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School children teachers and activists walk in a procession aimed at creating awareness on protecting the environment in Kolkata.

AP Photo/Bikas Das
An Indian activist rides a motorcycle with posters as he leads a procession aimed at creating awareness on protecting the environment in Kolkata, India. Poster on right reads, "wat...

AP Photo/Bikas Das
Mahadevi Birla World Academy students take pledge for environment, sustainability and recycling during a campaign in Kolkata. Around 2000 students from various schools of Kolkata p...

PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg celebrates her 17th birthday by attending the weekly "Fridays For Future" climate strike outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm, ...

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Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar (C) along with officials releases the 'India State of Forest Report 2019, in New Delhi.

PTI Photo/Atul Yadav
An aerial view of the Metro-car shed area, where environment conservation activists have been opposing the cutting of trees by the authorities, in Mumbai

PTI Photo/Mitesh Bhuvad
School students participate in an awareness rally against the use of plastic, in Agartala

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School Children take part in rally to create awareness among people about threats of plastic pollution in Karad,Maharashtra

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Climate protesters demonstrate outside Ministry of Environment. Protesters around the world joined rallies as a day of worldwide demonstrations calling for action against climate c...

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Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change Prakash Javadekar addresses a press conference of the COP 14 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP1...

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Environmental activists wear masks depicting leaders of France, from left, Germany, South Korea, Japan, United States and Canada during a protest against coal usage as world leader...

AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
Environmentalists wave to welcome dragon boat racers as they take part in a fluvial protest against the planned reclamation projects to be built in different areas off Manila Bay i...

AP Photo/Bullit Marquez
Smog visible below street lights near Panipat

Photograph by Tribhuvan Tiwari
Smoke rising from a field on fire

Photograph by Tribhuvan Tiwari
A farmer burns paddy stubble in Karnal district

Photograph by Tribhuvan Tiwari
A man and his dog on Market St. approach City Hall during the Philly Naked Bike Ride in Philadelphia. The event was organized to protest dependence on fossil fuels, advocate for th...

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Bicyclist Olivia Neely gets a message advocating for less consumption of fossil fuels painted on her back at the Philly Naked Bike Ride in Philadelphia.

AP Photo/Dino Hazell
A naked biker poses for photos as other participants ride past during the Philly Naked Bike Ride in Philadelphia. The event was organized to protest dependence on fossil fuels, adv...

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Madhav Gadgil

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Life Savers

Tree-hugging, literally, in Nauroji Nagar on June 24

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Odisha Adopts Champion's Vision to Safeguard its Biodiversity

An inspiring story of an economist turned environmentalist who has been showing the way to sustainable agriculture, forest conservation and proper use of natural resources

Feb 21, 2020

| Charupadma Pati
Pre-Eminent Environment Activist RK Pachauri Passes Away

R.K. Pachauri, 79, was under treatment for some time for cardiac ailment. He had received the Nobel Prize as the IPCC Chairman along with former US Vice-President Al Gore

Feb 14, 2020

| IANS
Marine Life Under Threat As Oceans Run Out Of Oxygen Due To Climate Change

The largest peer-reviewed study to date on ocean oxygen loss concluded that deoxygenation is already altering the balance of marine life to the detriment of species that need more of the life-giving gas.

Dec 07, 2019

| AFP
64,000 Trees To Be Felled In Lucknow For Defence Expo

The state government wants the area to be completely cleared by January 15, 2020 so that the land can be handed over to the organisers of defence expo.

Nov 29, 2019

| IANS
'Climate Emergency' Is Oxford Dictionary's Word Of The Year

Some of the recent Words of the Year include 'toxic', 'youthquake', 'post-truth' and 'vape'.

Nov 22, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Odisha Could Emerge As Hottest Indian State By 2100, Experts Warn

Experts attribute the rise in Bhubaneswar’s temperature to large-scale construction activities leading to a significant loss of green cover.

