Environment

Indian railways
Leaving a dirty trail
GOI Monitor Desk

Indian Railways scores high on pollution index but that does not seem to bother the administration much

SPREAD OVER 65,000 km and ferrying 2.8 million tons of goods plus 24 million passengers daily, Indian Railways can be called the most populous Indian city on wheels. And just like any other city, railways also eats up resources and generates waste on the way. In fact, railways is the biggest consumer of energy in India guzzling down 2567.37 million litres of diesel and 16105.00 million units of electricity.

Hilltemple
On the knees to nature
Manu Moudgil

The famous rat temple near Bikaner is just one of the several instances of a conservation practice common to Rajasthan

VISIT MATA Karni Devi Temple at Deshnoke village near Bikaner and you won't be surprised by the rats scurrying freely in the shrine's precincts. Travel shows, including those on Discovery and National Geographic channels, have already covered the uniqueness extensively. The rodents, regarded as reincarnations of the goddess’s devotees, underscore the divine relationship we share with other living beings. However, a much deeper relation with nature is evident on the 2,100 hectare woodland near the temple which is regarded sacred. Called 'Oran' or 'Devbani' in local parlance

Fishers in India
Preparing for the high tide
GOI Monitor Desk

Fishers are reworking their schedules and taking to community sharing to deal with adverse impact of climate change

IN KAKINADA, Andhra Pradesh, the mechanised boats increasingly operate in groups. In order to save fuel and time, one of the boats is delegated to scout the prospective fishing grounds so the rest could follow only when there is potential for catching prawns. Occasionally, they fan out in different directions and keep in contact with one another to share the news if good catches are sighted. At Venkatanagaram village of the state, a process of ‘twinning’ is undertaken in which two boats agree to work as a unit not to fish together, but to use

Climate change and agriculture
Farming under the changing skies
GOI Monitor Desk

As climate change drastically affect agriculture production, reviving traditional practices and community sharing remains the only solution

Pump irrigation
Watering the future disaster
GOI Monitor Desk

Despite receiving heavy rainfall and good recharge capacity of the soil, Punjab and Haryana join ranks with desert areas of Rajasthan in guzzling up the ground water

Millet farming
Rejig the food basket
P V Satheesh

Millets can be India's best bet to address food insecurity and climate change provided we get over the obsession for wheat and rice crops

Western Ghats
Censuring the collapse
GOI Monitor Desk

Western Ghats are suffering irreparable damage but Indian govt is busy burying its own investigations

Wind mills at Satara plateau
Wind energy or windfall?
GOI Monitor Desk

Indian corporates are earning carbon credits by claiming to be environment friendly but reality is quite different

Sunflowers grown using sewage waste
Sewage makes a thousand flowers bloom
Manu Moudgil

In Punjab's Doaba region treated sewage water is being used to grow crops thus turning waste into a highly useful entity

Farming and climate change
Cashing in on the climate change debate
Soumya dutta

The climate change action plans are focused on money making than protection of environment

Forest cover
The green cover-up
Manu Moudgil

A look at how misleading policies are fueling the delusion that India’s green cover is expanding

Water storage
Digging deep, fetching a nought
Himanshu Thakkar
Parineeta Dandekar

Neither the farmers nor the environment, the draft water policy seems to help only the vested interests

Rhino in Assam
Uneasy lies the head with the horn
Seven Sisters Post

Kaziranga is a great conservation success, so forest officials get upset whenever poaching intensifies

north east
Disturbing placid waters of north east
GOI Monitor Desk

Hydroelectricity projects on the north eastern rivers are inviting protests by local communities who want development but not at the cost of livelihood and environment

Biodiversity
Biodiversity in danger, is anyone listening?
Manu Moudgil

A round up of how little is being done to save our flora and fauna and why we lose out on patents of our traditional products

leather
Last call for leather tanneries to buckle up
GOI Monitor Desk


Even after 15 years and expenditure of Rs 135 crore, the project to control pollution from tanneries is incomplete

Eco tourism
Dead end for eco tourism
GOI Monitor Desk

A scheme to clean up major tourist cities ends up in the country’s dumping ground thanks to indifference of concerned authorities
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