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In a district ruled by a powerful sand mining mafia, police booked two journalists as spies and detained local reporters for helping them.
New Delhi: In November of this year, journalists Arthur Bouvart and Jules Giraudat arrived in Chennai. They belong to a French organisation, Forbidden (...)
GD Agarwal had been fasting since 22 June to protest against government inaction in cleaning the river
An Indian environmental activist has died on the 111th day of a hunger strike to pressure the government to clean the Ganges river.
GD Agarwal, a former professor of environmental (...)
The attention granted to the Grand Renaissance dam in Ethiopia, costing more than $4.3bn, forming Africa’s largest hydroelectric plant and raising controversy with Egypt over access to the waters of the river Nile poses anew some questions of geopolitical economy surrounding multipurpose dam (...)
All is not well with our feathered friends, an analysis of the conservation status of birds suggests.
Of the 10,966 bird species we share this planet with, 1,469 are facing extinction, a new report has found. That is one in eight species.
The ‘State of the World’s Birds’ report assessed the risk (...)
If the Indian government really meant what it said by “building on our rich cultural heritage” and “participatory”, would it not seriously review why laws meant to give adivasis the self-governing space they need, are not implemented?
Forests have been the cultural and livelihood lifeline for (...)
Louis Mendee explains the real human costs of climate change for the global south.
‘…it is clear that such a change [in climate] would have vastly different impacts in various regions of the world. There would be winners, and there would be losers. A climate change could be the cause of a major (...)
As the storm that was hurricane Harvey deluged the areas around Houston , Texas, large parts of northern India, Nepal and Bangladesh also experienced heavy rains .
And the city of Mumbai was hit by another major flooding espisode . Several people have died in the city, many in the collapse of (...)
Movement to retrieve rivers says State can be self-sufficient in water if sources are managed properly.
With 17 big rivers and 99 small rivers, the State which had suffered the worst drought in 2016-17, could be water self-sufficient if its resources are managed properly.
Raising the point at (...)
On the night of December 2, 1984, unknown poisonous gases (released by the runaway reaction of water with methyl isocyanate, or MIC) burst out from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located in a densely populated, working poor vicinity of the city of Bhopal in central India. The plant, scheduled (...)
For the survivors of the Bhopal gas leak, today, Human Rights Day, is yet another day to confront the myriad wrongs of thirty years of corporate criminality and apathetic governance.
On 3 December 1984, tonnes of lethal methyl isocyanate (MIC) and other chemicals leaked from the factory of the (...)
A selection of commentary and articles in the media by the South Asia Citizens Wire.
Bhopal’s Deadly Legacy
The New York Times, December 4, 2014
by The Editorial Board
It’s been called the worst industrial accident in history, and it’s not over. Thirty years ago, during the wee hours of Dec. (...)
Nobody has made a greater contribution to building such a grassroots movement than Medha Patkar who turns 60 on December 1st. Patkar is best known globally as the leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, one of the world’s greatest ecological mass mobilisations. She is also the founder of the (...)
PRESS RELEASE
DATE: 30 October 2014
We, activists of Gujarat oppose ‘Statue of Unity’ because it is in fact a ‘Statue for Tourism Industries’, a ‘Statue for Narendra Modi’s Name and Fame’ and ‘Statue for Criminal Waste of Public Money’.
Not a ‘Statue of Unity’ but a ‘Statue of Disunity’ that removes (...)
Greenpeace responds to the leaked IB Report that Greenpeace and other NGOs have impacted India’s GDP by 3%. We wrote to the MHA requesting to see a copy of the official IB report but so far have not received it. Last night a report claiming to be the IB report was leaked on a web portal and (...)
A warmer world may be leading to a delayed withdrawal of the Indian monsoon, hitting crop yield and affecting the livelihoods of small farmers and agricultural workers.
The joys of a bountiful southwest monsoon are increasingly changing to anxiety as the rains unseasonally drag on in many (...)
CORPORATE media’s coverage of the havoc caused by the cloud burst in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh has largely concentrated on two aspects. The first has been on the plight of the tourists and pilgrims in these regions and the government’s “inability to provide adequate relief.” The second has (...)
STATEMENT ON THE UTTARAKHAND CATASTROPHE
We cannot ignore the climate crisis anymore!
25 June 2013
The India Climate Justice collective notes with deep anguish the devastating loss of life, livelihoods, and homes in Uttarakhand and beyond. The death toll is likely in the thousands, way (...)
Today Darjeeling looks like Solan, Solan like Kausali, Mussoorie like Ghaziabad. The long arm of Indian commerce has invaded every unique setting, and left a trail of devastation in its wake.
Once while designing a hotel in the mountains of Uttarakhand, I had proposed using local pine for (...)
In demonstrations barely reported in the media, peasants and students in the Northeastern Indian state of Assam are fighting together against a proposed gargantuan network of dams across the upper reaches of its rivers in Arunachal Pradesh, one of the world’s six most seismically active regions. (...)
India is set to get a new environment protection framework wherein national institutions will frame and monitor zonal disaster management plans to be implemented by the state governments. The new framework is aimed at reducing burden of district magistrates in environmental regulation and has (...)
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