OUR ENVIRONMENT Should the Forest Conservation Act be amended? Ten days back, on October 2, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change published a ‘consultation note’ on changes...
Reportage Yield from the floodplains: A community of migrant seasonal farmers, the ‘Palaziye’ raise summer vegetables annually on river beds The Palaziye walk the talk as they live close to the land and practise eco-friendly measures to grow seasonal vegetables...
Columns Rejuvenating mighty rivers like the Yamuna and the Ganga requires the revival of smaller streams The Katha, a direct tributary of the Yamuna has been a lifeline for several small villages once. It originated in...
Reportage Floodplains are not ‘available lands’ for tree plantation Any “afforestation” effort like Namami Gange, where trees are raised in active floodplains of rivers, is grossly misplaced and should...
Columns Friends of the river: Frolicking dolphins, and a group dedicated to preserving the River Yamuna The Nadi Mitra Mandali established by Jayakant and his friends now also promotes sanitation, natural farming, solar power and more.
Columns Shifting Sands: Illegal sand mining is killing both people and the environment Illegal sand mining that has come up around uncontrolled construction is taking a toll on environment and human lives. The...
Columns It is time we stop demonising riverine floods during monsoon as a calamity. Here is why Human beings are conditioned to consider riverine floods a threat to their existence rather than as a geomorphological process necessary...
Columns ‘A river is as healthy as its sickest tributary’ A journey along the river Hindon, the first of the large tributaries of the Yamuna, lead to a unique mound...
Reportage Yes, the Yamuna river is clean now. But, for how long? Unless the river has abundant flow in it to retain its self-cleansing ability and industries are strictly mandated to become...
Reportage It’s not right to create a sanitary landfill along the banks of the Yamuna river. This is why Apart from being illegal, such a facility is an environmental disaster. The Yamuna river floodplain should not be made a...
