Environmental Damage
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Deluge of sand and silt from Sikkim flood destroys farming, fishing downstream of Teesta river
Fish stocks have depleted due to water contamination while crops are struggling to grow in the river basin in North Bengal due to the altered landscape.
Arunima Kar
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Manipur: Heavy fuel from power plant leaks into streams that meet Imphal River
Videos on social media showed the water body catching fire in some places.
Scroll Staff
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Joshimath continues to sink as the government plows ahead with giant projects
The Himalayan town is an exception with most residents wanting to stay on instead of migrating out. Rendering their homes inhabitable cannot be ‘development’.
Shruti Jain
Trending
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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How the high demand for coaching classes reflects India’s employment and economic distress
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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A decade after the devastating Kedarnath floods, is the fragile region any safer?
The August 4 landslide that hit the pilgrimage route is a fresh reminder of the area’s vulnerability.
Sandhya Agrawal & Aniket Singh Chauhan
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Mount Everest: As mass mountaineering peaks, it is time to reckon with its environmental impacts
May 29 will mark 70 years since Mount Everest was first ascended but the dangers of modern-day commercialisation and pollution may put an end climbing itself.
Yana Wengel, The Conversation, Adele Doran, The Conversation & Michal Apollo, The Conversation
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How the world’s chocolate habit has taken a massive toll on the cocoa-growing forests of West Africa
The land area devoted to cocoa is enormous – at seven million hectares of plantations – across the world’s major producing countries: Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
Wilma Hart, The Conversation
Video
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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Watch: Footballers give their jackets to young player escorts amidst heavy rain in New York City
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Caught on camera: Supermarket floor collapses, shopper falls through it
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‘Look at my wonderful costume’: Actor Anne Hathaway reacts to scenes from some of her popular movies
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Watch: Chef makes life-sized pencil and sharpener entirely from chocolate
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Crores for construction, crores for disaster relief: India’s expensive Himalayan hydropower projects
Public funds are flowing into building dams, which can stretch into decades, and to pay for the series of climate-linked disasters in the mountains.
Chandra Prabha & Ashish Fernandes
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Why gold mining is one of the most destructive and unnecessary industries
In a given year, gold mines emit more greenhouse gases than all passenger flights between European nations combined.
Stephen Lezak, The Conversation
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In Assam, new oil pipelines threaten protected forests and endangered species
Nearly 3,000 trees are to be felled during the construction of oil and gas pipelines in North East India.
Gurvinder Singh
The Reel
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‘Patna Shuklla’ review: A competently argued legal drama
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‘Inspector Rishi’ review: A superbly crafted battle between fact and fable
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‘Alibaba Aani Chalishitle Chor’ review: A lightweight study of modern marriage
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic
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SC panel holds ex-Uttarakhand minister responsible for illegal construction in Corbett Tiger Reserve
Over 6,000 trees were illegally cut by the state government in the Corbett Tiger Reserve for the project when Harak Singh Rawat was the forest minister.
Scroll Staff
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‘Pristine habitat’: 87 ex-bureaucrats ask President Droupadi Murmu to halt Great Nicobar project
The project involves the construction of a Rs 35,000-crore trans-shipment port, an international airport, a power plant, a township and tourism infrastructure.
Scroll Staff
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Joshimath crisis: Multi-disciplinary expert team to recommend measures, says PMO
Two petitions have also been filed in the Supreme Court and the Delhi HC on the cracks that have developed in several homes of the town due to land subsidence.
Scroll Staff
The Field
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Badminton, Spain Masters Super 300: Crasto-Ponnappa, Sindhu move into quarter-finals in Madrid
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IPL 2024: Riyan Parag, bowlers set up win for Rajasthan Royals against Delhi Capitals
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IPL 2024: KKR bring in Allah Ghazanfar as replacement player; RR rope in Keshav Maharaj
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Athletics: Neeraj Chopra to open his 2024 season at Doha Diamond League in May
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Badminton, Spain Masters Super 300: PV Sindhu wins opening match; Indian men’s singles campaign ends