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For reasons I cannot quite explain, there are two things I remember distinctly about 1984 even though I was only in my early teens then. The first is a visit to my grandmother’s in Calcutta (now Kolkata) for our annual Diwali sojourn. The annual, sometimes biannual, train journey across the (…)
Government claims legislation is needed to fight climate change, but conservationists say it could accelerate deforestation
Conservation scientists fear more than one-quarter of forests in India could lose legal protection under controversial legislation that the nation’s Parliament could (…)
There’s so much fanfare around green hydrogen in the ruling establishment and among clean energy hawks, but what is being missed is the problems associated with hydrogen being treated as an alternative to fossil fuels and the viability of the process involved in obtaining green hydrogen. (…)
On the 36th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas leak tragedy, the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghthan (BGPMUS) and Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti (BGPSSS) have issued a statement highlighting the struggle for justice which the gas victims have been relentlessly waging for the past (…)
Public Statement on the Vishakapatnam LG Polymers Plant Gas Leak Accident of 7 May 2020 by Coalition for Environmental Justice in India.
The early morning leak of a deadly gas from L G Polymers plant located west of Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on 7th May, is frighteningly reminiscent of (…)
Deaths due to heat waves in India are usually reported as class- and gender-neutral numbers, hiding the irony of global warming that those least responsible for it are affected the most by it.
This article was originally published on June 24, 2016, and has been republished in light of the (…)
In a district ruled by a powerful sand mining mafia, police booked two journalists as spies and detained local reporters for helping them.
New Delhi: In November of this year, journalists Arthur Bouvart and Jules Giraudat arrived in Chennai. They belong to a French organisation, Forbidden (…)
GD Agarwal had been fasting since 22 June to protest against government inaction in cleaning the river
An Indian environmental activist has died on the 111th day of a hunger strike to pressure the government to clean the Ganges river.
GD Agarwal, a former professor of environmental (…)
The attention granted to the Grand Renaissance dam in Ethiopia, costing more than $4.3bn, forming Africa’s largest hydroelectric plant and raising controversy with Egypt over access to the waters of the river Nile poses anew some questions of geopolitical economy surrounding multipurpose dam (…)
For Adivasi (indigenous people) in the Gadchiroli region of Maharashtra state, mining has brought increased militarisation and violence. Activists say that the state treats ordinary villagers opposing mining in the Surjagarh forest no different than it does the Naxalite (Maoist) rebels in the (…)
All is not well with our feathered friends, an analysis of the conservation status of birds suggests.
Of the 10,966 bird species we share this planet with, 1,469 are facing extinction, a new report has found. That is one in eight species.
The ‘State of the World’s Birds’ report assessed the (…)
If the Indian government really meant what it said by “building on our rich cultural heritage” and “participatory”, would it not seriously review why laws meant to give adivasis the self-governing space they need, are not implemented?
Forests have been the cultural and livelihood lifeline for (…)
Louis Mendee explains the real human costs of climate change for the global south.
‘…it is clear that such a change [in climate] would have vastly different impacts in various regions of the world. There would be winners, and there would be losers. A climate change could be the cause of a (…)
As the storm that was hurricane Harvey deluged the areas around Houston , Texas, large parts of northern India, Nepal and Bangladesh also experienced heavy rains .
And the city of Mumbai was hit by another major flooding espisode . Several people have died in the city, many in the collapse of (…)
Movement to retrieve rivers says State can be self-sufficient in water if sources are managed properly.
With 17 big rivers and 99 small rivers, the State which had suffered the worst drought in 2016-17, could be water self-sufficient if its resources are managed properly.
Raising the point (…)
On the night of December 2, 1984, unknown poisonous gases (released by the runaway reaction of water with methyl isocyanate, or MIC) burst out from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located in a densely populated, working poor vicinity of the city of Bhopal in central India. The plant, scheduled (…)
For the survivors of the Bhopal gas leak, today, Human Rights Day, is yet another day to confront the myriad wrongs of thirty years of corporate criminality and apathetic governance.
On 3 December 1984, tonnes of lethal methyl isocyanate (MIC) and other chemicals leaked from the factory of the (…)
A selection of commentary and articles in the media by the South Asia Citizens Wire.
Bhopal’s Deadly Legacy
The New York Times, December 4, 2014
by The Editorial Board
It’s been called the worst industrial accident in history, and it’s not over. Thirty years ago, during the wee hours of (…)
Nobody has made a greater contribution to building such a grassroots movement than Medha Patkar who turns 60 on December 1st. Patkar is best known globally as the leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, one of the world’s greatest ecological mass mobilisations. She is also the founder of the (…)
PRESS RELEASE
DATE: 30 October 2014
We, activists of Gujarat oppose ‘Statue of Unity’ because it is in fact a ‘Statue for Tourism Industries’, a ‘Statue for Narendra Modi’s Name and Fame’ and ‘Statue for Criminal Waste of Public Money’.
Not a ‘Statue of Unity’ but a ‘Statue of Disunity’ (…)
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