As the fourth negotiating session on the United Nations plastics treaty comes to a close, pressing questions loom: Will world leaders finalize a robust agreement by the end of this year that…
“One environmental journalist is killed every two days” is how Jon Sawyer Executive Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, opened the first panel discussion ever on the dangers that environmental…
by Katrina Fischer Kuh and James R. May Even a healthy U.S. democracy would struggle to respond effectively to the “wicked” problem of climate change. As humans, we would have…
In recent years the technology of modified insects including genetically modified insects, particularly mosquitos, as well as other related technologies, have been exposed in several countries for their harmful impacts…
Various technologies of manipulation and modification of insects, including genetic modification, have been attracting a lot of debate in recent years, particularly in the context of mosquitoes. This debate heats…
When the majority of human society feels social stress, it does one of three things—1) accept stress out of a feeling of helplessness, 2) move away from the stressors in…
While observing the 50th anniversary of the Chipko movement for saving forests many inspiring stories were related but we did not hear much about the highly inspiring Appiko movement of…
In a global context where tropical rainforests play a critical role in biodiversity conservation and climate regulation, these ecosystems are severely threatened by expanding agribusiness and logging activities. This poses significant risks…
100+ environmental and human rights organisations and 400+ individuals issue a letter to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change demanding the roll back of the Green Credit Rules…
The destruction of nature might one day become a criminal offense adjudicated by the International Criminal Court. On December 3, 2019, the Pacific island state of Vanuatu made an audacious proposal:…
An anonymous ‘they’ are accused of damaging our pretty blue planet, but we know for certain it is not ‘they’. It is ‘Us’. ‘We’. It’s we who are ravaging and…
Are you personally or people who you know placing too many demands on our planet to provide relative extravagance and indulgences for us? After all, the world is expected to…
As I bicycled to work this cool, breezy spring morning in the Pacific Northwest, I admired the vibrant growth of multitude of plants reaching for the sun, and spring flowers seeking bees and…
At a time when there is increasing concern that powerful GM crop lobbyists backed by enormous resources of giant multinational companies may be able to bulldoze food safety and environmental…
As Earth Day approaches, prepare for the annual spectacle of U.S. lawmakers donning their environmentalist hats, waxing poetic about their love for the planet while disregarding the devastation their actions…
Bharat Dogra is Honorary Convener, Campaign to Save Earth Now. His recent books include Protecting Earth for Children, Planet in Peril, Earth without Borders, Man over Machine, A Day in…
Mr R Chidambaram, a major figure in India’s nuclear weapons programme, quoted from poet Coleridge’s line Water Water everywhere and not a drop to drink, at a conference on water…
Bioenergy companies are clear-cutting American forests to heat and electrify Europe. This broken system harms public health, the environment, and the climate. Renewable energy comes from matter that nature produces…
New Delhi, 19 March 2024: The 6th Annual World Air Quality Report finds New Delhi to be the most polluted capital city in the world, while India ranks as the…
Sixth Abhee Dutt Mazumdar Memorial Lecture, Kolkata, 26 July 2019 INTRODUCTION Honouring Abhee Dutt Mazumdar It is a great honour to deliver the Abhee Dutt Mazumdar Memorial Lecture this year.…
Corvallis, OR — The Alliance of World Scientists (AWS) is pleased to announce the six recipients of the 2024 Planet Earth Award: Dr. S Faizi, Dr. James Hansen, Dr. Denise…
While there is widespread and increasing support for the protection of wild life, avoidable obstructions have been created by the insistence of some conservationists and project authorities on pursuing conservation…
In 2019, an independent international science group—the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services—announced that about 1 million species around the world are threatened with extinction. The number, based…
Sixty-seven (67) countries have banned paraquat, a toxic chemical used to control weeds that was discovered in the 1950s subsequently widely used throughout the world in agriculture. Despite a deadly…
Government Higher Primary School, Hengavalli, is located at a village named Hengavalli, in Kundapur Taluk, Udupi District, Karnataka. My friend Poornima studied in this school and her father is the…
What if restoring ecosystems was as easy as letting nature do what she intends? From the microscopic level, which constantly churns and builds the “living soil”—from where all life originates—to…
Hybrid Bt cotton, the only commercialised GM crop in India, has failed conclusively. Based on this failure and the evidence on GM crops to date, the Union of India’s proposal…
The diet of factory-farmed animals is linked to environmental destruction around the globe. In some parts of the continental United States, you might drive through a nearly unchanging landscape for…
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history took an irreversible step forward earlier this month when crews opened a 16-foot-wide tunnel in the base of the Iron Gate Dam…
Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature, UC Santa Barbara researchers present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around the world, spanning nearly…
Mayem village in Goa connects Bandodakar Tixel Jetty to Bicholim, this route is used for transportation of mineral ore by the mining transportation companies and Almost 17,696.69 MT of mineral…
