Tag: nature

Conflict of interest in Central Empowered Committee may compromise FCAA cases: Retired bureaucrats write to CJI

A group of 60 former civil servants has written to the Chief Justice of India, claiming that a “conflict of interest” in the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) could compromise the outcome of cases challenging the Forest Conservation Amendment Act, 2023. In their open letter dated June 30, the signatories, including former secretaries, ambassadors,… Read More Conflict of interest in Central Empowered Committee may compromise FCAA cases: Retired bureaucrats write to CJI

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Rare event breathes life back into Australia’s arid outback, attracting both animals and tourists

By Angus Watson It appears in satellite pictures like great blotches of blue and green ink; swirling, spreading, sinking into parchment paper. In Australia’s arid center, those blotches represent a new inland sea, born from a deluge that has traveled hundreds of miles through the veins of a giant, parched continent. The rare event is now… Read More Rare event breathes life back into Australia’s arid outback, attracting both animals and tourists

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Grassroots activists who fought corruption & corporate power share environmental prize

Seven winners of environmental prize include Amazonian river campaigner and Tunisian who fought against organised waste trafficking Nina Lakhani Grassroots activists who helped jail corrupt officials and obtain personhood rights for a sacred Amazonian river are among this year’s winners of the world’s most prestigious environmental prize. The community campaigns led by the seven 2025… Read More Grassroots activists who fought corruption & corporate power share environmental prize

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Fury as US argues against climate obligations at top UN court

The current UN climate change regime “embodies the clearest, most specific, and the most current expression of states’ consent to be bound by international law in respect of climate change”, Margaret Taylor, legal adviser at the state department, told the ICJ judges on Wednesday. “Any other legal obligations relating to climate change mitigation identified by… Read More Fury as US argues against climate obligations at top UN court

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How the invasive water hyacinth is helping build livelihoods – with an ecological bonus

Shweta Thakur Nanda Moromi Hazowary of Kamrup district in Assam had clear aspirations – a stable life and a desire to give her son a better education. It is not a stroke of luck, but an invasive weed – water hyacinth – that is turning her hopes into reality. The 32-year-old’s family was dependent on… Read More How the invasive water hyacinth is helping build livelihoods – with an ecological bonus

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Certainty

Even if our brains are not up to the task of appreciating all the connections that relate to quality of air, water, nutrients, soils, etc., these things are still vitally important. In other words, we would be tragically foolish to imagine living without insects, plankton, microbes, fish, birds, etc., and the uncountable and unknowable interrelationships between… Read More Certainty

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