Category: Environment, Forest and Climate change

Brown, mucky, and shrivelled to a thread-like state – that is the pitiful story of most rivers unfortunate enough to be situated in the northern plains of India. While the revered Ganga races to the top in the list of rivers on the verge of extinction, unchecked pollution and unsustainable human consumption of our limited resources are fast ensuring that its tributaries are reduced to the same fate. One of the lesser-known victims of this ceaseless human exploitation is the Mandakini river of UP’s Chitrakoot district. Read more

Courtesy: First post

The 22 villages in the Brahmapuri Forest Division of Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra are planning to take their judicial battle against the Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd (FDCM) a level higher. The villagers have decided to present a Civil Appeal in the Supreme Court under Section 22 of the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 (NGT), against the orders of Tribunal’s Principal Bench of July 24 this year. Read more

Courtesy: down to earth

A recent study discovered that 35% of its residents want to migrate from Delhi

Earlier this year, when French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Beijing, he
looked at the clear blue skies above and exclaimed: “I’ve never seen Beijing like
this!” Macron was not off the mark. Ten years ago, the city’s air was so polluted
that the sun appeared to be a fading dot in the sky. Read more

Courtesy; livemint