Environment

Poor utilisation of funds, non-binding targets, and a narrow focus on smaller cities are some factors hindering the progress of the National Clean Air Programme.

Ashish Kothari, environmentalist and a founder of Kalpavriksh, highlights the importance of indigenous knowledge, collective action, and sustainable conservation as alternatives to mainstream development models.

Climate change, industrial pollution, and overfishing are threatening the traditional occupation of the Kaibarta fishing community in Assam.

Once a fertile wetland, Ennore is going through an environmental crisis due to decades of industrial pollution, severely impacting people's health and livelihoods.

By focusing on resource efficiency and reuse, circularity can benefit the environment, industry, government, and society.

India’s forest and wood certification scheme is expensive and won’t necessarily lead to sustainable extraction of forest produce or better forest management.

Current practices of natural resource extraction burden indigenous communities and deny future generations of their rightful share.

Iruliga elders, once regarded as stewards of the forest in the Bannerghatta National Park, now grapple with their children seeking to shed this identity.

India’s clean energy sector is rapidly evolving, but is it the people- and planet-friendly transition everyone wants?

In pursuit of India's net-zero goals, wastelands are being repurposed for renewable energy and afforestation projects. This poses a threat to the diverse ecosystems they encompass and the communities dependent on them.