Turning turtle
Olive Ridley sea turtles have been coming to the Gahirmatha coast in Orissa for thousands of years for mass nesting. But for two consecutive years now they have failed to nest here, though they have shown up
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Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture
The Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) is a premier Institute in freshwater aquaculture in the country under the administrative control of the ICAR, New Delhi.
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NDTV-Philips: Breathe Clean Conclave
The Breathe Clean conclave, attended by leading government voices, medical practitioners, environmentalists, educators, NGOs and concerned citizen and parent groups, began with an opening keynote address
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Philips NDTV Breathe Clean Conclave
The conclave, attended by leading government voices, medical practitioners, environmentalists, educators, NGOs and concerned citizen and parent groups, began with an opening keynote address by Shri Prakash
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Technology driven by ideology
Research on solar cookers has remained the enclave of Gandhian innovators
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Increase in green cover, says report
India has 28,000 ha more forests than last year, according to the Forest Survey of India
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Singhbhum: Jharkhand
Jungle andolan amidst state repression
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"Police firing will keep happening"
BABULAL MARANDI was the Union minister of state for environment when he took over as the chief minister of Jharkhand in 2000. In March 2003, he resigned after his cabinet ministers turn against him. Down To Earth spoke to him a few days after his ouster
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Legacy of an empire
Encouraged by their ninth century benevolent rulers, Gond landlords and villagers had set up an intricate and immensely useful network of <i>katas</i> , traditional water harvesting structu res. But modern disinterest and apathy have served to decimate
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Adrift and Isolated
A proposed blanket ban on scientific prawn culture in Chilika lake is a total let down for the fiskerfolk
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30,000 farmers demand Hirakud dam water
Western Orissa is witnessing an upheaval. In the eye of the storm is the Hirakud dam. Over 300,000 farmers dependent on its water for irrigation are indignant that industries springing up around the dam are sucking away the water they had been waiting for
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Flood fury
Frequent deluge engulfs new areas and assumes monstrous proportions
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When participation holds sway
Gouditikra in Orissa provides a model of how community participation can transform a village
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Planting trees instead of feeding brahmins
Even death ceremonies in these 1,200 villages in orissa's Puri district have been transformed
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Billowing Rage
The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke spewing sponge iron plant in the area.
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Go under
Or, follow coastal regulations
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India State of the Environment Report : The Monthly Overview, September 2013
The Kerala government has decided to appeal against two national green tribunal orders that said that the government should take note and adhere to the recommendations of the Western Ghats Expert Ecology Panel (WGEEP) report while approving private and commercial development in eco-sensitive zones. Read more in this September 2013 edition of the Monthly India State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.
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Model development
Every village has its own way of protecting the forests, but each one is a success story
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Powering people
Proliferating grassroots level activity in Orissa is empowering villagers, taking them closer to a fairytale end to unending tales of poverty and exploitation
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Lost Eden
For over 2 months now, the hills of Simlipal in Orissa have been inundated by fierce monsoon showers. Thick foliage dripping water on the undergrowth had turned the soil to slush, to be kneaded by animal hooves. Tracks of animals in search of food mingled