In the on-going case on GM Mustard in the Supreme Court of India the bench has taken the very appropriate stand that the court cannot get involved beyond a point…
Chemicals leaching from plastics are leaving Americans notably sicker and poorer, according to a new study found. By contributing to the development of chronic disease and death, a group of hormone-disruptive…
A stunning admission by the American Chestnut Foundation exposes the nation’s broken regulatory system. On December 8, the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) announced it withdrew support “for several pending regulatory petitions that would authorize…
Cyclone Michaung has left behind a trail of destruction and for the environmentalists, the Oil mixed with rainwater that flowed through a stormwater drain on Manali High Road, Tiruvottiyur in…
Known by its brand name Roundup, glyphosate is a clear and present danger to human health. Glyphosate, known by its famous brand name, Roundup, is a widely used herbicide (a…
Recent decisions for Native communities’ land rights mark historic defeats for agribusiness, mining giants, illegal settlers, and the far-right politicians who support them. Just this last May, capitalism’s insatiable agribusinesses and…
by Mouna Hashem and Martha Mundy The United Arab Emirates is destroying the biodiversity of a Yemeni archipelago. Environmental destruction entails two intertwined processes: climate change and the destruction of biodiversity,…
The Great Nicobar Island mega project and the recent amendment to the Forest (Conservation) Act in violation of the Supreme Court's directions pose a serious threat to India's forests and…
On October 27, 2022, the Union Environment Ministry gave hush-hush clearance for deforesting 131 sq. km of forests in Great Nicobar Island to accommodate a mega industrial project, a pet…
Interview with Dr. Ravi Chopra: Unmasking the Environmental Toll of the Char Dham Project On the festive day of Diwali, while the nation reveled in celebrations, 41 laborers found themselves…
Weather manipulation is increasingly common around the world, but the dangers of privatization and weaponization abound. As winter settles over New Delhi, cold air sinks, trapping pollution in the city.…
A nationally protected wildlife reserve in Indonesia is under attack by popular, big-name brands. Picture a rhinoceros in the rainforest. Add a herd of elephants, families of orangutans swinging through…
Vembanad Lake in India, the longest in the country and the largest in Kerala, is alarmingly polluted with microplastics, according to a study from the Alfred Wegener Institute. All sediment…
I vividly recall my childhood walks through the lush green fields and forests of rural Maharashtra. Today, much of this land lies barren and eroded, a somber testament to decades…
(1) The Movement and some probable first steps to Revive the River; (2) What else may be necessary for the people living in the river basin; (3) Few Additional Comments…
The “lungs of North America,” the Tongass National Forest is the Earth’s largest intact temperate rainforest. Protecting it means protecting the entire planet. Spanning 16.7 million acres that stretch across most of…
A product of entrenched, historic racism, “sacrifice zones”—designed to site pollution hot spots within communities of color—are a front line in a largely silent, often deadly, and steadily growing health…
The U.S. beef industry is destroying the American Wild West and worsening the climate crisis. When conservationist Aldo Leopold persuaded the U.S. Forest Service in 1924 to establish the nation’s first federally…
As scientists continue to research the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, one fact has become clear: Deforestation is linked to emerging diseases. When humans destroy forests to create land for…
While the famous Ganga and Yamuna rivers have at least received some attention regarding their protection, several of their important tributaries have been badly neglected even at a time when…
by Steve Taylor and Orin Langelle Brazil is set to unleash several varieties of genetically engineered eucalyptus, which will worsen a bad situation. Valued for its termite-resistant wood for building…
Universal constants are a set of mathematical values, fine-tuned to incredible precision to sustain the clockwork functioning of the universe. Life on Earth is a microcosm of those very forces,…
Oceans are experiencing rapid and dramatic changes as a result of human activity. Data indicate that during the last twenty to twenty-five years, concerns have been raised regarding uncontrolled collection…
Baba Mayaram is a freelance Hindi journalist from Madhya Pradesh. He grew up in a village in Hoshangabad District and has worked as a journalist in Indore and Raipur. He…
Water. Data centres. The continuous, pressing need to cool the latter, which houses servers to store and process data, with the former, which is becoming ever more precious in the…
One year after India banned nineteen single-use plastic items for tackling plastic waste, the situation on the ground tells us a different story. Banned single-use plastic items are found to…
We know that plastic is choking the planet. But it could be killing us, too. In 2019, the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks published a statement that…
The framework of our civilization is premised on the destruction of the planet. The struggle for environmental justice in Africa is complex and broad. It is the continuation of the…
For all the well-documented sources of environmental pollution—think chemical manufacturers, energy plants, mining operations, and agricultural processes—there’s another major source of contamination that continues to get short shrift by those…
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