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Mangroves Provide Rooted Remedies To Surging Storms

July 17, 2024

In Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, south of the Uppanar river estuary, sits the picturesque village of Kudikadu, where the Uppanar backwaters isolate the agrarian hinterlands. Flowing over 24 km, the Uppanar river — a relatively smaller river — empties into the

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Vivek Mukherji

May 21, 2024

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#Election2024: Modi’s Contempt For Environment, Dismantling Protection Policy Hallmarks Since 2014

Ranjit Bhushan

April 30, 2024

Sustainability

The several achievements of the decade-long Modi rule, such as putting into place an efficient digital order and fine-tuning direct benefit transfer (DBT) in various sectors, has a giant gaping hole — the government’s environment policy. Aghast environment policy observers have been

The Dirty Secret Of Electric Vehicles That No One Talks About

Kalyan Chatterjee

April 13, 2024

Sustainability·Top Story

As the world pushes for electric vehicles to contain global warming, the demand for metals like lithium, nickel and cobalt that will power the transition have exploded over the past decade. But of late serious doubts have begun to creep in about

Is A Double Engine Government Pulling UP At The Pace Required To Achieve A $1 Trillion Economy By 2027-28 ?

Vivian Fernandes

October 23, 2023

In Focus

Can Uttar Pradesh (UP) become a trillion-dollar economy by 2027-28, as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath proclaimed in June? UP’s gross domestic product was $250 billion in 2021-22 at current prices. To meet the goal, the state’s economic output will have to grow

Net Zero Challenge: India Lacks A Policy Framework For Decommissioning Thermal Power Plants

Kalyan Chatterjee

October 20, 2023

Sustainability

India’s push towards net zero emissions by 2070 appears to have saddled it with a king-size dilemma. To start with, it must drastically reduce the use of coal for power generation. Yet, shutting down thermal power plants is easier said than done

Food For Thought: Can Conservation Agriculture Mitigate Climate Change Impact?

Kalyan Chatterjee

August 18, 2023

Commentary

Food security no longer remains simply a matter of increasing productivity and growing more grains. High-yielding varieties, extensive use of fertilisers and more irrigation worked like magic for the past few decades to pull India out of its dependence on imports to

Heatwaves: Chilling Facts Portend Hot Future

Jayanta Bhattacharya

July 27, 2023

Sustainability

Extreme weather events are here to stay. As India experienced, summers have become more intense, followed by monsoon deluge that triggered flash floods in the North. This year’s high average summer temperatures in the plains and extreme rainfall in the Himalaya offer

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Vivek Mukherji

June 16, 2023

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