Himachal’s Four-Lane Highways to Hell
For years, India’s highway authority has cut away at the mountain state’s slopes to make wider roads for traffic. The result has been cataclysmic landslides.
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The Story of How Modi Government Turned its Back on Forest Conservation to Favour Corporate Interests
The Modi government persisted in finding ways to open up forests for commercial plantations, beginning shortly after taking office and ultimately achieving it through recent amendments to the Forest (Conservation) Act that damages the rights of tribal people, official documents reveal.
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The South China Sea’s Resource Wars: It’s Not Only About Fossil Fuels
Despite its vast size — 1.3 million square miles — the South China Sea has become a microcosm of the geopolitical tensions between East and West, where territorial struggles over abundant natural resources may one day lead to environmental collapse.
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Do Trees Have Consciousness?
Underlying forest management planning and decisions are considerations about what a forest really is. What are trees? Can they be reasonably considered to have consciousness? If there is any possibility trees have consciousness of any sort, then it brings up questions about what is justifiable to do to them in our efforts to “manage” forests.
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Summer of Deadly Climate Breakdown Spurs Mass Protests Worldwide – 2 Articles
Climate activists are closing out the hottest summer on record with hundreds of demonstrations worldwide, all blaring a unified message: “End fossil fuels.”
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Why Healthy Forests Mean Fewer Pandemics
COVID-19, SARS, and Ebola were transmitted to humans from wild animals living in tropical forests. Destroying their habitats is killing us.
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Wooing Corporate Interests? Nagaland Move to ‘Massively Rely’ on Non-Native Palm Oil
A report on a virtual meeting organised by the civil rights organisation Kezekevi Thehou Ba says that the “bid to push oil palm cultivation in the North-East” has rung “alarm bells” in the ecologically fragile and biodiversity rich region.
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Disruptive Impact of ‘Unviable’ Ken-Betwa River Link Project for Bundelkhand Region
Villagers are protesting against the Ken-Betwa River Link Project, that is likely to lead to cutting down of 3 to 4 million trees and displacement of people of 21 villages. The project will be highly disastrous for the Bundelkhand region already suffering from several acute problems.
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Unprecedented Wildfires; Summer of 2023 Hottest Ever Recorded – 2 Articles
“Breaking heat records has become the norm in 2023,” said one scientist. “Global warming continues because we have not stopped burning fossil fuels. It is that simple.” Also: an article on this year’s utterly unprecedented wildfire season in Canada.
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Uttarakhand Towns Continue to Sink – 2 Articles
New cracks are appearing in the houses and roads of Joshimath town and also nearby areas, along with deep cavities in the fields. People who are affected, wait for rehabilitation, with only a few having received meagre compensation, that too for their houses alone.
