Environment

Articles on environment, largely focussed on India, published on The India Forum.

Book
Book Review

Speaking for Nature’s Spokespersons

The early environmentalists featured in ‘Speaking with Nature’ offer insights crucial for restoring our connection with nature. Modern India must embrace these insights to avert the looming…
▶10-Mar-2025
Ashish Kothari
Book
Book Review

How Humans Ravaged the Earth—And Themselves Too

Sunil Amrith's "The Burning Earth" is 'history as literature and history as social science, and occasionally, history as natural history as well. It blends and brings together…
▶24-Feb-2025
Ramachandra Guha

Does a Data Deficit Discourse Surround Fears over China's Brahmaputra Hydro Project?

Available data does not establish that China’s mega-dam project on the Brahmaputra could divert water, alter flows, or trap sediments . The real risk is dam failure due to high seismic activity and…
▶18-Feb-2025
Nilanjan Ghosh, Sayanangshu Modak

Counting the Environmental Costs of AI

Ahead of the AI Action summit in Paris earlier this week, civil society groups raised the environmental costs of artificial intelligence.
▶11-Feb-2025
Adam Smith

What the Donald Trump Presidency Implies for Climate Change

Trump’s promised actions to reverse many US policies to combat climate change – some of which he has already carried out – will not only cause damage to the US and its people but will also weaken…
▶25-Jan-2025
Nagraj Adve
Book
Book Review

Living with Elephants

Conservation efforts largely ignore landscapes where people and animals share the same habitat and conflict with each other. Making sense of life in such environments and easing tensions requires…
▶09-Jan-2025
Ambika Aiyadurai

Will the Traffic for the Proposed Great Nicobar Port Justify its Rs 36,000-crore Cost?

The distance of the proposed port in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the Indian mainland and competition from the Colombo and Singapore ports will be major challenges to its economic viability.
▶06-Jan-2025
Vaishnavi Rathore

At COP29, Developing Countries Were Betrayed. Global Climate Action Has Been Jeopardised

The COP29 climate talks in Baku, billed as the finance COP, ended in disappointment for developing countries. It fell short of providing the financial support needed to transition from fossil fuels,…
▶16-Dec-2024
Harjeet Singh

Restoring India’s Rivers: European Experiences and Challenges

While structural differences exist between the European and Indian river basin management systems as in the hydroclimatic conditions and the social-political context, understanding the European…
▶16-Dec-2024
Debarshee Dasgupta, Subia Ahmad

Tiger-Human Conflict around Tadoba-Andhari Reserve of Maharashtra

Chandrapur district in Maharashtra is at the epicentre of human-tiger conflicts. Conflicts and fatalities are rising. The mental health of residents in the area has been severely impacted, with fear…
▶02-Dec-2024
Arathi Menon