Tag: ENVIRONMENT
Bittu Sahgal: “Young people want to protect the environment, but don’t have their hands...
Bittu Sahgal is among India’s pioneering conservation and environment journalists, who started the publication of Sanctuary Asia in 1981, after being involved with India’s tiger conservation efforts in the 1970s.
Why it’s easier for India to get to Mars than to tackle its toilet...
Despite significant advances in space research, India has failed to tackle its toilet-sanitation problem.
Science on a shoestring budget
In his latest book, ethologist and evolutionary ecologist Raghavendra Gadagkar, speaks about the importance of low-cost research and the need for academia and Indian society to recognise and attach social prestige to it.
What is sustainable menstruation and how can it help tackle menstrual waste?
Can the world move towards eco-friendly menstrual products for a sustainable future?
30 Years of Liberalisation: Existing Poor Energy Access May Dive Down further with Covid-19
Over the past few years, the Indian government has made a serious push to provide all Indian families electricity and cooking gas connection but the adoption of these modern and clean energy sources remains a big challenge.
The monks who protect the Bhagajang wetland
Among the monks who are silently doing their bit in environmental protection in the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh is Phuntsok Wangchuk. Over the past 14 years he has spent around three months every year at the Bhagajang Wetland Complex to guide and care for pilgrims that visit the sacred wetlands.
More reasons for optimism on climate change than we’ve seen for decades: 2 climate...
This article throws light on the global emergency called the climate crisis and how optimistic is the situation.
Farmers, near Bagmati river in Bihar, pick fertility of land over safety from floods
The Bihar government has been facing opposition, from locals, to the embankment project on River Bagmati. People of Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga district have been...
A Glimpse of Ecofeminism
Women and nature share the same pathological story in the neo-liberal world characterized by the logic of reckless development. It is high time that we rethink growth and progress and arrive at a more sustainable and holistic conception of modernity that is in tune with nature at large.
Book Review/ Indian Environmental History for Young Adults
We find ourselves at a time when youth activists are asking the world leaders to take action to prevent climate change, the book gives context on India’s environmental history.