Climate Change and Reproductive Heath
The impacts of global warming and climate change are worldwide. The World Health Organisation estimates that the warming and precipitation trends due to anthropogenic climate change of the past 30 years already claim over 1,50,000 lives annually. And the direct...
Climate Change and Solid Waste Management
Currently climate change is big burning issue in all over the world. It is one of the most important global environmental challenges in front of the world. Each sector like food production, water, health, energy is affected by climate change. Rapidly growth of...
AIR POLLUTION-Reality or Imagination
Air pollution occurs when gases, dust particles, fumes (or smoke) or odor are introduced into the atmosphere in a way that makes it harmful to humans, animals and plant. This is because the air becomes dirty (contaminated or unclean). During our work in the field, we...
Climate Change: Implication for Agriculture
Introduction Climate change has been a natural phenomenon in the geological history as corroborated by paleontological, limnological and stratigraphical evidence, once in every few million years, (the impacts of climate change too were spread over few million years)...
UNEARTH – The Viewsletter – Issue 3
UNEARTH- The Viewsletter June 2017 Issue 3 From the Managing Trustee Desk Dear Readers, In the past few months I have been having a very big carbon footprint as Environics is taking more responsibilities for the Asian and Global Networks of which we have members. The...
UNEARTH – The viewsletter – Issue 2
UNEARTH – The Viewsletter is a monthly newsletter of Environics Trust. This is an effort to make everyone aware about the work being done by us, the voices of the communities we work with, the issues and all the other stories we come across. IN THIS ISSUE From the...
Beyond Coal in India
In late August, millions of poor Indians rejoiced on a Supreme Court judgement on the allocation of coal blocks. It was further hoping that the subsequent order which categorically held all, except four, to be illegal. It was a reprieve from a forced displacement,...
Establishing Rights over Community Forest Resources in Himachal Pradesh
Establishing Community Forest Rights has been taken up as a process which makes communities understand the importance and collective assessment of their dependence on resources surrounding them. Over this year the process has moved deep into the communities in six...
Community Issues in Coal Belts
A short descriptive report on Barddhaman District outlining areas of public health and indicators of health, nutrition and environmental pollution, MDGs. A blog www.alongtheburntcoalcorridor.wordpress.com elaborates more on specific issues of health and education. 1....
District Mineral Foundation
District Mineral Foundation (DMF) as an institution for the welfare of people, under MMDR (Amendment) Act 2015came into being which under which the miners have to contribute 10% of proportionate royalty in addition to the royalty on minerals for leases issued after...
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