चरम मौसम की घटनाएं जानलेवा साबित हो रहा है

भारत में चरम मौसम (एक्स्ट्रीम वेदर ) तेजी से बढ़ रहे हैं और अब यह केवल मौसमी उतार–चढ़ाव नहीं, बल्कि जीवन और आजीविका के लिए गंभीर खतरा बन चुके हैं। हीटवेव, बाढ़, चक्रवात, सूखा,...

Read more December 2, 2025 at 6:13 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

UN Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations Stalemate as Petrostates Push for a Waste Management Treaty

The three-year-long negotiation process for a Global Plastics Treaty has reached a stalemate, concluding after 11 days of talks at INC-5.2 in Geneva. The negotiations, which began on August 5, 2025, aimed to refine...

Read more September 29, 2025 at 5:04 pm Dr Vishvaja Sambath

Environmental and climate governance in India in 2024-25

In the last one year of the union government’s environmental and climate performance, the negatives far outweigh a few positives. The Environmental Performance Index rank of India, at 176 out of 180 countries assessed...

Read more July 9, 2025 at 11:53 am Soumya Dutta, Dr Vishvaja S & Daniya Dabre

Waste Incineration-Zero Pollution or Zero Truth?

A report on the alarmingly high levels of heavy metal contamination and other violations by the waste incinerator In Manali, Chennai. An incinerator is basically a furnace for burning waste. The “green” incinerator in...

Disinvestment from dam challenged in court in fragile Himalayan state

A writ petition contests the Sikkim government’s decision to disinvest its stake in the public sector company that was operating the Teesta III dam. The petition raises allegations of wrongful financial gain by the...

Read more March 11, 2025 at 4:17 pm SIMRIN SIRUR

Fossil Fuel-based Economy and human rights – Submission by Indian Civil Society Groups

On 28 February 2025, a joint submission was made by 12 Indian civil society groups to the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Human Rights Council is an intergovernmental body within the United Nations...

Victory for public health and the environment! The International Finance Corporation (IFC) withdraws from the proposed investment of USD 40 million for four waste incineration plants in Gujarat, India.

Read more February 21, 2025 at 3:59 pm Alliance for Incinerator Free Gujarat (AIFG)

विश्व आर्द्रभूमि दिवस ( 2 फरवरी) पर विशेषआद्रभूमि को संरक्षित करने का सार्थक प्रयास आवश्यक

ईरान के शहर रामसर के केस्पियन सागर तट पर दो फरवरी 1971 को अंतर्राष्ट्रीय वेटलैंड (आद्रभूमि) कन्वेंशन का आयोजन हुआ था। जिसमें संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघ ने दो फरवरी को आद्रभूमि दिवस घोषित किया था।...

Read more February 2, 2025 at 9:24 am Raj Kumar Sinha

Indian Banks and Environmental Accountability: A New Year of Complicity and Deception?

Indian banks walked nonchalantly into the new year, their indifference as thick as the smoke from industrial projects they finance. Pollution levels soared, environmental concerns, and sometimes protests, were witnessed over big infra projects...

Read more January 15, 2025 at 7:34 pm Amitanshu Verma

पिछड़ता पर्यावरण

जिन वन और वन्यप्राणियों को इंसानी हस्तक्षेप से बचाने की खातिर समूची सरकारी ताकत जंगलों में बसे इक्का-दुक्का गांवों को खदेड़ने में लगी है, उन्हीं वनों को दान-दक्षिणा में पूंजीपतियों को सौंपा जा रहा...

Read more November 18, 2024 at 9:24 am Raj Kumar Sinha

New Phase, Old Problems: Questioning the Human Cost of NTPC Gadarwara’s Expansion

The second stage of National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) owned Gadarwara Thermal Power Plant located in Narsingpur district of Madhya Pradesh, 2*800 (1600 MW) is currently in process. The minutes of the March...

Read more October 28, 2024 at 4:51 pm Deepmala Patel

PACKAGE: Where has the plastic waste disappeared?

One in three plastic generators in Tamil Nadu does not recycle plastic waste according to govt-mandated norms. Despite a Feb 2022 Union govt rule for all plastic waste generators to recycle their waste under...

Read more July 31, 2024 at 9:49 am Times of India

A letter to the EDs of the IFC regarding the potential harms of investing in the WTE projects in Gujarat

Abellon Clean Energy Limited (ACEL) is a Waste to Energy (WTE) developer based out of Gujarat in India, who is developing 4 WTE plants in Rajkot, Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Jamnagar of cumulative capacity 52.20...

“Will give our lives, not our land”: Farmers oppose the ethane cracker plant in Sehore

“We are farmers and are not uneducated. We know that this factory will spew poisonous smoke, our fields will become barren, and the water will not be fit for drinking.” Says Subhadra a farmer...

Read more July 4, 2024 at 2:07 pm Pallav Jain & Rajeev Tyagi

Are we planning monumental destruction in the name of the Great Nicobar Development Plan?

The Great Nicobar Development Plan, also known as the "Holistic Development of Great Nicobar Island" plan, is a major infrastructure initiative planned in the Great Nicobar Island, located in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago...