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Sandipan Talukdar
Restoring Degraded Natural Landscape Could be Highly Effective in Mitigating Climate Change
20 Oct 2020
New research has suggested a mitigation process that would require a third of the planet’s most degraded areas to be restored.
Seema Sharma
Uttarakhand Govt Cancels 5-Year Climate Change Centre Project Midway
20 Oct 2020
The cancellation has been done without consultation with and approval of DST, which sanctioned it in August 2016, says project head, alleging violation of aims and objectives.
Sumedha Pal
Uttarakhand May See 2nd Chipko Movement as Hundreds Protests against Axing of 10,000 Trees
19 Oct 2020
Students are rallying en masse to ‘save Thano’ in a bid to recreate the Chipko movement to save trees.
PTI
Smoky Haze Shrouds Delhi-NCR; Air Quality Enters 'Very Poor' Zone
15 Oct 2020
PM10 levels in Delhi-NCR rose to 300 microgram per cubic metre (µg/m3) at 9:30 a.m -- the highest this season so far. PM10 levels below 100 µg/m3 are considered safe in India.
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Bihar Elections: Kaimur Tribals to Boycott Polls in Protest Against Proposed Tiger Reserve
14 Oct 2020
The villagers say that their ancestors have been living in these forests since 1911; now, close to one lakh people are afraid of being displaced.
Ayaskant Das
Did Odisha Govt Rush Through a Public Hearing for Vedanta’s Aluminium Smelter Expansion?
14 Oct 2020
The government’s haste to hold a public hearing on Vedanta’s expansion project amid the pandemic has raised questions even as locals are opposing the project due to environmental concerns.
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Huge Victory for ‘Save Aarey’ Movement as Metro Car Shed to be Shifted to Kanjurmarg in Mumbai
12 Oct 2020
Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray announced shifting of the metro car shed leaving Aarey forest with 800 acres of land.
Kashif Kakvi
MP: Govt. Planning on Privatising Forests, Activists Opposed to Move
09 Oct 2020
The forest department says that paper, cement and pulp industries are keen on investing in the project.
Ayaskant Das
Modi Govt Scraps Corporate Environment Responsibility Fund
09 Oct 2020
This has opened an easy way for corporates to procure prior environmental clearances, but the chances of non-compliance to the environmental commitments are now high.
Norma Alvarez
Facilitating Identification of Private Forests in Goa Through National Green Tribunal
06 Oct 2020
The NGT declared 46.11 sq km of land as a private forest and directed the State Government to enter the details in the revenue records.