
An upcoming port at Dhamra was cited as the reason for the endangered Olive Ridley turtles giving the Gahirmatha beach a miss last year. This year,…
Letters
Public health over profits
Can green mean free?
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Fair farming
The European Union buckles under the pressure of the developing countries to reduce agricultural subsidies
Trade truce
It was neither a victory for the North nor a defeat for the South. Environment took centrestage as the main bargaining chip, but the discussions …
POSCO gets green signal
Environment ministry goes soft on South Korean steel giant POSCO
Bichitrapur and Kirtania ports will endanger Olive Ridleys
Odisha forest department says ship movement will disturb turtle habitat
Lives of others
Wildlife is more of an academic concern except when the charismatic tiger is wiped out from a protected forest or our favourite fish vanishes …