Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Environmentalists have termed the Jammu and Kashmir disaster as a “grim reminder of increasing impact of climate change in India” and warned of more such extreme rainfall events in the years to come. Pointing towards the recent extreme events to impact the country — Uttarakhand flash floods (2013), Leh cloudburst …
Environmental think tank the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Wednesday blamed the flood crisis on badly planned development, mismanagement of the drainage system and an abject lack of disaster preparedness. Its director-general Sunita Narain said here the sudden massive rainfall event over Srinagar fit in to the growing …
High iron railings on the central verge forcing the pedestrians to use the foot over-bridge (FOB), which is equipped with escalators on either side, seems to have made the FOB outside the Kashmere Gate Inter-State Bus Terminal one of the few pedestrian facilities in the Capital which are serving the …
Say Vehicles Can Be Useful As Paratransit Mode, But Need To Be Regulated Environmentalists and public transport experts are relieved that the Centre has proposed draft guidelines to regulate e-rickshaws under the Motor Vehicles Act. E-rickshaws may have been in the news for all the wrong reasons, but many believe …
Environmentalist and writer Sunita Narain on Wednesday said parking charges should be on a par with the real estate prices in the area. "Why should parking be so cheap or free? Can we run offices like that," she asked while addressing a lecture organised by Transparent Chennai, a city-based non-governmental …
NAGPUR: National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a statutory body under the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change, has announced Rs 860 per month ration allowance to frontline staff of tiger reserves and its buffer. "A notification in this regard has been issued a few days ago by NTCA …
The government's recent report announcing an increase in forest cover looks more like a case of the state agency playing the slippery slope of statistics. Wednesday's landslide in Maharashtra's Ambegaon and last year's flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand may in reality indicate a trend likely to recur across the …
Without public transport, Delhi may never be able to address its twin problems of air pollution and traffic congestion. But it has failed to meet its massive demand for buses simply because there aren't enough depots. Millennium Park Bus Depot where 800 buses are parked will be moved in the …
Finding parking space in Delhi is like a treasure hunt. The growing number of cars has led to a scramble for vacant slots and frayed nerves. Rajinder Bhatia's death in west Patel Nagar underlines a larger issue and a crime pattern that needs a closer look. According to a study …
Smart is as smart does. The government's proposal to build 100 "smart" cities will work only if it can reinvent the very idea of urban growth in a country such as India. Smart thinking will require the government to not only copy the model cities of the already developed Western …
The research and advocacy organisation Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has called for a ban on junk food in schools and the regulation of advertisements promoting its consumption. Children are not the best judges of their food and they are aggressively targeted by advertisements and attracted by celebrity endorsements, …
If it is serious about phasing out ozone-depleting gases by 2030, India needs to evolve a clear stand against persisting with those that have global warming potential and evaluate environmentally-friendly technologies. This is easier said than done as both the Indian government and the industry are hesitant to make some …
Sixty people died in a building collapse in Chennai earlier this month. There is much more than the municipal incompetence that needs to be fixed to avoid such tragic incidents. This building was located on the Porur lake, a water body that provides services, such as groundwater recharge and flood …
Various trade unions and social organisations, including the RSS-backed Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), criticised the first Budget of the Narendra Modi Government. They said the Budget failed to give any new prescriptions for the burgeoning problems of the country. The BMS, though expressing overall satisfaction with the Budget’s direction, condemned …
An environment think tank today said although the union budget had "many nice words and some money" but it failed to show any direction for "real change." Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said although the announcement of national adaption fund a first step to recognise the need to invest …
- Less for research, more for security The 2014-15 Union budget outlays for scientific research reflect marginal jumps over allocations last year with atomic energy, space, biotechnology and earth sciences among agencies earmarked hikes less than even the average inflation rate of 8 per cent. Finance minister Arun Jaitley said …
Mr Jaitley has fallen into the old trap of financing meaningless cleaning initiatives Listening to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Union Budget 2014 seemed to be a little bit of everything and lots of nothing. It is also difficult to pass a verdict on a government that has had barely 45 …
The city roads have pushed pedestrians, cyclists and even public transport users to the edge. Anybody not in a car has to constantly battle to get by without a scratch on certain roads. A safety audit by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) reveals the extent of risk faced …
LUCKNOW: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) discussed the role mini-grids have to play to eradicate energy poverty in the country and proposed a model to ensure at least 12 hours of electricity to every household per day at a workshop on "Sustainable Mini-Grid for Energy Access" in Delhi. There …
DEBATES YATRA‘A disaster needs to be prevented’ Welcome to this edition of Rising Kashmir Debates. In this edition we will be discussing Amarnath Yatra and Its Impact on Environment. This year also there are concerns about Amaranth Yatra and the environment. Newspaper articles, views expressed by different political parties and …
