There are 48 mapped struggles against the fossil fuel industry in India And whilst families run from justice for trying to protect their lands, it's the coal mining companies and police chiefs that should be brought to justice writes NICK MEYNEN
… India's coal war heats up Nick Meynen | 13th October 2016 News India Mining Coal Conflict Environmental Justice Refugees india coal.jpg There are 48 mapped struggles …
Global outcry as India’s Supreme Court threatens to evict over a million vulnerable people from forest under the guise of protecting wildlife.
… Indigenous Indian people face forest eviction Nick Meynen … Fanari EnvJustice | 10th April 2019 News India Tigers Forest Tribal Peoples Indigenous … Thought Leaders Bengal Tiger Global outcry as India’s Supreme Court threatens to evict over …
The Sardar Sarovar Dam in India is already one of the world’s most controversial. With last month’s decision to forcibly displace another 40,000 families without proper relocation and compensation, Indian authorities seem eager to make it the worst dam ever. But an increasingly publicised hunger strike is putting pressure on India's prime minister, reports NICK MEYNEN
… Indian authorities accused of 'drowning the … families' Nick Meynen | 8th August 2017 News India Modi Dam Flooding Displaced Greenpeace … in water 2 (1).jpg The Sardar Sarovar Dam in India is already one of the world’s most …
The lockdown from one pandemic is being used in India to pave the way for the next, with a controversial plan to clear extremely valuable forests.
… Roy Nick Meynen | 27th May 2020 News Pandemic India Forest Biodiversity Hydropower dibang … lockdown from one pandemic is being used in India to pave the way for the next, with a … is very remote, even for the standards of India's most Northeastern state. These …
A crucial component of concrete, sand is vital to the global construction industry, writes Nick Meynen. China alone is importing a billion tonnes of sand a year, and its increasing scarcity is leading to large scale illegal mining and deadly conflicts. With ever more sand fetched from riverbeds, shorelines and sandbanks, roads and bridges are being undermined and beaches eroded. And the world's sand wars are only set to worsen.
… Meynen | 9th May 2017 News Mining Ecocide War India China Singapore Sri Lanka Dubai Cities … to deadly conflicts. The sand mafia in India Sumaira Abdulali, 55, is now a public figure in India. The media call her the 'Minister of …
Reporting from The 5th International Degrowth Conference in Budapest - which continues today and tomorrow - NICK MEYNEN explores the new narrative of ‘sufficiency' being discussed and and asks will it catch on before it's too late?
… "easy growth" of some elites. Ashish Kothari, Indian activist and author of Churning the … He said that the focus on GDP growth in India since around 1991 "has not only not … before." He calculated that in India, in the past half century over 60 …
The building boom in China and worldwide demand for consumer goods containing ilmenite has enriched criminals who specialise in stealing sand - sometimes whole beaches. NICK MEYNEN investigates
… for a drizzle but receiving the full-blown Indian monsoon. “Soil erosion, landslides, … people were killed over sand extraction, in India alone. Contrary to our intuition, useful … consumer goods to paint to paper to plastics. India has 35 percent of all ilmenite. Going to …
Agricultural pests - viruses, bacteria, fungi, blights, mildews, rusts, beetles, nematodes, flies, mites, spiders and caterpillars - are spreading thanks to trade, travel and global warming, writes Tim Radford. The world faces a dire future of increased crop losses and growing insecurity.
… their home there. Australia, China, France, India, Italy, the UK and the USA already had … in western Europe and the US, and Japan, India and China will face saturation point. … originates. Australia, China, France, India, Italy, the UK and the USA already had …
Levels of CO2 are at their the highest in 800,000 years, writes Tim Radford, but news of a probable decline in emissions this year is providing welcome cheer at the COP21 climate summit: thanks to renewables, economic growth and falling emissions can go hand in hand.
… global emissions, the US 15%, the EU 10% and India 7%. But in terms of energy emissions per … China 7.1 tonnes, the EU 6.8 tonnes, and India 2 tonnes. "The most promising finding in …
Multinationals may be powerful, but so is a rising multinational movement busy with resisting to environmental injustices.
… resisting to environmental injustices. Two Indian people visit St Paul’s Cathedral in … their home province of Odisha, India to draw attention to a strikingly … gods. The key difference was that for the Indian campaigners, their holiest place is …
New research warns that rising temperatures will reduce the mountain snow in 97 major river basins worldwide, writes Tim Radford - cutting summer water supply to 2 billion people in lowland areas who depend on the meltwaters.
… Asia. There may be no real change for India's Indus and Ganges basins, which are …
Increasing use of air conditioners to stay cool is making entire cities warmers in a 'vicious circle' of increasing energy use and discomfort, writes Tim Radford.
… air conditioning is expected to accelerate in India, China and other emerging economies . - …
Conventional economic analyses of trade tend only to discern the flows of money, writes NICK MEYNEN. But by also considering biophysical metrics - such as material and energy flows, and embodied water and land - ecological economists can identify the asymmetric flows of resources obscured by the apparent reciprocity of market prices.
… environmental conflicts: a comparison between India and Latin America (will be online later …
On 10 January 2017 a new emergency plan was presented in a commission in Belgium's Parliament. The evacuation perimeter was conveniently halved to 10km to avoid an evacuation of Belgium's second and third cities in case of a meltdown. The plan has been called totally inadequate. NICK MEYNEN reports
… are popping up outside Europe as well: from India to Japan . So are the conflicts and …