Fire at Assam’s Baghjan Oil Well: An Ecological Disaster
On 27th May, a sudden and massive fire broke out at an oil well in Baghjan village in Assam’s Tinsukia district making it the latest in the series of industrial disasters in India. It...
Category: Environment
Urban Forest Programme: Celebrating Biodiversity
On 5th June 2020, Indian Government launched “Nagar Van” or Urban Forest Programme with 200 corporations or cities of India to mark the occasion of World Environment Day. This Programme owes its importance to...
Climate change is real! Look at the Australian bush fires, repent and learn
“Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It’s the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.” -Leonardo di Caprio, 2016 Oscar acceptance...
Water – An emerging corporate agenda
Water, water everywhere… except it’s not everywhere any more. Water is life. It is a precious and a common resource for all mankind and all living beings. How we are able to utilize and...
Southeast Asian countries need tougher plastic policies to curb pollution: UN
Southeast Asian countries, among the world’s worst ocean polluters, need tougher regulations for plastic packaging to curb leakage, a United Nations report said on Wednesday. Southeast Asia is a major contributor to land-based plastic...
Top Secret Israeli Oil Firm to Pay $30m for Catastrophic Spill in Landmark Case
In 2014, some 5 million litres of crude oil leaked into the Evrona Nature Reserve in what is considered to be one of Israel’s worst ecological disasters Israel’s state-owned Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company will pay 100...
Japan typhoon death toll climbs to 74, rescuers search for missing people
Rescue workers in Japan searched for the missing on Wednesday as the death toll from one of the worst typhoons to hit the country rose to 74, public broadcaster NHK said, many drowned by...
The Century’s Strongest Typhoon Hagibis is about to hit Japan
Japan issued its highest level of emergency rainfall warnings for Tokyo and many surrounding areas on Saturday and advised more than five million people to evacuate their homes to avoid landslides and flooding, as...
India must stop deforesting its mountains if it wants to fight floods
Floods are now an annual nightmare in many parts of southern and western India. Valleys in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala that weren’t considered flood-prone until recently are at risk. During floods and landslides...
The Amazon Fires: What do they tell us about nationalism and minority exploitation?
Last year, the far-right populist leader, Jair Bolsonaro, was elected as the President of Brazil in a narrow victory against his more leftist rival, Fernando Haddad. Bolsonaro ran his presidential campaign with a fervent...
