Joshimath collapses - The lede Joshimath crisis: A story of criminal neglect Ismat AraIgnoring protests and pleas of residents for 14 months, the government pushed on with mega projects.
Joshimath collapses Joshimath is proof why eco-friendly development is the need of the hourVinod Kumar Gaur
Joshimath collapses How unplanned urbanisation threatens the mountain towns of UttarakhandPrakash C. Tiwari
Resurgent ThattekadText & photographs by Subash JeyanThe 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
A tiger called NoorText by G. SHAHEED & Photographs by Aditya Dicky SinghIf the Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan is a conservation success story, the tigers of the reserve have remarkable life stories of their own. Th
Power generation Powering the nationRAMESH CHAKRAPANIThe country's electricity generation capacity and production of energy sources continue to post healthy growth.
Kerala Floods Dams in distressJames Wilson 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
Environmental Issues Clean Ganga remains a dreamPurnima S. TripathiFour years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of the Namami Gange project, the river remains as dirty as ever.
Conservation The importance of protected areasRakesh ShuklaIn the whole debate in India on climate change, the role of protected areas, the only natural tool to mitigate its effects and help us adapt to it, ha
Wildlife Survey Tiger triumphRakesh ShuklaWhile the results of the four-yearly survey showing a 30 per cent increase in the tiger population in India signal a victory for the recent conservati
Kanha Space crunch for tigersRakesh Shukla IT was a cloudy September morning at the Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, and a light mist had hazed far-off views of the extensive sava
Konkan region Resisting a refineryLyla Bavadam Opposition mounts against a proposed gigantic refinery that threatens to affect the lives of thousands of families of farmers and fishermen in 17 vil
Wetland Conservation Act Change for the worse?R. Krishnakumar Environmentalists in Kerala are up in arms against amendments to an Act that envisaged protection of paddy land and wetlands, but the LDF government
Maharashtra A plastic ban Lyla Bavadam The Maharashtra government’s ban on plastic may be well-intentioned but has been launched without adequate protocols, proper education of the public
Bears up closeG. ShaheedPoaching, illegal trade in bears for their body parts, and human-bear conflicts pose a great threat to the sloth bear species, which is endemic to the
A new phase of censorship creep in India A proposal to amend the IT Rules 2021 and the ban on a BBC documentary are part of a larger trend of Internet censorship, growing since 2014.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.
