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Chinese study reveals large solar farms cause 'inferior greening,' harming biodiversity and bird species, recommending desert placement for future projects.
Leaders and ecologists urge Supreme Court panel to extend deadline for Aravalli review, citing inadequate assessment of mining impact on communities and environment.
India's first river interlinking project, Ken-Betwa Link, addresses Bundelkhand's water scarcity, providing irrigation, drinking water, and power, while managing environmental and social impacts.
Supreme Court's Vanashakti verdict clarifies mandatory prior Environmental Clearance, allowing government to frame a new statutory mechanism for legacy violations with strict safeguards.
Supreme Court extends its 10-km mining buffer rule, initially for Asan Wetland, to all Ramsar wetland conservation reserves nationwide.
NBWL panel approves Panna-Ranipur hydropower project in critical tiger corridor despite DFO's red flags, with conditions for mitigation measures.
Supreme Court sets aside blanket post-facto environmental clearances, allowing narrowly tailored amnesty schemes in public interest, balancing ecology and development.
Supreme Court's order on post-facto environmental clearances undermines India's EIA regime, converting environmental harm into a mere financial transaction, critics warn.
Supreme Court strikes down Centre's 2021 order on retrospective environmental clearance, affirming government's power to grant exceptions under 1986 Act for public interest.
Supreme Court quashes 2021 OM, barring 'retrospective' environmental clearances and asserting administrative instructions cannot alter environmental checks.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh champions Rs 81,000 crore Great Nicobar project as vital for India's Indo-Pacific maritime security, countering ecological disaster warnings.
Citizens in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra fiercely oppose mega data centers, fearing critical water shortages, ecological destruction, and minimal local employment benefits.
Congress MP Jairam Ramesh exposes Great Nicobar project as a commercial real estate scheme, not strategic, threatening Shompen tribe and pristine ecology.
Methane burst at NHPC's Teesta-VI hydroelectric tunnel in Sikkim traps 25 workers, killing 15, sparking urgent calls for safety review and environmental compliance.
Ken-Betwa river linking project, a Rs 44,605-crore mega-project, sparks fierce protests over flawed rehabilitation and displacement of 2,000 families in Bundelkhand.
India's rarest white-bellied heron faces silent extinction as 1,200-MW Lohit River dam project proceeds despite flawed EIA and local opposition.
MoEFCC committee approves Rungta Sons' coal project in Odisha's Angul, permitting felling of 3.31 lakh trees, impacting 350 villages under Forest Act.
Wayanad tunnel project landslide kills three, seven missing, days after District Collector's ignored warning on hazardous soil accumulation.
Directorate seeks crucial environmental clearance for convention centre, museum at ecologically sensitive Indira Point, Great Nicobar, raising CRZ concerns for India's southernmost tip.
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