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A Day Of Action Against Plastics
By 2050, we will have more plastics than fish in the oceans. This piece of information is a loud warning to the global community to start taking drastic steps towards…
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Hold the culprits accountable, not the victims
Since production and marketing of GM food crop seeds are illegal in our country, we expect that the MoEFCC and Ministry of Agriculture will take all required steps to ensure that the real culprits are booked and our farmers don't get trapped by the suspected illegal seed racketeers anymore.
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Recommendations to the Manifesto Committees of Political Parties contesting in Lok Sabha General Elections, 2019
Strong leadership to solve India’s growing environmental crisis NOTE on Energy, Agriculture & Environment: “Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be…
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Attempt to Murder Gurgaon
Gurgaon is one of the most polluted cities in India, with only 3 days of clean air in 2018. Now a new amendment will make 20,000 acres of Aravalli forest in Gurgaon and Faridabad open for construction. Why?
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Shut-up or Shut-down: The new ‘Law of the Land’
If, to be put on trial for speaking out for equality and justice is a crime, the society needs some serious introspection. The way the voice of Greenpeace India has…
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NCAP must have sectoral targets & interim milestones; says Greenpeace India
NCAP announcement will be a big achievement since not a single monitored location in the country complies with safe limits prescribed by WHO for air pollution and more than 80% locations registering pollution levels beyond Indian standards, making air pollution a national health emergency.
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Analysis on Khurja supercritical thermal power plant proves solar will be a better investment
New Delhi| December 13, 2018 | New coal power plants in regions such as Uttar Pradesh, in close proximity to heavily polluted Delhi-NCR are financially risky, unnecessary and pose a…
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With air pollution becoming a health emergency, shouldn’t India transition faster from coal to renewables?
According to WHO report released this year, air pollution is one of the leading threats to child health, accounting for almost 1 in 10 deaths in children under five years…
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You cannot muzzle dissent in a democracy
10th December 2018 marked 70 years since United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights which includes the right to freedom of speech, stating that “Everyone has the right to freedom…
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Bihar Living Soils Yatra – notes from the ground
Day 1: Nov 20, 2018 We started the Living Soils Yatra from Patna at 8.30 AM and reached Sakraul village, Nalanda where Bihar agriculture department had organised Kisan Chaupal (community…