‘Unjustified’: Experts Write to PM Modi Against Hydro Projects in Ganga Himalaya
In 2014, the Union environment ministry agreed with an expert recommendation that HEPs shouldn’t be erected in paraglacial zones.
Climate Crisis: A Prescription from 200 Medical Journals
A momentous statement has just been published in the British medical journal The Lancet and in 200 other health journals. It says, “We are united in recognizing that only fundamental and equitable changes to societies will reverse our current trajectory.”
Rights for Rivers: Fighting for the Legal Rights of Nature
Arguing for the legal standing of nature was greeted as ridiculous in the 1970s. But now the idea is catching on.
Standing Rock Is Everywhere: The Indigenous Heart of the Climate Change Fight
This is a story of victory for the earth and of the end of the Keystone XL pipeline. It also involves the Dakota Access pipeline and the Standing Rock Lakota reservation, indeed the entire world, all of which is threatened by our desperate last burst of fossil fuel exploitation.
We are Scientists, Calling for a Climate Revolution
Scientists have spent decades writing papers, advising government, briefing the press, regarding the climate crisis: all have failed. Now, they need to wage a rebellion… They must do whatever is possible to halt the greatest destruction in human history.
The Kharasrota River Not for Sale
The people of Kendrapada district of Odisha are fighting peacefully to save their river Kharasrota, the lifeline of farmers and fishing communities living besides the river. In the name of providing drinking water to Bhadrak district, the state govt is seeking to divert its water to Adani Ports and SEZ.
End Is Near: Save India from Climate Catastrophe
Will a rising sea submerge India’s coastal cities and villages in the future? Will climate change affect our monsoon, and the floods and droughts linked to it?
Designed to Kill? Why Go-Ahead for 7 Hydel Projects in Uttarakhand Is Malafide
Will the three ministries – environment, power, jal shakti – who approved these contentious projects, be held accountable for any future ecological disaster?
Don’t Tell Me to Despair About the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect
I am tired of being told that this world I was handed is irrevocably broken. I understand that the climate leaders from generations past are tired too, and that the decades of work have disheartened some. The youth climate movement deserves hope and optimism regardless.
Leaked Report of the IPCC Reveals that the Growth Model of Capitalism Is Unsustainable
The second draft of the IPCC Group III report, focused on mitigation strategies, states that we must move away from the current capitalist model to avoid surpassing planetary boundaries and climate and ecological catastrophe.