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Conservation

Resurgent Thattekad

The ornithologist Salim Ali’s unscheduled stopover at Thattekad in 1933 made it the focal point of a bird survey and 50 years later he helped establis
Text & photographs by Subash Jeyan
Wildlife

A tiger called Noor

If the Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan is a conservation success story, the tigers of the reserve have remarkable life stories of their own. Th
Text by G. SHAHEED & Photographs by Aditya Dicky Singh
Kerala Floods

Dams in distress

Amid accusations that the Kerala floods were a man-made disaster, it is important to take a close look at the structural limitations of the State’s r
James Wilson
Environmental Issues

Clean Ganga remains a dream

Four years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of the Namami Gange project, the river remains as dirty as ever.
Purnima S. Tripathi

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In March 2018 at Azad Maidan in Mumbai, a protest by the Konkan Refinery Virodhi Sangharsh Samiti against the proposed refinery at Ratnagiri.

Resisting a refinery

Opposition mounts against a proposed gigantic refinery that threatens to affect the lives of thousands of families of farmers and fishermen in 17 vil
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Huge concrete structures are coming up in Kozhikode even as the low-lying area and wetlands are being illegally filled by real estate lobbies despite resistance from environmentalists. Debris of buildings and waste materials are dumped into a section of the wetlands adjacent to the city.

Change for the worse?

Environmentalists in Kerala are up in arms against amendments to an Act that envisaged protection of paddy land and wetlands, but the LDF government
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A plastic ban

The Maharashtra government’s ban on plastic may be well-intentioned but has been launched without adequate protocols, proper education of the public
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Powering the nation

The country's electricity generation capacity and production of energy sources continue to post healthy growth.
RAMESH CHAKRAPANI

Elusive birds

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