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259EnvironmentOpinion: The Madcap Scheme To Divert The Brahmaputra
Last year a proposal to divert the Brahmaputra, one of Asia’s major rivers, from Tibet into Xinjiang province was posted online, causing...
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415Environment
Uttarakhand Villagers Harvest Rainwater, Recharge Springs, Avoid Long Walks
By Hridayesh Joshi Life for 29-year-old Sangeeta Devi wasn’t the same eight years ago until a huge water storage tank was built...
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341Environment
Sinking Sundarbans Islands Underline Climate Crisis
By Soumya Sarkar Kalyani Mandal has gone way past hope. Living in Dhoblat Shibpur, a coastal village on Sagar Island in the...
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533Environment
Environment And Climate Change Gets Short Shrift in Union Budget 2018
Soumya Sarkar, Juhi Chaudhary & Sapna Gopal As the Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley rose in Parliament to present the last full...
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Are The Rs 10 Coins Nothing But Publicity Tools?
Rahul works in a multinational. Every day, he commutes in the sharing autos. Frequently, he witnesses suspicion over coins especially ₹ 10...
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357Environment
Jammu & Kashmir Hydro Project Cleared Without Site Visit
By Athar Parvaiz The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has given a green signal to the 800 MW Bursar Hydroelectric Project...
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290Environment
Delhi Smog Reveals Global Failure To Deal With Climate Change
By Omair Ahmad From the beginning of COP23, the issue of loss and damage has cast a shadow over proceedings as developing...
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315Environment
From Bread Basket To Basket Case
Soumya Sarkar After degrading rich farmland through reckless use of chemical fertilisers and depleting aquifers by overusing groundwater – an outcome, ironically...
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273Environment
Zeroing in on air pollution
In India initiatives such as Delhi’s “odd-even policy” and the NITI Aayog’s aggressive push towards electric cars were seen as too...
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322Environment
Is India’s goods and services tax bad news for Bhutan’s environment?
The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan remained in isolation for centuries until 1961, when a road was completed connecting the country with...
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![In the Himalayas, most women have to walk miles on hilly terrain to fetch water as local water sources are depleting [Image by Hridayesh Joshi]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/pix3-1020x677-e1518676400447.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![In the Himalayas, most women have to walk miles on hilly terrain to fetch water as local water sources are depleting [Image by Hridayesh Joshi]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/pix3-1020x677-e1518676400447.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![Coastal erosion, high soil salinity and increasingly violent cyclones have forced the young out of their homes in the Sundarbans, living behind only the old people, children and women [image by: Soumya Sarkar]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Sundarbans2-1020x663-e1518601051956.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![Coastal erosion, high soil salinity and increasingly violent cyclones have forced the young out of their homes in the Sundarbans, living behind only the old people, children and women [image by: Soumya Sarkar]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Sundarbans2-1020x663-e1518601051956.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
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![The burning of crop residue in Punjab and Haryana is creating serious air pollution hazard over northern India [image by: Richardt Radek Larsen]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BasketTTP-e1510384925691.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
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