'It concerns the sea and the security of the nation. What has happened is a big tragedy.' IMAGE: Liberia-flagged container vessel MSC ELSA 3 sank off the Kerala coast soon after departing......
'People should realise that what we are fighting for today is actually for tomorrow, for future generations.' IMAGE: Fishermen protest against the Adani group's port development project at......
Poor governance and mediocre short-sighted politics are destroying the paradise that Goa was as its environment, water table, culture and way of life is drastically threatened by tourism and......
'If the Kasturirangan Committee report is implemented, the mining and quarrying lobbies will flourish... It will be disastrous for the environment.' 'There will be water shortage, there will be......
Image: An Indian Royal Bengal tiger at the South Khairbari nature park near Siliguri. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters 'We are rushing to 'develop' without carefully valuing natural......
As the Centre and state governments grapple with the problem of unending farmers' suicides, which continues unabated despite a host of initiatives, the Kerala Biodiversity Board has mooted the idea......
These plantations are not only eating into the land occupied by the region’s native forests, they could also disturb the ground water reserve and soil quality, says Ankur Paliwal. Rubber......
Indian scientists who wrote to the PM last week are not entirely rejecting GMOs but instead asking for caution and further testing to establish their safety, writes Rajni Bakshi. When dignitaries......
The government may claim planted trees compensate for forests lost, but that does not mean complex flora and fauna destroyed have been restored, points out Himadri Ghosh. Over the last 30 years,......