Picture imperfect

HP snubbed

For denotifying forestland

In short

Biofuel dreams for wastelands

Centre now has a policy¤ but where’s the wasteland?

India desertified

Map of India to change soon. Courtesy: climate change

Corporate wastelands

Tamil Nadu seems set to gift community land to corporates under the name of wasteland regeneration

Dhamra port on mangrove land

Odisha government insists port is on wasteland

Nirma loses wetland

Environment ministry revokes clearance to its cement plant

Court raps environment ministry

Asks why it allowed Nirma to create confusion on wetland

Granite greed

Frenzied quarrying destroys livelihoods and environment in Karimnagar

Why is fodder so expensive?

Supply from agriculture and forests is dwindling  

Desert blooms

Halophytes - plants growing on saline soil - could be India's Answer to the problems of salt desert and wasteland reclamation, besides Being …

Himalayan upheavals

NATURAL PREMISES: ECOLOGY AND PEASANT LIFE IN THE WESTERN HIMALAYA 1800- 1950·Chetan Singh·Oxford University Press·New Delhi&…

Nirma plant in trouble again

Environment ministry says project site a wetland

Protests against unfair land allotment in Rajasthan

Nature cure from India

How an urban planner undertook green recovery in Telangana’s 72 ULBs

Extensive mapping, designing of parks with detailed cost estimates and implementation frameworks were prepared as part of the project 

The new Money plant

The seeds of a plant called jatropha yield oil that, after processing, makes biodiesel. It can reduce India's burgeoning oil import bill. And …

Return of village land

Supreme Court asks states to evict illegal occupants of village commons

Taken by the horns

Gujarat buckles under farmers’ pressure, shrinks special investment region planned for industries

Water v industry: where is the question?

Lessons from Kakarapalli

Nirma whitewash

Detergent company Nirma gave false information to obtain clearance for its cement plant in coastal Saurashtra. Environment ministry to inspect …

Seeing land for trees

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