The so-called Maharashtra’s worst drought since 1972 is an example of India’s water management failure and a scam of huge magnitude. Read more

Poachers killing tigers for money are back with vengeance with seizure of at-least seven tiger skins and over 160 kilogram of tiger bones in the Tibet-Nepal border hinting at revival of the popular smuggling route into China. Read more

Hindu or Islamic terror creates ripples but wildlife terror remains low on public radar, a paradox difficult to digest. Read more

As smog covered Delhi’s weather and viral hit the city, one good news emerged from the government raising hope for a cleaner and better India in future which otherwise looks bleak in pursuit of highly polluting economic growth numbers. Read more

With a United Nations report saying this week that the world is straying away from commitments to combat climate change, there will be renewed pressure on China and India to check its growing global warming causing carbon emissions at the global conference of 200 countries at Doha, Qatar to vet second commitment period for Kyoto Protocol, the existing climate treaty. Read more

The flipside of high economic growth is its impact on environment, rarely recognized in our country. Read more

Leave aside rest of the world, the fortnight long conference of around 184 countries failed to even enthuse locals even in the cyber city of Hyderabad, where it was held. Read more

Indian wildlife has never been under such a threat as it is now. The first nine months of this year has witnessed 69 tiger, 242 leopard and 30 rhino deaths, unprecedented in the past 15 years or so, for which data is available. Around 60 % of these deaths were related to poaching or man-animal conflict. Read more

Arctic ice being lowest since 1979 spells doom for climate conservationists but give new economic avenues for the developed world. Read more

Decoding the Supreme Court’s order banning tourism activity in core area of tiger reserves shows that the court’s intention was to have zones inviolate from human interference to protect tigers. Read more