Nov 18, 2019

| Sandeep Sahu
Top Officials Skip Key Parliamentary Meet On Pollution

'Delhi is choking and Gambhir is busy enjoying in Indore,' said AAP in a tweet.

Nov 15, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
SC Panel Orders Delhi-NCR Schools To Be Closed Till Nov 15 Amid Rising Pollution

The authorities advised people to avoid outdoor exposure and work from home wherever feasible.

Nov 13, 2019

| PTI
PM Modi Holds Review Meeting On Pollution After Returning From Bangkok

High air pollution levels in Delhi and its neighbouring states have raised serious concerns among politicians and civilians alike.

Nov 05, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Foul Air Is Internal Security Threat, Delhi Smog Needs Surgical Strike

Perhaps it is time to state the increasingly obvious: threats to the environment and public health are a matter of internal security. We need to look beyond.

Nov 02, 2019

| Madhavan Narayanan

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Bangalore's 200 Lakes: How A Boon Became A Bane

Litigation over the upkeep of Bangalore's lakes within its municipal limits is a perennial issue, encroachment and sewage inflow being the main challenges

Dec 04, 2019

| Ajay Sukumaran
A Plastic Chokehold

About two months after the buzz about a national ban on single-use plastics made headlines, the government has come up with the semblance of a definition for ‘single-use plastic’ and a time-frame for phasing it out.

Nov 28, 2019

| Siddhartha Mishra
Subansiri Hydel Project: Disaster On The Cards?

After a eight-year gap, work on the Subansiri dam has resumed much to the unhappiness of activists. Project cost has spiraled from Rs 6,900 crore in 2005 to 20,469 crore in 2019!

Nov 13, 2019

| Abdul Gani
Diversity Is The Challenge

Nutrition security for all demands equity as the cornerstone of development

Aug 14, 2019

| K. Srinath Reddy
OPINION | Bureaucratic Hurdles And Mismanagement Of Water Resources Recipes For Disaster

Vested interests and the absence of a people-oriented approach have led to repeated destruction like floods. How often are we going to ignore our constitutional rights, asks Madhav Gadgil

Jul 25, 2019

| Madhav Gadgil
OPINION | 'In Deep Freeze? From Fish To Hydrocarbons, India Have A Lot To Claim In Antarctica'

While India has no territorial claims over Antarctica, strategic and geopolitical interests over the two polar areas of the world cannot be ruled out, feels Rasik Ravindra

Jul 25, 2019

| Rasik Ravindra
OPINION | 'The Current Of Destruction Is Strong, Even The Ganga Has Not Been Spared For Political Gains'

Siddharth Agarwal, who walks along rivers across India, feels the common man is being left in the lurch as urban desires will not solve the core issues confronting the rivers of India

Jul 25, 2019

| Siddharth Agarwal
Why Our Water Makes Us Cry?

Acute shortages, increased demand, huge damages due to annual floods and droughts, and extreme contamination define the looming water scarcity

Jul 25, 2019

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Kaziranga Loves A Good Flood

Kaziranga exists because of the floods; they are the lifeblood of this 430 square km protected area, a Unesco World Heritage Site.

Jul 25, 2019

| Abdul Gani
Hit By Worst Water Crisis, Why India May Die A Thirsty Death

The red light has been blinking and now the government has acknowledged that India is facing the worst water crisis in its history with about 60 crore people facing high to extreme water stress

Jul 25, 2019

| Lola Nayar Jyotika Sood
The Slow Violence Of Climate Change Goes Unreported: Amitav Ghosh

After his acclaimed Ibis trilogy, author Amitav Ghosh returns with his new book The Gun Island, a powerful tale of migration and a world that is constantly changing. Read excerpts from his interview.

Jun 19, 2019

| Satish Padmanabhan
A Requiem For Kempty

When hypertourism fell on Mussoorie’s once quaint Kempty Falls

Apr 18, 2019

| Stephen Alter